A year after one of the most infamous Oscar awards to date, a champagne-coloured carpet welcomed back stars to the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday.
After late-night entertainer Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue created a buzz, two veterans — Ke Huy Quan (supporting actor) and Jamie Lee Curtis (supporting actress) of the sci-fi adventure Everything Everywhere All at Once— accepted their awards in speeches that brought cheers and tears.
Canadians pick up awards
But Canadians also made their mark.
Toronto filmmaker and screenwriter Sarah Polley won for adapted screenplay for Women Talking.
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First of all, I want to thank the academy for not being mortally offended by the words ‘women’ and ‘talking’ so close together like that,” she said on the Oscars stage.
Women Talking is a tense drama based on Canadian Miriam Toews’s novel by the same name.
Toronto filmmaker Daniel Roher won best documentary for his work in Navalny. It revolves around the 2020 assassination attempt on Alexei Navalny and events leading to the now-imprisoned Russian opposition leader’s poisoning. Later, director James Cameron’s sequel Avatar: The Way of Water won the Oscar for special effects.
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Earlier in the evening, Montreal makeup artist Adrien Morot and team picked up an award for makeup and hairstyling for their work on The Whale.
Everything Everywhere All at Once wins early
The Oscar for Quan is his latest honour during a comeback year. The former child star appeared in Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom and The Goonies some 40 years ago.
“They say stories like this only happen in the movies,” he said. “I cannot believe it’s happening to me. This is the American dream.”
In accepting her award, Curtis mentioned her late parents, Oscar-nominated Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis.
Kimmel returned as host for the third time, as the first solo emcee in five years. His monologue Sunday touched on the lack of women in the director category and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “crisis team” to avoid any violence on stage.
“The academy has a crisis team in place and if anything unpredictable or violent happens during the ceremony, just do what you did last year. Nothing. Just sit there and do absolutely nothing. Maybe even give the assailant a hug.”
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The first award of the evening went to Guillermo del Toro, in the best animated feature category for Pinocchio.
“Animation is cinema. Animation is not a genre. Animation is ready to be taken to the next step … we’re all ready for it,” del Toro said on stage.
Canadians also vying for an Academy Award include Canadian director Sarah Polley for Women Talking in the adapted screenplay and best-picture categories, and Brendan Fraser for best actor in The Whale.
Ke Huy Quan won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Everything Everywhere All at Once. (Getty Images)
Mind-bending metaverse movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, a big favourite,came into the evening with a leading 11 nominations, including for best picture, Michelle Yeoh for actress in a leading role, Curtis and Stephanie Hsu for actress in a supporting role, and Quan.
CBC News is updating this story with all the winners (shown in bold) throughout the evening.
Best animated feature:
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The Sea Beast. Turning Red
Best supporting actor:
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway.
Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans.
Brendan Gleeson, Banshees on Inisherin.
Barry Keoghan, Banshees of Inisherin.
Best supporting actress:
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Hong Chau, The Whale.
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin.
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Documentary feature:
Navalny. All That Breathes. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. Fire of Love. A House Made of Splinters.
Live action short:
An Irish Goodbye. Ivalu. Le Pupille. Night Ride. The Red Suitcase.
Cinematography:
James Friend, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Darius Khondj, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.
Mandy Walker, Elvis.
Roger Deakins, Empire of Light.
Florian Hoffmeister, Tár.
Makeup and hairstyling:
The Whale. All Quiet on the Western Front. The Batman. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Elvis.
Costume design:
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Babylon. Elvis. Everything Everywhere All at Once. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.
International feature film:
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany). Argentina, 1985 (Argentina). Close (Belgium). EO (Poland). The Quiet Girl (Ireland).
Documentary short film:
The Elephant Whisperers. Haulout. How Do You Measure a Year?. The Martha Mitchell Effect. Stranger at the Gate.
Animated short film:
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. The Flying Sailor. Ice Merchants. My Year of Dicks. An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe it.
Production design:
All Quiet on the Western Front. Avatar: The Way of Water. Babylon. Elvis. The Fabelmans.
Original score:
Volker Bertelmann, All Quiet on the Western Front.
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon.
Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin.
Son Lux, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
John Williams, The Fabelmans.
Visual effects:
Avatar: The Way of Water. Top Gun: Maverick. The Batman. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. All Quiet on the Western Front.
Original screenplay:
Everything Everywhere All at Once. The Banshees of Inisherin. The Fabelmans. Tár. Triangle of Sadness.
Adapted screenplay:
Women Talking. All Quiet on the Western Front. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Living. Top Gun: Maverick.
Sound:
Top Gun: Maverick. All Quiet on the Western Front. Avatar: The Way of Water. The Batman. Elvis.
Original song:
Naatu Naatu from RRR. Applause from Tell It Like a Woman. Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick. Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. This Is a Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Film editing:
Everything Everywhere All at Once. The Banshees of Inisherin Elvis. Tár. Top Gun: Maverick.
Best director:
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin.
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans.
Todd Field, Tár.
Ruben Ostlund, Triangle of Sadness.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A linebacker at Division II West Virginia State was fatally shot during what the university said Thursday is being investigated by police as a home invasion.
The body of Jyilek Zyiare Harrington, 21, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was found inside an apartment Wednesday night in Charleston, police Lt. Tony Hazelett said in a statement.
Hazelett said several gunshots were fired during a disturbance in a hallway and inside the apartment. The statement said Harrington had multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said they had no information on a possible suspect.
West Virginia State said counselors were available to students and faculty on campus.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Jyilek’s family as they mourn the loss of this incredible young man,” West Virginia State President Ericke S. Cage said in a letter to students and faculty.
Harrington, a senior, had eight total tackles, including a sack, in a 27-24 win at Barton College last week.
“Jyilek truly embodied what it means to be a student-athlete and was a leader not only on campus but in the community,” West Virginia State Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics Nate Burton said. “Jyilek was a young man that, during Christmas, would create a GoFundMe to help less fortunate families.”
Burton said donations to a fund established by the athletic department in Harrington’s memory will be distributed to an organization in Charlotte to continue his charity work.
West Virginia State’s home opener against Carson-Newman, originally scheduled for Thursday night, has been rescheduled to Friday, and a private vigil involving both teams was set for Thursday night. Harrington previously attended Carson-Newman, where he made seven tackles in six games last season. He began his college career at Division II Erskine College.
“Carson-Newman joins West Virginia State in mourning the untimely passing of former student-athlete Jyilek Harrington,” Carson-Newman Vice President of Athletics Matt Pope said in a statement. “The Harrington family and the Yellow Jackets’ campus community is in our prayers. News like this is sad to hear anytime, but today it feels worse with two teams who knew him coming together to play.”
DETROIT (AP) — Joe Schmidt, the Hall of Fame linebacker who helped the Detroit Lions win NFL championships in 1953 and 1957 and later coached the team, has died. He was 92.
The Lions said family informed the team Schmidt died Wednesday. A cause of death was not provided.
One of pro football’s first great middle linebackers, Schmidt played his entire NFL career with the Lions from 1953-65. An eight-time All-Pro, he was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1973 and the college football version in 2000.
“Joe likes to say that at one point in his career, he was 6-3, but he had tackled so many fullbacks that it drove his neck into his shoulders and now he is 6-foot,” said the late Lions owner William Clay Ford, Schmidt’s presenter at his Hall of Fame induction in 1973. “At any rate, he was listed at 6-feet and as I say was marginal for that position. There are, however, qualities that certainly scouts or anybody who is drafting a ballplayer cannot measure.”
Born in Pittsburgh, Schmidt played college football in his hometown at Pitt, beginning his stint there as a fullback and guard before coach Len Casanova switched him to linebacker.
“Pitt provided me with the opportunity to do what I’ve wanted to do, and further myself through my athletic abilities,” Schmidt said. “Everything I have stemmed from that opportunity.”
Schmidt dealt with injuries throughout his college career and was drafted by the Lions in the seventh round in 1953. As defenses evolved in that era, Schmidt’s speed, savvy and tackling ability made him a valuable part of some of the franchise’s greatest teams.
Schmidt was elected to the Pro Bowl 10 straight years from 1955-64, and after his arrival, the Lions won the last two of their three NFL titles in the 1950s.
In a 1957 playoff game at San Francisco, the Lions trailed 27-7 in the third quarter before rallying to win 31-27. That was the NFL’s largest comeback in postseason history until Buffalo rallied from a 32-point deficit to beat Houston in 1993.
“We just decided to go after them, blitz them almost every down,” Schmidt recalled. “We had nothing to lose. When you’re up against it, you let both barrels fly.”
Schmidt became an assistant coach after wrapping up his career as a player. He was Detroit’s head coach from 1967-72, going 43-35-7.
Schmidt was part of the NFL’s All-Time Team revealed in 2019 to celebrate the league’s centennial season. Of course, he’d gone into the Hall of Fame 46 years earlier.
Not bad for an undersized seventh-round draft pick.
“It was a dream of mine to play football,” Schmidt told the Detroit Free Press in 2017. “I had so many people tell me that I was too small. That I couldn’t play. I had so many negative people say negative things about me … that it makes you feel good inside. I said, ‘OK, I’ll prove it to you.’”
VICTORIA – British Columbia‘s Environment Assessment Office has fined Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd. $590,000 for “deficiencies” in the construction of its pipeline crossing the province.
The office says in a statement that 10 administrative penalties have been levied against the company for non-compliance with requirements of its environmental assessment certificate.
It says the fines come after problems with erosion and sediment control measures were identified by enforcement officers along the pipeline route across northern B.C. in April and May 2023.
The office says that the latest financial penalties reflect its escalation of enforcement due to repeated non-compliance of its requirements.
Four previous penalties have been issued for failing to control erosion and sediment valued at almost $800,000, while a fifth fine of $6,000 was handed out for providing false or misleading information.
The office says it prioritized its inspections along the 670-kilometre route by air and ground as a result of the continued concerns, leading to 59 warnings and 13 stop-work orders along the pipeline that has now been completed.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2024.
