Oscars 2023 LIVE Updates: Everything Everywhere... sweeps Academy Awards with 7 wins

Jr NTR poses with Black Panther star Michael B Jordan. The stars can be seen twinning in black and holding hands.

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Ke Huy Quan, ahead of the Oscars event today, shared his experience on filming for Everything Everywhere All At Once which bagged a total of seven Oscars out of 11 nominations.  Ke Huy Quan, who created history by becoming the first Asian Actor to bag Best Actor in Supporting Role said, "I don't know how any of this happened."

 Ke Huy Quan, who created history by becoming the first Asian to bag Best Actor in Supporting Role at the Oscars, posed with the golden statuette 

Ruth E. Carter, the costume designer behind the Black Panther films, made history by becoming the first Black woman to win two Oscars. Carter bagged best costume design at the 95th Academy Awards for the Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Previously, Carter won in 2018 for Black Panther, which made her the first African American to win in the category.

In her acceptance speech, Carter said, “This is for my mother. She was 101,” Carter said. “This film prepared me for this moment. Chadwick, please take care of mom.”

Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win Best Actress at Oscars. After the Academy Award wound up, she posed with her golden statuette. 

Michelle Yeoh won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Everything Everywhere All At Once. Her mom watched the ceremony back home in Malaysia and her reaction is going viral on social media.  

Everything Everywhere All At Once was nominated in 11 categories and won in 7. Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan won acting honours and both delivered emotional speeches from the stage. The director duo also took home Best Director and Best Picture honours. 

Best Picture has been bagged by Everything Everywhere All At Once. The team has wound up the Oscars night with 7 wins, including Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Director. The director got emotional during the acceptance speech. 

Michelle Yeoh wins Best Actress for her performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once . She has scripted history by becoming first Asian actress to win top acting honour at Academy Awards.

Brendan Fraser won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in The Whale. He made a comeback after years and has been lauded for his performance as an obese and gay homosexual teacher. 

 Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as The Daniels, won Best Director Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once. The movie is now leading the Oscars race with 5 wins out of 11 nominations.  

Everything Everywhere All At Once won Best Editing Oscar. EEAAO and All Quiet on The Western Front have won 4 awards each till now. 

MM Keeravaani delivered a musical speech after winning an Oscar for Naatu Naatu in Best Original Song category.  

Women Talking won its first Oscar for the night in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.  

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh gave away the Best Original Screenplay Oscar to the Everything Everywhere All At Once team. The EEAAO team has won three Oscars till now. 

Rihanna is a first time nominee at Oscars. Her song Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is in the race for Best Original Song. She took the stage during her pregnancy and delivered a soulful redition of the track. 

Naatu Naatu performance was one of the best live acts at Oscars 2023. Representing India were singers Rahul Sipligunj and Kaal Bhairava. The team got a standing ovation from the audience. 

Jamie Lee Curtis took home the Oscar in Best Supporting Actress category for her role in Everything Everywhere All At Once. This is her first Oscar in more than four decades in the film industry. 

German film All Quiet On The Western Front was nominated in 9 categories at Oscars. It has won four awards till now, including Best International Film and Best Cinematography. 

The Elephant Whisperers won an Oscar for India in the Best Documentary Short Film category. Producer Guneet Monga shared an image of the winning moment from the Academy Awards stage and wrote, "Tonight is historic as this is the first ever Oscar for an Indian production. India’s Glory with 2 women. Thank you Mom Dad Guruji Shukrana. To my Co-Producer Achin Jain, Team Sikhya, Netlflix, Aloke, Sarafina, WME Bash Sanjana. My lovely Husband Sunny. Happy 3 months anniversary baby! Kartiki for bringing & weaving this story. To all the women watching. The future is audacious and the future is here. Let’s go! Jai hind (sic)." 

Jenny, who played the donkey in The Banshees of Inisherin, graced the Oscars stage wearing a bedazzled emotional support animal vest. The animal was escorted to the stage by host Jimmy Kimmel. 

Lady Gaga performed her Oscar nominated song Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick at the stage. Her soulful rendition won applause from the audience. 

Indian entry The Elephant Whisperers has won in the Best Documentary Short film category. Director Kartiki Gonsalves is a first time nominee and winner at the Academy Awards. 

German entry All Quiet On The Western Front has won an Oscar in the Best International Film category. It has won 2 Acdemy Awards in the night so far out of 9 nominations. 

Indian documentary title All That Breathes has been snubbed at the Oscars 2023. All That Breathes lost to Navalny in the Best Documenatry film category. The Elephant Whisperers is still in the race in the Best Documentary Short Film category.

The Whale has won the first Acadmey Award for the night in the Best Hairstyling and Makeup category. For Brendan Fraser's transformation as Charlie in the film, it took 6 hours inside the makeup room. 

James Friend wins Best Cinematography Oscar for the German war epic All Quiet on the Western Front. The film is nominated in nine categories at the 95th Acadmey Awards.

Everything Everywhere All at Once actor Ke Huy Quan was emotional while accepting his Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar. “My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp,” Quan said. “Somehow, I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage. They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe it’s happening to me. This — THIS — is the American dream,” Quan said from stage.

"My journey started on a boat. I ended up in a refugee camp ... They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe this is happening to me. This is the American dream!" - Ke Huy Quan #Oscars pic.twitter.com/eyGbfwgLhX

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Ke Huy Quan wins Best Supporting Actor for Everything Everwhere All At Once. He made an emotional speech as he accepted the award.

Oscars 2023 host Jimmy Kimmel addressed the 2022 slapgate incident involving Will Smith and Chris Rock. "If anyone in this theater commits an act of violence at any point in the show, you will be awarded the Oscar for Best Actor and permitted to give a 19-minute-long speech," he said.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio wins the Oscar for the Best Animated Feature Film. It was the favourite coming in and has bagged the Academy Award. 

Ana de Armas arrived at the Oscars red carpet dressed in a silver sequinned gown. She is nominated in Best Actress category for her role in the Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde. 

Everything Everywhere All At Once actresses Michelle Yeoh and Stephanie Hsu met at the Oscars red carpet. Yeoh and Hsu are nominated in the Best Actress and Best Actress in a Supporting Role categories respectively at the 95th Academy Awards.

Only four out of the five Best Original Song nominees will be performing live at Oscars 2023. Lady Gaga won't be performing Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick at the 95th Academy Awards. However, she will attend the ceremony as a nominee. Read more
 

Oscars best documentary feature film nominees include All That Breathes, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love, A House Made of Splinters, and Navalny. Read more
 

Ahead of the Oscars, the preparations are underway. Rehearsals took place at the Dolby Theatre. Presenters Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell, Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh and Creed III frenemies Michael B Jordan and Jonathan Majors rehearsed with stagehands and camera operators. Read more
 

Last year, comedian Chris Rock's jokes on Jada Pinkett Smith being a potential option for GI Jane 2 were not taken in jest by the latter's husband Will Smith. He walked up to Rock on stage and slapped him. And the rest as they say, is history. 

The Envelope Gate: The Academy Awards in 2017 will always be remembered for the Best Picture announcement mix-up. Read more

Oscars 2023 Best Actor nominees are: Austin Butler, Brendan Fraser, Colin Farrell, Paul Mescal and Bill Nighy. 

Four out of the five songs nominated in the Best Original Song category will be performed at the Oscars ceremony live. Naatu Naatu, Lift Me Up, Applause and This is A Lie will be performed by the respective artists. Read more.   

The Oscars 2023 best-supporting actor nominees include Ke Huy Quan, Brendan Gleeson, Judd Hirsch, Barry Keoghan, and Brian Tyree Henry. Read more

The countdown to Oscars 2023 has begun. Deepika Padukone, Samuel L Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Micheal B Jordan, Nicole Kidman and Florence Pugh are some of the celebrities who will be presenting the Academy Awards to the winners. Read more. 

Some of the Oscar nominated films are still in theaters but many are also available online to stream now. Here’s where you can find many of the the movies vying for Oscar glory on March 13 (IST). Read more.  

The nominees are: Angela Bassett, Hong Chau, Kerry Condon, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Stephanie Hsu. Read more

The bags reportedly contain products such as Havaiana flip-flops, All Better Co lip balms, Antigua Cruz tequila, Beli Baby prenatal vitamins for both men and women, and more. The gift bags also include Frontera Wines, which is the top Chilean wine brand. Read more

Rihanna has been nominated at Oscars 2023 for her song Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. This is her first nod at the Academy Awards and could be her first win too. However, in the Best Original Song category, she faces stiff competition from the RRR song Naatu Naatu by music composer MM Keeravaani. Read more.  

It is based on the story of two Delhi brothers, Nadeem and Saud, who run a bird hospital for injured black kites that fall from the sky. Read more
 

Naatu Naatu's live performance to Deepika Padukone's look as she turns presenter, know what to expect from Oscars 2023. Read Story

Naatu Naatu is a frontrunner in the Best Original Song category at Oscars 2023 but Rihanna and Lady Gaga might pull a surprise win. Read Story

Michelle Yeoh is the first Asian and the first woman of Malaysian descent to be nominated in the Best Actress category. Read Story

The nominees in the Best Picture category 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. Here's where you can watch Oscar-nominated films online.

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Halle Bailey, Antonio Banderas, Elizabeth Banks, Jessica Chastain, John Cho, Andrew Garfield, Hugh Grant, Danai Gurira, Salma Hayek Pinault, Nicole Kidman, Florence Pugh, and Sigourney Weaver along with Riz Ahmed, Emily Blunt, Glenn Close, Jennifer Connelly, Ariana DeBose, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Michael B. Jordan, Troy Kotsur, Jonathan Majors, Melissa McCarthy, Janelle Monáe, Questlove, Zoe Saldaña and Donnie Yen are some of the presenters. 

A third list of presenters recently announced included: Halle Berry, Paul Dano, Cara Delevingne, Harrison Ford, Kate Hudson, Mindy Kaling, Eva Longoria, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth Olsen, Pedro Pascal, and John Travolta.

Deepika Padukone will be the only Indian presenting at the Oscars this year. 

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Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert directed indie sci-fi film Everything Everywhere All At Once is leading with 11 nominations. Closely following it is The Banshees of Inisherin and Netflix’s WWI film All Quiet on the Western Front with nine nods. Meanwhile, Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) seems to have an edge over Cate Blanchett (Tár) for Best Actress. There's a tough fight between Brendan Fraser (The Whale) and Austin Butler (Elvis) for Best Acor. 

In the supporting categories, Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once) will look to create history. Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans) may look to bag his third Best Director Academy Award, though Everything Everywhere All At Once makers seems to be in a more favorable position. 

Everything Everywhere All At Once may end up with their biggest haul at Oscars 2023. 

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While the usual snubs and surprises made headlines, the biggest topic of discussion around Oscars 2023 has been over Andrea Riseborough's unforeseen nomination for Best Actress. Riseborough has been nominated for the Texas-set drama To Leslie. Several A-list celebs rallied around her performance and some believe that it is how she ended up being nominated. Meanwhile, when expected Best Actress contenders like Danielle Deadwyler (Till) and Viola Davis (Woman King) were snubbed, a racial bias debate sparked. After an online uproar,  an inquiry into Riseborough's nomination was launched. However, the Academy found no reason to rescind her nomination. Read Story
 

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Cate Blanchett, Ana de Armas, Andrea Riseborough, Michelle Williams, and Michelle Yeoh are the contenders in the Best Actress in a Leading Role category. Read Story
 

For Oscars 2023, a crisis team has been put in place to deal with unforeseen incidents, like last year's slapgate involving Will Smith and Chris Rock. Read full story
 

India has been nominated in three categories. RRR's song Naatu Naatu has been nominated in the Best Original Song category while All That Breathes and The Elephant Whisperers bagged a nom each in Best Documentary Film and Best Documentary Short Film categories respectively.
 

The process behind selecting an Oscar winner is a long one with multiple rounds of voting before one gets to lift the golden statuette. Read Story

The 95th Academy Awards, affectionately called Oscars, will be held Sunday, March 12, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The ceremony is set to begin at 8 p.m. EDT and will be televised live on ABC. Indian fans can watch the Oscars live on March 13, 5:30 am IST. 
 

The Oscars will be streamed live on platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Fans across the globe can also watch the ceremony on HULU Live TV, Direct TV, FUBO TV, and AT&T TV. Viewers worldwide will also be able to join in on the spectacle as Disney+ Hotstar will live-stream the prestigious awards at 5:30 AM IST, Monday. 
 

Jimmy Kimmel will be hosting the Oscars for the third time. However, it's his first time since 2018, the last time the Oscars featured a solo host. For several years thereafter the show went hostless. Last year, Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes hosted as a trio.