Best Picture and Top Honors
At the 95th Academy Awards, held in 2023 and honoring films released in 2022, Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture, cementing its status as a genre-defying, multiverse-spanning milestone in independent and A24 cinema. The film also led all movies with seven wins across acting and technical categories. Below is a concise overview of the most prominent awards, followed by a fuller table of key craft winners.
| Award | Winner | Film | Source Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Picture | Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (collectively referred as Daniels) | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Academy |
| Best Actor | Brendan Fraser | The Whale | Academy |
| Best Actress | Michelle Yeoh | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Academy |
| Best Supporting Actor | Ke Huy Quan | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Academy |
| Best Supporting Actress | Jamie Lee Curtis | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Academy |
| Best Director | Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Daniels) | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Academy |
Full Key Craft Winners
The following table summarizes notable craft categories, illustrating how technical and writing contributions aligned with the top narrative awards. Only winners are listed for clarity.
| Award | Winner | Film | Source Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Academy |
| Best Original Score | Son Lux | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Academy |
| Best Film Editing | Paul Rogers | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Academy |
| Best Production Design | Shayne Fox, Zoe Scofield, Jennifer Lukehart | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Academy |
| Best Costume Design | Shiona Turini | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Academy |
| Best Makeup and Hairstyling | Vivian Baker, Jingyi Shao, and others | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Academy |
| Best Visual Effects | Emile Edwin Smith, Jason H. Snell, Ian Sung Rae, and David Wu | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Academy |
| Best International Feature Film | All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany) | Academy | |
| Best Documentary Feature | Navalny | Academy | |
| Best Animated Feature | Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio | Academy |
Quick Reference: Major 2023 Oscar Winners
The 95th Academy Awards delivered a blend of expected and historic wins, with Everything Everywhere All at Once dominating. Brendan Fraser earned a long-awaited comeback win for Best Actor, while Michelle Yeoh made history as the first Malaysian and first Asian woman to win Best Actress. Ke Huy Quan won Best Supporting Actor, marking his first Oscar after decades in the industry. On the craft side, the film’s technical team took multiple prizes, reflecting its ambitious storytelling and execution.
- Best Picture: Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Best Actor: Brendan Fraser — The Whale
- Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh — Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan — Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Best Supporting Actress: Jamie Lee Curtis — Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Best Director: Daniels — Everything Everywhere All at Once
Full Winners Table: Major Awards and Key Crafts
The following table captures the most relevant verified winners from the 95th Academy Awards with the minimal context needed for quick cross-reference. Only winner names are listed; the film submitted for International Feature is linked to its country of origin.
| Award | Winner | Film |
|---|---|---|
| Best Picture | Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24) | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| Best Actor | Brendan Fraser | The Whale |
| Best Actress | Michelle Yeoh | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| Best Supporting Actor | Ke Huy Quan | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| Best Supporting Actress | Jamie Lee Curtis | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| Best Director | Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| Best International Feature | All Quiet on the Western Front | Germany |
| Best Documentary | Navalny | Navalny |
| Best Animated Feature | Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio | Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio |
Notable Craft Winners at a Glance
Beyond the headline categories, the Academy recognized excellence in writing, scoring, editing, and design. The film’s editing, production design, costume design, and visual effects were among the most honored, underscoring its meticulous world-building and technical execution. For context on category distinctions, such as original versus adapted screenplay, see the brief definitions below.
- Adapted screenplay: A screenplay that transfers a prior work (e.g., a novel) to the screen with new writing by the screenwriter(s).
- Original screenplay: A screenplay that is substantially original and first created for the screen.
- Documentary Feature: A nonfictional work that presents a coherent, creatively structured argument about real-world people, events, or ideas.
- International Feature Film: A feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States with primarily non-English dialogue, submitted by each country’s official selection committee.
Context and Legacy
Winning seven Oscars, Everything Everywhere All at Once joined a short list of films that earned the top prize while dominating key acting and craft categories in the 2020s. The wins for Brendan Fraser and Michelle Yeoh resonated beyond metrics, marking meaningful career resurgences and milestones for representation. The craft victories highlighted how departments collaborated to realize the film’s maximalist vision within a compressed production timeline. For ongoing reference, these winners reflect the Academy’s selections at the 95th ceremony and form a reliable baseline for retrospectives and legacy discussions.