2023 Academy Awards winners announced

Everything Everywhere All at Once had the most nominations at the 95th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday with 11, and the sci-fi comedy-drama did not disappoint, with the film picking up seven golden statuettes altogether. The film, about a Chinese-American laundromat owner grappling with an IRS audit and inter-dimensional attackers, took home the top prize of the night, winning the Oscar for Best Picture. Everything Everywhere All at Once also picked up the Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) and Best Film Editing. The film's star, Michelle Yeoh, won the Oscar for Best Lead Actress and her supporting cast swept those categories with Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan picking up the Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor awards, respectively. Brendan Fraser played spoiler for a clean sweep of the top awards, winning the Oscar for Best Lead Actor in The Whale, the story about a morbidly obese English teacher who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. The German World War I film All Quiet on the Western Front also fared extremely well, picking up four Oscars out of nine nominations for Best International Feature Film, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best Original Score. Women Talking, a story about the abused women of an isolated religious colony, won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio won the golden statuette for Best Animated Feature Film. Navalny, which revolves around Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the events related to his poisoning, took home the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film. Avatar: The Way of Water picked up the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and Top Gun: Maverick won the award for Best Sound. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever won the golden statuette for best Costume Design and The Whale took home a second Oscar, winning the prize for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Naatu Naatu by M.M. Keeravaani and Chandrabose won the Oscar for Best Song from the Indian drama film RRR.