Key moments from the Oscars: Everything Everywhere All at Once's ...
Several tears of joy were shed as Everything Everywhere All at Once swept the floor at the 95th annual Academy Awards.
For Michelle Yeoh, it was an Oscar. For Asian women around the world, it was history.
As the stars gathered for the film industry's night of nights, here's a few key moments from the Oscars 2023.
A historic win for Michelle YeohEverything Everywhere All At Once stole the show at the Oscars, with Michelle Yeoh becoming the first East Asian woman to win best actress.
"For all the little boys and girls who look like me, watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities," the 60-year-old Malaysian-born actor said.
"And ladies, don't let anybody tell you are ever past your prime."
Her mother, Janet Yeoh, second from right, watched her daughter's historic win, live from Kuala Lumpur.
Janet Yeoh, 84, praised the actor as intelligent and hardworking and a filial daughter.
"I so love my daughter and she has made Malaysia proud," Janet Yeoh said.
"Malaysia Boleh (Malaysia Can)!"
A whale of a comeback for Brendan FraserBrendan Fraser, whose career has spanned both success and semi-obscurity, won Best Actor.
Any earlier in his career, the 54-year-old Canadian American actor said he wouldn't have had the life experience or heartache to authentically play a character who lives with sadness, pain and life-threatening obesity.
"I started in this business 30 years ago. Things didn't come easily to me but there was a facility that I didn't appreciate at the time until it stopped," Fraser shared in his acceptance speech.
"I just wanted to say thank you for this acknowledgement."
In another record win for women of colour, Ruth E Carter, the costume designer behind the Black Panther films became the first black woman to win two Oscars.
In her acceptance speech, Carter thanked the film's director Ryan Coogler and asked if Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman could look after her mother, Mabel Carter, who she said died "this past week".
Boseman, who played the leading role of Black Panther in the 2018 film, died in 2020 of cancer at 43.
"This is for my mother. She was 101," Carter said.
"This film prepared me for this moment. Chadwick, please take care of mum."
Along with Michelle Yeoh's historic moment, the superhero comedy film claimed seven awards overall, including acting Oscars for stars Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.
The film was nominated for 11 awards. If it had been successful in winning all 11, it would have matched the record held by Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003).
'I am hundreds of people'Following a four-decade career, Hollywood royalty Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar for best supporting actress.
"I know it looks like I'm standing up here by myself but I am not. I am hundreds of people," she says as she thanks the cast.
Curtis took the prize for her role as tax inspector Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Discouraged by the lack of on-camera work for Asian Americans, Ke Huy Quan largely disappeared from Hollywood for more than two decades.
He returned in a big way, winning the supporting actor Oscar.
"My mum is 84-years-old and she's at home watching," Quan said. "Mum, I just won an Oscar!"
"My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood's biggest stage," he said.
"They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I can't believe this is happening to me. This is the American dream."
As a child actor, Quan followed his manager's advice to adopt an Americanised name, so he went by Jonathan Ke Quan.
"When I decided to get back into acting three years ago, the very first thing I wanted to do was to go back to my birth name," he said backstage.
"To see Ariana open that envelope and say Ke Huy Quan, it was so emotional."
Travolta's tears for Olivia during 'In Memoriam' segmentJohn Travolta was teary eyed as he introduced the "In Memoriam" segment.
Without saying any specific names, Travolta spoke of those "who we will always remain hopelessly devoted to" — a reference to his late Grease co-star Olivia Newton-John.
She died last August and was the first name shown.
Among the many who were remembered during the telecast: Irene Cara, Ray Liotta, Nichelle Nichols, Angela Lansbury, Louise Fletcher, Burt Bacharach, Mary Alice, Gina Lollobrigida, James Caan and Raquel Welch.
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