Oscars 2023: Everything Everywhere All at Once – The most daring film in a long time

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FInternationally, the 95th Academy Awards will be remembered as the event where a film deeply connected to rising global power China won seven Academy Awards: Everything Everywhere All at Once.

For us Germans, it will be the ceremony at which a German film won four trophies for the first time: “Nothing New in the West” won the Oscar for the best international film (that was to be expected), the best camera (that too was suspected). ), best production design (a big surprise) and best music (he was just an outsider there).

In the history of the Oscars, only three German films have won the trophy for the best non-English language film – now called the “International Oscar”: “The Tin Drum” (1980), “Nowhere in Africa” ​​(2003) and “The Life of the others” (2007). “Nothing new in the West” thus represents a new quality.

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And while you “only” competed with other “foreigners” at the Oscars for Foreigners, “Nothing New in the West” has also asserted itself in the competition with Hollywood’s best cameramen, set designers and composers. The success has not only an international, but also a national aspect: “Nothing New in the West” was shot entirely without German film funding, on behalf of Netflix. This should not remain without consequences in the debate about film funding.

Connection between American and Chinese culture

The big winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is a purely American production – and yet it has a lot to do with the relationship between the Americans and China. The duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, which also won the director’s Oscar, stands for Chinese and German immigration.

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Almost all the leading roles – with the exception of Jamie Lee Curtis, who received a supporting role Oscar – are cast by actors of Chinese origin: Ke Huy Quan, whose family was politically persecuted in Vietnam and who emigrated to the United States in the mid-1970s, won a supporting role Oscar , James Hong (for 70 years in Chinese supporting roles in Hollywood) and of course Michelle Yeoh, who snatched the leading role Oscar from Cate Blanchett, which was thought to be safe.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once testifies to the connection between American and Chinese cultures in many ways, from the elderly Chinese father coming to live with his emigrant daughter in New York, to the traditional celebration of the Chinese New Year, to the Native American creed of the “You can be anything if you really want it.”

That being said, it’s the most conceptually bold and cinematically daring film to win an Oscar in a long time.

All winners at a glance

– Bester Film: „Everything Everywhere All at Once“

– Best International Film: “Nothing New in the West” (Germany)

– Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

– Hauptdarstellerin: Michelle Yeoh („Everything Everywhere All at Once“)

– Leading actor: Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”)

– Nebendarstellerin: Jamie Lee Curtis („Everything Everywhere All at Once“)

– Nebendarsteller: Ke Huy Quan („Everything Everywhere All at Once“)

– Camera: James Friend (“Nothing New West”)

– Original screenplay: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)

– Adapted screenplay: Sarah Polley (“The Pronunciation”)

– Schnitt: Paul Rogers („Everything Everywhere All at Once“)

– Film music: Volker Bertelmann alias Hauschka (“Nothing new in the West”)

– Filmsong: „Naatu Naatu“ („RRR“)

– Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck and Ernestine Hipper (“Nothing New in the West”)

– Ton/Sound: Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon und Mark Taylor („Top Gun: Maverick“)

– Visual Effects: Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett (“Avatar: The Way of Water”)

– Animated film: “William the Bull’s Pinocchio”

– Animations-Kurzfilm: „The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse“

– Documentary: “Navalny”

– Short Documentary: “The Elephant Whisperers”

– Make-up/Hair: Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Annemarie Bradley (“The Whale”)

– Kostümdesign: Ruth Carter („Black Panther: Wakanda Forever“)

– Short film: “An Irish Goodbye”

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