![]() ![]() A frontrunner for Best Supporting Actress, she lost to Jamie Lee Curtis, a wonderful actor who had perhaps the weakest role in this year’s Best Picture winner. Everything Everywhere All At Once’s sweep – the highest number of wins since 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire – came at the cost of Angela Bassett remaining unrecognised by the Academy. Even Best Animated Feature winner Guillermo del Toro spoke, with sincerity, about the importance of recognising that “animation is cinema”. Sarah Polley jokingly celebrated her Best Original Screenplay award for Women Talking by thanking “the Academy for not being so morally offended by the words ‘women’ and ‘talking’ so close together like that”. This year might be the rare exception.Įlsewhere, costume designer Ruth Carter made history by becoming the only Black woman to win two Oscars, both for her formidable work on the Black Panther films. Rarely does it ever feel like those words have any meaning. Every year, we get the same twinkly-eyed speeches about how Hollywood is really a dream factory where we’re limited only by our own imaginations. So to see Quan, a newly crowned Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor, offered the chance to celebrate with the same man who helped guide him through his very first steps into the industry – well, to quote the actor himself, “they say stories like this only happen in the movies”. Everything Everywhere All At Once wasn’t merely a comeback. But the roles for Quan soon began to dry up, and he was forced to settle into a career of stunt coordination and assistant directing. Ford’s career went from strength to strength. Almost four decades ago, the pair had starred together in Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, when Quan was just a child. ![]() ![]() When Harrison Ford announced Everything Everywhere All At Once as this year’s Oscars Best Picture winner, its star Ke Huy Quan rushed to the stage and immediately leapt into the actor’s arms. ![]()
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