Glitter, gasps, and golden statues filled the night as Everything Everywhere All At Once swept the Oscars 2023, taking home Best Picture and rewriting awards season expectations with its bold, multiverse storytelling.
Which movies, actors, and creatives will take home Oscars? Who will walk away from the Academy Awards empty-handed and beeline to the nearest bar? Could Marvel win its first acting Oscar? Could there be a major Best Actress upset? Can anyone top the slap with a legitimately moving acceptance speech? Will Ke Huy Quan continue his award-season hot streak and win big for Everything Everywhere? (The last one is almost definitely yes.)
There are big questions going into the 2023 Oscars, and we’re on top of them. Here’s a look back at the season, a full rolling list of winners, and a guide to everything else you don’t want to miss about the Academy Awards.
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Mar 13, 2023
Toussaint Egan and AELGAMES Staff
The biggest moments from the 2023 Oscars
From Michelle Yeoh’s groundbreaking Best Actress win for Everything Everywhere All at Once to Brendan Fraser’s emotional comeback in The Whale, the 2023 Oscars were filled with standout moments. The night belonged to Everything Everywhere All at Once, which dominated major categories including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor. Rihanna’s moving performance and Ke Huy Quan’s heartfelt speech added warmth and emotion to the ceremony, making it a night that blended triumph, nostalgia, and celebration across generations of Hollywood talent.
The 2023 Oscars proceeded with the usual opening pomp and grand celebrity fashion show, as expected from Hollywood’s biggest night. The red carpet was full of wild questions, Jimmy Kimmel opened the night with expected slap jokes, then Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis won the audience’s heart with their moving, emotional acceptance speeches for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. David Byrne donned a pair of hot-dog-finger gloves while performing an original song from Everything Everywhere All At Once, alongside Mitski. And Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava tore up the stage with their performance of “Naatu Naatu” from S. S. Rajamouli’s Oscar-nominated Indian action epic RRR.
If you didn’t catch the three-hour-plus broadcast – or just want to relive some of the night’s brightest and weirdest moments – we’ve rounded up the best, the funniest, the most touching, and most exhilarating moments from tonight’s Academy Awards ceremony.
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Mar 13, 2023
Petrana Radulovic
Here are all the 2023 Oscar winners
Here are all the 2023 Oscar winners.
Thankfully, the 2023 Oscars were remarkably less intense than last year’s.
As many predicted, it was Everything Everywhere All At Once‘s night. The A24 flick won seven awards total – including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress. Other notable wins included RRR‘s infectious “Naatu Naatu” for Best Original Song and Brendan Fraser winning his first Academy Award for The Whale.
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Mar 13, 2023
Tasha Robinson
Everything Everywhere All At Once’s Best Picture win is a triumph for weird cinema
“Everything Everywhere All At Once” taking home Best Picture marked a bold moment for the Academy, signaling a rare embrace of chaos, absurdity, and heart all tangled together. Its victory celebrated imagination unbound by convention-proof that audiences and voters alike crave stories that blend multiverse madness with deeply human emotion. This win showed that risk and originality can break through Hollywood’s usual formulas, giving hope to filmmakers who thrive on strange, genre-bending ideas.
Everything Everywhere All At Once is the 2023 Oscars Best Picture winner, and it also netted six other awards, for Best Director, Original Screenplay, Film Editing, Actress, and Supporting Actor and Actress. For anyone who watched this year’s ceremony, where the audience went wild every time the film was mentioned, the Best Picture win stopped being a surprise about halfway through the show. But a year ago, no one could have watched Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s multiverse masterpiece and anticipated this kind of response or recognition – not from the notoriously stodgy Academy.
Everything Everywhere initially felt like a film designed to earn a small, passionate audience. At best, it seemed like it might become a well-kept cult-movie secret. It played like a bigger and brighter version of the Daniels’ first movie, Swiss Army Man – a movie beloved in certain circles, but too dark, eccentric, and subversive to command a mainstream or widespread audience. Certainly neither of their projects felt like Academy contenders.
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Mar 13, 2023
Zosha Millman
Lady Gaga got real up close and personal at the Oscars 2023
Lady Gaga delivered one of the night’s most talked-about moments with a raw and stripped-down performance of her nominated song. Dressed simply and free of makeup, she created a startling contrast to the glamour of the red carpet just hours earlier. Her emotional presence and powerful vocals drew the audience in, turning the packed Dolby Theatre into an intimate setting that highlighted her authenticity and artistry.
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The 2023 Oscars featured a lot of things: a long list wins for us all to argue about, beautiful gowns, anotherlive performance from Rihanna this year, and some extreme close-ups of Lady Gaga.
Gaga showed up to perform the original song she wrote for Top Gun: Maverick, “Hold My Hand.” While the music video is all heartfelt bravado – Gaga wearing a fighter jacket in front of a wind machine mixed in with footage from both Top Gun movies – the Oscars performance was different. On-stage, Gaga went for more of an MTV’s Oscars Unplugged look, wearing just ripped black jeans and a gray t-shirt.
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Mar 13, 2023
Jesse Hassenger
The Oscar-winning drama All Quiet on the Western Front is actually a horror movie
“All Quiet on the Western Front” may have claimed multiple Oscars for its powerful storytelling, but its real strength lies in how it transforms war into a chilling horror experience. The film trades traditional heroism for scenes of raw terror, portraying the battlefield as a place where humanity unravels under constant fear and chaos. Every explosion and silence carries dread, making it feel closer to a nightmare than a traditional war drama.
Germany’s All Quiet on the Western Front picked up four awards at the 2023 Oscars: Best International Film, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, and Best Score. Why is the Netflix original release a big deal for voters? Here’s our original look at the film.
With so many movie industry awards happening before the Academy Awards ceremony, the Oscar winners tend to feel relatively predictable by the time the actual broadcast rolls around. So the biggest surprises tend to be reserved for the nominations. One of this year’s bigger surprises was the overall strength of Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front, which racked up nine Academy nominations, including Best Picture. It’s won a variety of industry and technical awards, and appeared prominently on best-of-2022 awards from film critics circles. At the BAFTAs (essentially the British Oscars), it notched an impressive 14 nominations and won in seven categories, including Best Film and Best Director. It’s now considered one of a handful of long-shot possibilities at upsetting presumed frontrunner Everything Everywhere All at Once for Best Picture in the United States. This is especially surprising, because it’s arguably the worst movie among the 10 nominees.
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Mar 13, 2023
Petrana Radulovic
Everything Everywhere All At Once’s Ke Huy Quan gives an emotional Oscar speech
Ke Huy Quan captivated the audience with a heartfelt Oscar acceptance speech for his supporting actor win in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Tears streaming down his face, he recalled arriving in the U.S. as an eight-year-old refugee with no English, dreaming of Hollywood while facing years of closed doors. He thanked his family, director Daniel Kwan, and stars Michelle Yeoh and Stephanie Hsu, declaring, “This is for all the immigrants and dreamers who believed in the impossible.” The room erupted in a standing ovation, marking one of the night’s most moving highlights.
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After months of talking up his work in Everything Everywhere All At Once, and winning every other award under the sun, including the Golden Globe and SAG Awards, Ke Huy Quan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting actor at the 2023 Oscars. As he tearfully took to the stage, the actor gave an emotional speech, reflecting on the trajectory of his career and giving heartfelt thanks to the people in his life.
“My journey started on a boat,” Quan started off. “I spent a year in a refugee camp. And somehow I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage. They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I can’t believe this is happening to me. This is the American dream!”
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Mar 13, 2023
Zosha Millman
Jimmy Kimmel hit every slap joke he could at the Oscars
Jimmy Kimmel wasted no time addressing the infamous Oscar slap, weaving sharp humor into nearly every reference he could manage. His opening monologue mixed self-awareness and mischief, balancing the tension of last year’s moment with quick wit and easy charm. Each joke landed with just enough bite to draw laughs without reopening the old wound, proving that the ceremony could move forward while still having a little fun with its most talked-about controversy.
You can take the slap out of the Oscars (or Will Smith out of the Academy), but you can’t take the slap Jokes out of the Oscars, even – maybe especially – at the 2023 Oscars.
Host Jimmy Kimmel opened the show with a monologue that included a joke about the slap incident from the 2022 Oscars. It started mild – “Five Irish actors are nominated tonight, which means the odds of another fight on stage just went way up” – but got more elaborate as the monologue went on.
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Mar 12, 2023
Joshua Rivera
Disney’s American Born Chinese trailer is a fantastical Everything Everywhere All at Once reunion
Disney’s trailer for American Born Chinese reunites the stars of Everything Everywhere All at Once in a thrilling blend of mythology and high school drama. Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu return with the same energy that made their Oscar-winning film such a hit, but this time in a dazzling fantasy series that mixes modern life with ancient Chinese legends. The trailer teases gravity-defying action, sharp humor, and a fresh take on cultural identity, setting the stage for one of Disney’s most ambitious series yet.
Viewers of Sunday night’s Oscars 2023 broadcast got the first real look at American Born Chinese, the forthcoming Disney Plus TV series that just also happens to be a reunion for the stars of Oscar frontrunner Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese “Tells the story of Jin Wang, an average teenager juggling his high school social life with his home life,” according to Disney Plus’ official synopsis. “When he meets a new foreign student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.”
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Mar 12, 2023
Andy Crump
EO, the Oscars’ oddest nominee, proves we need more movies from animal perspectives
EO turns the spotlight toward an overlooked perspective-the gaze of an animal caught in a human world. Through the donkey’s quiet observations, the film asks audiences to reconsider how cinema portrays empathy and consciousness. Its nomination at the Oscars feels bold, reminding viewers that powerful storytelling does not depend on dialogue or human emotion alone but can also arise from the silent presence of a creature observing our chaos.
None of the six donkeys that star in Jerzy Skolimowski’s Oscar contender EO will receive a statue at the 2023 Oscars ceremony, even if the film does pull off an unlikely upset in the Best International Feature Film category against its stiffest competition, Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front. Animals aren’t eligible for Academy Awards, though plenty of movies embraced by the Academy have featured animal actors, like Terry (Toto in The Wizard of Oz) and Popcorn Deelites (Seabiscuit in Seabiscuit).
But centering EO on a donkey as the subject rather than as an object, as the star rather than a supporting figure, is what makes Skolimowski’s movie a unique experience, both in and outside the context of the Oscars. Whatever does win Best International Feature Film will be downright conventional compared to EO, a movie that makes the best argument yet that films need more animal perspectives.
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Mar 12, 2023
Toussaint Egan
How to watch the 2023 Oscars, and when they start
The 2023 Oscars begin at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, with red-carpet arrivals starting earlier in the evening; tune in to see the ceremony unfold live as the night highlights winners, shocks, and memorable moments from the competition, including Everything Everywhere All At Once’s standout run.
The 2023 Oscars will be the 95th celebration of the film world’s most prestigious and time-honored award ceremony when it takes place on Sunday, March 12, live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. And on top of the Oscar nominees, this year’s Academy Awards will be star-studded: Along with host Jimmy Kimmel, presenters include a ton of famous presenters. The big question for you? How and when are you watching the Oscar cermeony.
It’s still anyone’s guess as to who will win the night’s Best Picture prize, but we do know how you can catch all of the awards as they happen.
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Mar 9, 2023
Tasha Robinson
Oscar nominees drew their characters winning, and it’s the best
Each nominee brought a unique twist by sketching their characters celebrating a win, turning a simple artistic prompt into a heartfelt expression of pride and humor. The drawings captured everything from teary victories to wild Oscar-night chaos, reflecting how deeply the actors connected with their roles. Fans loved the mix of sincerity and self-parody, proving that these performers can entertain both on-screen and on paper.
The 2023 Academy Awards ceremony is Sunday night, and in the lead-up, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released a video where some of the nominees in the animated categories draw their main characters winning Oscars. It’s a full-on mercenary advertisement for the Oscars, it weaponizes cuteness to lure people in, and I do not care, because it’s adorable and wholesome af.
Seen in the video are Turning Red director Domee Shi, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish director Joel Crawford, The Sea Beast director Chris Williams, and Ice Merchants director João Gonzalez. Gonzalez is the only nominee in this video from the Best Animated Short category – the other three are all competing with each other for Best Animated Feature Film. (Also in this category but not in the video: Dean Fleischer Camp for Marcel the Shell With Shoes On and Guillermo del Toro for Pinocchio. Which is too bad, given del Toro’s views about his Pinocchio as a monster: That could have been a fun drawing.) All four of them talk a bit about their films and inspirations as they draw.
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Mar 6, 2023
Tasha Robinson
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is the only Oscars 2023 catchup movie you need
Watching The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor after the Oscars feels strangely fitting-it’s pure popcorn fun that reminds you movies don’t need golden statues to be worth your time. While Everything Everywhere All At Once swept the awards with multiverse madness, Brendan Fraser’s return to the spotlight adds new charm to revisiting his wild adventure against an ancient emperor. It’s a carefree antidote to awards-season seriousness, packed with chaotic energy, campy effects, and that unmistakable early-2000s blockbuster spirit.
The 95th Academy Awards ceremony is coming up in a week, which still leaves curious film fans a little time to catch up on the nominees – most of them are available to stream by now. But as usual, the contenders are mostly a bunch of serious stories. If you need a break from watching graphically gruesome trench warfare in Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Brendan Gleeson performatively mutilating himself in The Banshees of Inisherin, or rich people projectile vomiting en masse in Triangle of Sadness, here’s a palate cleanser for you.
Brendan Fraser is heavily favored to win the Best Actor Oscar this year for his mournful role in The Whale, while Michelle Yeoh is the odds-on favorite for Best Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once. So why not take a couple of hours to watch the only film they ever made together? 2008’s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is readily available on streaming services.
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Mar 1, 2023
Pete Volk
Where to watch every Oscar-nominated movie
Many of the 2023 Oscar nominees are available on major streaming platforms, making it easy to catch up before awards night. “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is streaming on Showtime and Paramount+, while “The Banshees of Inisherin” can be found on Disney+ and HBO Max. Netflix hosts “All Quiet on the Western Front,” and “Top Gun: Maverick” is available on Paramount+. Rentals and digital purchases for titles like “TÁR” and “The Fabelmans” are also accessible through services such as Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video.
Academy Awards season is back, AELGAMES readers!
2022 was a great year in movies, with standout blockbuster cinema from the U.S. and around the world, plenty of solidgenre offerings, and great arthouse fare. And 2023 movies are off to a great start, too.
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Feb 22, 2023
Matt Patches
Will Smith takes to TikTok to keep the Oscar Slap Saga going
Will Smith hops onto TikTok to extend the Oscar slap saga, keeping fans glued as the conversation lingers over the 2023 ceremony and its ripple effects across pop culture.
Nearly a year after the slap heard around the world, 2022 Best Actor Oscar winner Will Smith has taken to TikTok to get cheeky and move on.
In a duet video posted Tuesday, Smith reacts to TikToker Sam Rossi aka @missmoneyworking, who digs into “an absolutely unhinged exercise” that will “change your life.” Rossi suggests that anyone looking to get real with themselves pick up an inanimate object and ask it what it thinks of you. The idea: Your intuition will “speak” to you as the object, and reveal something you may not be comfortable enough to say as yourself. So, at the end of the video, Smith tries out the experiment… with his Oscar statue.
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Jan 24, 2023
Austen Goslin
Avatar and Top Gun lead a rare Oscar year where big movies are Best Picture material
Big-screen blockbusters returned to the Oscars spotlight as Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick joined the Best Picture lineup, bringing audience favorites into a category often reserved for smaller prestige films. Their inclusion marked a rare year where massive box office hits shared recognition with art-house successes, reflecting a broader mix of taste among Academy voters and audiences alike.
It’s the rare year when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the general American moviegoing public are in total agreement. The 2023 Oscar nominations were announced on Tuesday morning, and the most popular movies of the year by box-office standards, Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick, both earned nominations for Best Picture. While this may not sound surprising, it hasn’t really happened for almost 50 years.
The most recent time it happened was a bit of a technicality, so in the mind of this Oscar trivia buff, it doesn’t actually count. In 2010, the top two movies at the American box office were Toy Story 3 and Avatar. But Avatar was actually released in 2009, and just hung around in theaters for months after its debut. Because of this staggered release, the two movies weren’t even nominated for Best Picture in the same year; Toy Story 3 broke into the category at the 83rd Oscars, celebrating 2010 releases, while Avatar was at the 82nd ceremony the year before.
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“Everything Everywhere All at Once” swept the 2023 Oscars with seven wins, including Best Picture, Best Director, and acting awards for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Brendan Fraser’s emotional comeback in “The Whale” earned him Best Actor, while “All Quiet on the Western Front” dominated the technical categories. The ceremony mixed heartfelt speeches with unexpected victories, making it one of the most talked-about nights in recent Academy Awards history.
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Oscars 2024 major winners and surprises
Oppenheimer dominated the 96th Academy Awards on March 10, 2024, sweeping seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director for Christopher Nolan.
Other major categories saw Emma Stone win Best Actress for Poor Things over frontrunner Lily Gladstone, while Robert Downey Jr. and Cillian Murphy claimed their first Oscars in Supporting and Leading Actor.
Major Winners
| Category | Winner | Film |
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| Best Picture | Oppenheimer | |
| Best Director | Christopher Nolan | Oppenheimer |
| Best Actor | Cillian Murphy | Oppenheimer |
| Best Actress | Emma Stone | Poor Things |
| Best Supporting Actor | Robert Downey Jr. | Oppenheimer |
| Best Supporting Actress | Da’Vine Joy Randolph | The Holdovers |
| Best Animated Feature | The Boy and the Heron | (Hayao Miyazaki) |
Oppenheimer‘s technical wins included Cinematography, Editing, and Score.
Key Surprises
Emma Stone’s Best Actress victory upset expectations for Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), with Stone even shouting out Gladstone during her speech.
The Boy and the Heron shocked by beating Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in Animated Feature.
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie snub extended to no wins despite nominations, highlighting a major oversight.
Standout Moments
John Cena’s near-nude presentation for Costume Design (using only the envelope for coverage) stole the show with humor.
Billie Eilish’s emotional “What Was I Made For?” earned a standing ovation.
Ryan Gosling’s live “I’m Just Ken” performance electrified the crowd.
Who hosted the 2024 Oscars and notable moments
Jimmy Kimmel hosted the 96th Academy Awards on March 10, 2024, marking his fourth time emceeing the ceremony.
Notable Moments
Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue poked fun at Barbie, Oppenheimer, and past Oscars drama like the Will Smith slap, while highlighting union workers who “keep Hollywood going.”
John Cena’s comedic “nude” appearance-wearing only a sash and using the Best Costume Design envelope for coverage-delivered the award to Holly Waddington for Poor Things.
Ryan Gosling’s high-energy performance of “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie, with dancers and Mark Ronson, electrified the Dolby Theatre.
Standout Performances
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell performed and won Best Original Song for “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie, earning a standing ovation.
The ceremony started early to avoid overtime, briefly delayed by pro-Palestine protesters outside calling for a Gaza ceasefire.
