Oscars 2023 Highlights: Everything Everywhere All At Once sweeps off 7 wins, takes Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actress crowns

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Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Actor: Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Best Supporting Actress: Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Animated Feature Film: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio" - Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley
Best Cinematography: All Quiet on the Western Front - James Friend
Costume Design: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Ruth Carter
Original screenplay: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Animated Short: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Live action short: An Irish Goodbye
Best Animated Feature: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Best Documentary Feature: Navalny
Best Documentary Short: The Elephant Whisperers
Best International Feature: All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Best Production Design: All Quiet on the Western Front
Best Visual Effects: Avatar: The Way of Water

-- Oscars wins for The Elephant Whisperers & RRR
Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga's film The Elephant Whisperers won in the Best Documentary Short category. While the chart-topping Naatu Naatu (RRR) won the Best Original Song beating Rihanna's Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick, sung by Lady Gaga.

-- All That Breathes misses Oscar
All That Breathes, an exploration of inter-species coexistence by Director Shaunak Sen lost the Best Documentary Feature Prize category to Navalny. The flim however took the festival scene by storm, having a dream run at Cannes and Sundance.

-- Deepika Padukone on stage
Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone made her Academy Awards in a Louis Vuitton gown to introduce Naatu Naatu singers Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava and their accompanying dancers.

-- 'Naatu Naatu' echoes in Dolby theatre
Naatu Naatu was among the A-list of Oscar-nominated songs performed live during the ceremony. Singers Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava and their troupe sang and danced against a replica of the original song's backdrop, making for an electrifying Oscars moment.

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-- The youngest Oscar winner is Tatum O'Neal. She was 10 years old when she won Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1974. While the oldest Oscar winner is Anthony Hopkins. He won the Best Actor Oscar for The Father (2020), at the age of 83.
-- Jennifer Lawrence famously fell on the Oscars stage in 2013, wearing a $4 million Dior gown, believed to be the most expensive dress in Oscars history.
-- Russian film War and Peace, spanning 414 minutes, was awarded the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1967.
-- In Oscars history, only two actors -- Heath Ledger and Peter Finch -- have been awarded the trophies posthumously.
-- Katharine Hepburn, star of films like The Lion in Winter, won four Oscars in a career spanning six decades.

-- The inaugural Academy Awards took place in May 16, 1929, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.
-- Janet Gaynor won the Best Actress award while Emil Jannings was adjudged the best actor.
-- 'Oscars'? Till 1939, the trophies handed out by the Academy were known as the Academy Awards of Merit. But after Margaret Herrick, the Academy's executive director, compared the award to her uncle Oscar, it became popular by that name.
-- The Oscar award weighs a hefty eight-and-a-half pounds.
-- According to the Academy's rules, winners or their heirs cannot sell the statuette "without first offering to sell it to the Academy for the sum of $1.00".

India at the Oscars: Big wins for ‘Naatu Naatu’ and ‘The Elephant Whisperers’

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— “Everything Everywhere All at Once” had a big night
— Lady Gaga and Rihanna took the stage as performers, but lost to “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR”
— Speeches were highly emotional, from the likes of best supporting actor Ke Huy Quan, best supporting actress Jamie Lee Curtis, costume design winner Ruth E. Carter and Yulia Navalnaya — accepting for the “Navalny” documentary

NaatuNaatu'shistoric Oscar musical win has brought the spotlight back to India. MMKeeravani'ssong written byKeeravaniand with lyrics byChandrabosemade history as the first song from an Indian film to earn a nomination and win in the best original song category.

Speaking backstage,Keeravanisaid: "It's just the beginning of everything. For the world, particularly the Western world, folks are more on India and Asian music. It's just long due. I feel very happy to open doors and the world to embrace my culture.”In an earlier interview,Keeravanialso said he felt compelled to use the Oscars’ platform to highlight other artists from India. “It’s important so that more and more music and talented artists from my country can have a chance to get this kind of recognition, so that the world embraces India music more than ever,” he said.

LyricistChandrabosesaid he's eager to show his trophy to his wife and children. backstage he also spoke about the challenges of writing a song in a language that has 56 letters.“We have a lot of words, expressions, a lot of feelings in our language. Very great language and very literary language. Very musical language. If you write it all, it will sound like music. ... With people like you loving the song, it means that kind of music and sound makes this all possible," he said.

Host Jimmy Kimmel milked last year's incident where actor Will Smith smacked comedian Chris Rock for his jokes about wife jada Pinkett Smith throughout the Oscar ceremony.While Smith has been banned from attending the Academy Awards for 19 years, the slap-gate was ever present.

Begining his gig, Kimmel joked: "If any of you get mad at a joke and decide you want to get jiggy with it -- it's not going to be easy." Get jiggy is a lyric from once of Smith's popular songs.He then called on the "superhero" audience of Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield), the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal), and "the Fabel…man" (Steven Spielberg) to stop any attempt. Adding: "There will be no nonsense tonight. We have no time for shenanigans."

Mid-way he again harked back to the slap, recollecting that the incident happened around the same time. "The next movie is documentary feature, which is where we had that little skirmish last year. Hopefully this time, it goes off without a hitch. Or at least without Hitch," he said, referring to Smith's film.

Kimmel also closed the show with a laugh at the expense of last year's Will Smith-Chris Rock drama saying: "Congrats to all on an incident-free evening"

Indian actor Deepika Padukone was misidentified as Brazilian model Camila Alves by Getty's at the Oscars 2023. Alves is married to actor Matthew McConaughey.
For her Academy Awards appearance, Padukone wore a black custom Louis Vuitton gown and a yellow diamond necklace from Cartier. Padukone became only the third Indian to be a presenter at the Academy Awards. Read more here