Michelle Yeoh wins best actress at the Oscars
Updates from Chelsea Bailey in the Oscars winners' room, Colin Paterson and Ben Derico at the Vanity Fair watch party, Peter Bowes and Tom Brook at the Roosevelt Hotel. Analysis from Helen Bushby, Emma Saunders and Sophie Long.
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The 2023 Academy Awards were full of emotional acceptance speeches, surprising turns and out-of-this-world movies.
Some of the best moments from the night included Ke Huy Quan delivering an emotional acceptance speech when he won for best supporting actor - after a two-decade break from performing - and saying: "Mom, I just won an Oscar!"
For more of the evening's best moments, read our piece here.
My closing thoughts on this year’s Oscars is that the Academy Awards are inching towards inclusivity.
Everything Everywhere All at Once winning the top award made history by becoming the first best picture winner to feature a primarily Asian-American family with a strong LGBT storyline.
Also, the Academy seemed eager to embrace a German-language film, All Quiet on the Western Front, giving it four trophies. And Indian cinema won two awards: best original song for RRR, and best documentary short for The Elephant Whisperers.
For years, the Academy has resisted the wonders of Indian cinema, and this year’s victories may portend a change of heart.
But while this year’s ceremony was indicative of great inclusivity, there’s still a long way to go because black nominees and female film-makers were sidelined.
Overall, I would rate this as quite a solid Oscar ceremony, with Jimmy Kimmel doing a fine job as master of ceremonies - but how many US viewers will have tuned in to watch? Not enough I fear.
The Academy still needs to reinvent the Oscars so it reaches a younger audience. It’s a formidable challenge in an era when interest in awards shows is declining.
Still for me, Hollywood’s biggest night of the year was not a disappointment. I’m going home now singing Naatu Naatu - I love that song!
After starting out as a child actor in 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, followed by the Goonies the following year, the work dried up for Ke Huy Quan.
But now he's an Oscar winner, and who better to celebrate with than Mr Indiana Jones himself, Harrison Ford?
It’s a big day for India after the song Naatu Naatu won a historic Oscar for the Best Original Song.
A track from the hit Telugu-language film RRR – short for Rise Roar Revolt – Naatu Naatu beat heavyweights like Lady Gaga and Rihanna to become the first Indian film song to win an Academy Award. Its singers also performed at the award ceremony earlier today.
Many Indians have taken to Twitter to express their happiness about the song's win.
N Chandrababu Naidu, an influential politician from the two southern Indian states where Telugu is spoken, said on Twitter that the song had "sealed its place in history".
Composed by MM Keeravani with lyrics penned by Chandrabose, Naatu Naatu already made history once in January when it won the Golden Globe for best original song. The same month, the song also won the Critics’ Choice award for the best song.
We have more reaction here.
Three films won big tonight at the 95th annual Academy Awards - none more than the multiverse epic Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Here is the tally for the films that won more than once at this year's awards show:
- Everything Everywhere All At Once won seven Oscars, including best picture
- All Quiet on the Western Front won four, including best international feature film
- The Whale won two, including one for Brendan Fraser, who grabbed best actor
Dr Who - aka actor Matt Smith - has arrived! Not in a blue phone booth, but on a blue carpet. Close enough.
Speaking to the BBC's Colin Paterson at the Vanity Fair after-party, Smith says he was thrilled for the winners of Everything Everywhere All at Once.
When asked if Dr Who had met in the multiverse, he laughed and said: “We should make that film.”
It's been a historic awards season for Irish actors and film-makers, with a quarter of all the actors nominated for Oscars hailing from Ireland.
But if you ask the stars themselves, they'll tell you the recognition comes as no surprise.
"They're brilliant," actress Kerry Condon told BBC News at the annual Oscar Wilde awards earlier this week. Condon was competing in a closely watched race for best supporting actress for her role in The Banshees of Inisherin.
Tom Berkeley and Ross White were on hand to celebrate their Oscar-nominated short film, An Irish Goodbye, along with the film's stars James Martin and Seamus O'Hara. Martin told BBC News ahead of the event he planned to celebrate his 31st birthday at tonight’s ceremony.
"It's not every day that your birthday comes up and you get to come to America and your movie is up for an Oscar, so it would be nice to put that icing on my birthday cake.”
It’s the quiet before the storm here at the Vanity Fair after-party. The show may have just ended across town, but here in Beverly Hills the party hasn’t even started yet.
Well, that was fun! Now we FINALLY know who the big winners are, you may want to know how to see some of the films you may have missed.
Worry not, here's our guide on how to watch them - click here to find out.
Everything Everywhere All at Once had a big, very winning night.
The multiverse film won seven Oscars, and they were some of the biggest awards of the night too.
Right off the bat, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis won their first Oscar statues for their supporting roles. The film also bagged best editing, best screenplay, best director, best film and the historic best actress win for Michelle Yeoh.
Whew, what a night! The credits are rolling and the stars are getting ready for the after parties meaning the 95th Academy Awards are coming to a close.
But our coverage doesn't end here. It's nearing bedtime in the US but much of the world is just waking up. We'll be bringing you recaps of the night and interviews from the Vanity Fair party red carpet.
Stay tuned.
Lucky seven for Everything Everywhere All at Once! And it saved the best until last - best picture.
No surprises here – this eccentric sci-fi comedy drama isn’t obvious Oscar fare but it’s swept the board at many other award ceremonies this year and was largely expected to repeat its success tonight.
It’s absurdist humour may be a little off the wall for some but the film also has an emotional intergenerational family drama at its heart for those voters who like a little more convention.
Personally, I’m still having nightmares about those rubbery hot dog fingers.
The final award of the night goes to Everything Everywhere All at Once.
We're now on to the final award, Best Picture.
The nominees are:
- All Quiet On The Western Front
- Avatar: The Way Of Water
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Elvis
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- The Fabelmans
- Tár
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Triangle of Sadness
- Women Talking
Michelle Yeoh's win is highly significant - she is the first Asian winner for best actress.
Halle Berry, who is on stage presenting her award, was the first woman of colour to win a best actress Oscar in 2002 for Monster's Ball.
"Ladies don't let anyone ever tell you you're past your prime," Yeoh, aged 60, says.
She thanks the women of Hong Kong: "Thank you for letting me stand on your shoulders, for giving me a leg up," she says.
"This is history in the making."
This award should have been presented by last year's best actor winner Will Smith, but he was banned by the Academy for 10 years after slapping Chris Rock during the ceremony.
Huge cheers for Michelle Yeoh back here in the interview room at the Dolby Theatre as she takes home the award for Best Actress. She is only the second woman of colour to win the award.
The award goes to Michelle Yeoh for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
In the category for Actress in a Leading Role the Academy's nominees are:
- Cate Blanchett, Tar
- Ana de Armas, Blonde
- Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
- Michelle Williams, The Fablemans
- Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
As Fraser has said himself during the campaign trail, he’s been on quite the “journey”. Having picked up best actor wins at the SAG awards and the Critics Choice Awards, it always felt like it would come down to a battle between him and Elvis star Austin Butler.
The Whale marked Fraser’s first lead role for 12 years. He plays a reclusive and morbidly obese English professor who wants to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Fraser's on-screen transformation was the result of heavy prosthetics, which he admitted was "a challenge", physically and emotionally. And Oscar voters always like a transformation – think Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club, Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour or Charlize Theron in Monster.
This win also makes him the first best actor winner without a picture nod since Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart (2009).
The award goes to Brendan Fraser for The Whale.
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