The 95th Academy Awards a.k.a the 2023 Oscars began with a stunning champagne carpet as some of the world’s biggest stars — hoping to be winners on the night — walked in glittery style.
All Quiet on the Western Front received four Oscars, including Best International Feature Film, Original Score, Best Production Design and Best Cinematography; however, the biggest honour of the night went to Everything Everywhere All at Once, taking out Best Picture.
Here’s a rundown of everything that happened at the 2023 Oscars!
Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue
Inside the Dolby Theatre, host Jimmy Kimmel took aim at James Cameron, saying the show is so long that even he didn’t want to sit through it before he joked about 2022’s infamous Will Smith slap.
“We want you to feel safe. We want me to feel safe,” he said. “If anyone in this theatre commits an act of violence at any point in the show, you will be awarded the Oscar for Best Actor and permitted to give a 19-minute-long speech.”
Ke Huy Quan (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) got a standing ovation from his peers for Best Supporting Actor in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Quan revealed that his 84-year-old mum was watching from home.
“Mum, I just won an Oscar!” he said before adding that he was a refugee.
“Stories like this only happen in the movies, I can’t believe it’s happening to me. This is the American dream! To all of you out there, please keep your dreams alive!”
Jamie Lee Curtis took home Best Supporting Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once after 45 years in the industry.
“We just won an Oscar together,” she said, paying homage to the cast and crew. She also mentioned her parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, both Oscar nominees.
“I just won an Oscar,” she said in tears.
Navalny took home Best Documentary Feature Film
Navalny took home Best Documentary Feature Film about Russian lawyer Alexei Navalny, who is still imprisoned. His wife, Yulia Navalnaya was also on hand to accept the Oscar and spoke on behalf of her husband.
When an Irish Goodbye won the Best Live-Action Short Film award, the filmmakers, Tom Berkeley and Ross White revealed it was a “special night” because it was their lead actor James Martin’s birthday. They then led the audience in singing Happy Birthday to him. So sweet!
James Friend beat out cinematographer Emily Ward (Elvis) to win Best Cinematography for All Quiet on the Western Front. If Ward had won, she would have been the first-ever female to do so.
Before the Best Costume design was announced, Kimmel walked on stage with Jenny, the donkey from The Banshees of Inisherin, calling her an “emotional support” donkey.
Catherine Martin misses out on Oscar
Australia’s Catherine Martin missed out on the top honour for Best Costume Design to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever‘s Ruth Carter, whose mother passed away earlier in the week.
Germany won Best International Feature Film for All Quiet on the Western Front, and the Documentary Short Film went to The Elephant Whisperers by filmmakers Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga — the latter was the first Indian to ever be inducted into the Academy.
Later, Kimmel — who continued to reference Smith’s slap — said, “this point in the show makes you miss the slap a little…” before Brisbane film student Lachlan Pedragon was overlooked for Best Animated Short Film.
Hugh Grant and Andie Macdowell reunite onstage 29 years after Four Weddings and a Funeral
In the best-presenting surprise ever, Four Weddings and Funeral actors Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell reunited onstage — 29 years after the film was made — to present Best Production Design. Grant said he was “basically a scrotum” compared to an ageless MacDowell.
Elizabeth Banks presented the Best Visual Effects award while standing next to a human dressed as a bear from her film, Cocaine Bear.
She joked that without Visual Effects, “Cocaine Bear would have been an actor in a bear suit, probably on cocaine…”
Kimmel then took to the actors in the audience with “questions” from viewers, and it fell flat.
He asked Pakistani female education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai if she thought Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine and Colin Farrell what he said in The Banshees of Inisherin, referencing his Irish accent. The bear then made another appearance and Kimmel asked him to “leave Malala alone”.
Former actor Sarah Polley (Disney’s One Magic Christmas) won Best Adapted Screenplay for Women Talking, who said: “I want to thank the Academy for not being offended by the words ‘women’ and ‘talking’ so close together.”
Best Original Song went to RRR’s Naatu Naatu by M.M. Keeravaani and Chandrabose.
Keeravaani admitted that he grew up with singing icons The Carpenters and sang part of his speech to the tune of Top of the World.
Olivia Newton-John was honoured by John Travolta, Lenny Kravitz and the In Memoriam
John Travolta announced the In Memoriam with a special nod to Dame Olivia Newton-John.
“They’ve touched our hearts, they’ve made us smile, and became dear friends, who we will always remain hopelessly devoted to.”
Lenny Kravitz then performed Calling All Angels, with Newton-John the first to appear on the screen.
A sweet moment occurred when Paul Rogers won Best Editing for Everything Everywhere All at Once. After announcing it was only his second-ever film, he said: “My mum is here, and you’ll see her if she screams”. A “Woo!” came from the audience and he said: “There she is!”
Aussie Nicole Kidman presented Best Directing, alongside Brit Idris Elba, which went to Everything Everywhere All at Once directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
Scheinert thanked his parents, who he said “didn’t squash his creativity as a child” and “when I was dressing in drag, which is a threat to nobody!”
Brendan Fraser and Michelle Yeoh take home Best Actor and Best Actress
The Best Actor award went to Brendan Fraser in The Whale. He thanked his team for “throwing him a creative lifeline”.
Then, the second last award for the night went to Michelle Yeoh, who took the Best Actress gong for Everything Everywhere All at Once. It was history-making as she became the first Asian woman to win the category in the Academy Awards’ 95-year history.
“To all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight…dreams do come true. And ladies, don’t let anyone ever tell you that you are past your prime!”
Everything Everywhere All at Once wins Best Picture
Everything Everywhere All at Once took out the top honour of the evening with Best Picture. The film has swept up the awards season (a whopping 265 out of 405 nominations) and was the favourite to win the golden statue.
During the March 13 (AEST) broadcast, the film won seven of the eleven awards it was nominated for.
In a poignant moment, Harrison Ford announced the final honour and hugged his former Indiana Jones co-star Quan onstage.
The complete winner’s list at the 2023 Oscars
(*Indicates the winner.)
Best Picture
All Quiet on the Western Front — Malte Grunert, Producer
Avatar: The Way of Water — James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
The Banshees of Inisherin — Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
Elvis — Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers
*Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers
The Fabelmans — Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers
Tár — Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers
Top Gun: Maverick — Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
Triangle of Sadness — Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers
Women Talking — Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers
Best Directing
The Banshees of Inisherin — Martin McDonagh
*Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans — Steven Spielberg
Tár — Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness — Ruben Östlund
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler in Elvis
Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin
*Brendan Fraser in The Whale
Paul Mescal in Aftersun
Bill Nighy in Living
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett in Tár
Ana de Armas in Blonde
Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie
Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans
*Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway
Judd Hirsch in The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin
*Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau in The Whale
Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin
*Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Costume Design
Babylon — Mary Zophres
*Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Ruth Carter
Elvis — Catherine Martin
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Shirley Kurata
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris — Jenny Beavan
Best Sound
All Quiet on the Western Front — Viktor Prásil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte
Avatar: The Way of Water — Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges
The Batman — Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson
Elvis — David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller
*Top Gun: Maverick — Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor
Best Original Score
*All Quiet on the Western Front — Volker Bertelmann
Babylon — Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin — Carter Burwell
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Son Lux
The Fabelmans — John Williams
Best Adapted Screenplay
All Quiet on the Western Front — Screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Written by Rian Johnson
Living — Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Top Gun: Maverick — Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
Women Talking — Screenplay by Sarah Polley
Best Original Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin — Written by Martin McDonagh
*Everything Everywhere All at Once — Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans — Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
Tár — Written by Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness — Written by Ruben Östlund
Best Live-Action Short Film
*An Irish Goodbye — Tom Berkeley and Ross White
Ivalu — Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan
Le Pupille — Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón
Night Ride — Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen
The Red Suitcase — Cyrus Neshvad
Best Animated Short Film
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
The Flying Sailor — Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Ice Merchants — João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano
My Year of Dicks — Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It — Lachlan Pendragon
Best Animated Film
*Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On — Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish — Joel Crawford and Mark Swift
The Sea Beast — Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger
Turning Red — Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins
Best Original Song
Applause from Tell It Like a Woman; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick; Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
*Naatu Naatu from RRR; Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose
This Is a Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once; Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne
Best International Feature Film
*All Quiet on the Western Front — Germany
Argentina, 1985 — Argentina
Close — Belgium
EO — Poland
The Quiet Girl — Ireland
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front — Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová
The Batman — Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Camille Friend and Joel Harlow
Elvis — Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti
*The Whale — Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley
Best Production Design
*All Quiet on the Western Front — Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper
Avatar: The Way of Water — Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole
Babylon — Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
Elvis — Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn
The Fabelmans — Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
Best Cinematography
*All Quiet on the Western Front — James Friend
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths — Darius Khondji
Elvis — Mandy Walker
Empire of Light — Roger Deakins
Tár — Florian Hoffmeister
Best Visual Effects
All Quiet on the Western Front — Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar
*Avatar: The Way of Water — Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett
The Batman — Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick
Top Gun: Maverick — Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher
Best Documentary Feature
All That Breathes — Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed — Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov
Fire of Love — Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman
A House Made of Splinters — Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström
*Navalny — Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris
Best Documentary Short Subject
*The Elephant Whisperers — Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga
Haulout — Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev
How Do You Measure a Year? — Jay Rosenblatt
The Martha Mitchell Effect — Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison
Stranger at the Gate — Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
Best Film Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin — Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Elvis — Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
*Everything Everywhere All at Once — Paul Rogers
Tár — Monika Willi
Top Gun: Maverick — Eddie Hamilton
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