How the Oscars 2023 became the year of the 復帰: 退役軍人 actors and tales of redemption 支配する an emotional 学院 Awards 儀式, 令状s ALISON BOSHOFF

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The cast call themselves ‘the everything bagel’ after the surreal 概念 at the heart of the film. And the Everything Everywhere All At Once team 証明するd an irresistible 軍隊 ? scooping 事実上 every award at an Oscars where the film took best picture, best director and three out of the four 事実上の／代理 awards.

It was a big night, too, for 退役軍人 actors and for 復帰s with all of the 事実上の／代理 勝利者s 大規模な sentimental favourites with the 3,300 strong audience in the Dolby Theatre ? and all of them 老年の over 50, all of them with long careers, and all of them first-time 指名された人s.

Jamie 物陰／風下 Curtis, the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, started 事実上の／代理 when she was a 十代の少年少女 and was rewarded 老年の 64 with her first Oscar 指名／任命 and first 勝利，勝つ. She 献身的な it to her parents and said after the 儀式: ‘I am a 製品 of them and a proud 製品 of them and I know that they would be incredibly proud of me.’

Michelle Yeoh, 60, again was a first time 指名された人 for her 役割 as laundry owner Evelyn Wang, and said of her award after a 40 year career: ‘Dream big, and dreams do come true ? and ladies, don’t let anyone tell you that you are past your prime.’

She 追加するd: ‘I have to dedicate this to my mum and all the mums in the world because they are the real superheroes. And without them 非，不，無 of us would be up here tonight.’

Toast of the town: Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh, Brendan Fraser and Jamie 物陰／風下 Curtis celebrate 支援する 行う／開催する／段階 after their Oscar 勝利，勝つs on Sunday night?

An Oscar at last: Jamie 物陰／風下 Curtis, the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, started 事実上の／代理 when she was a 十代の少年少女 and was rewarded 老年の 64 with her first Oscar 指名／任命 and first 勝利，勝つ?for Everything Everywhere All at Once

Moving moment: Michelle Yeoh, 60, was a first time 指名された人 for her 役割 as laundry owner Evelyn Wang in Everything Everywhere All At Once and she took home the best actr ess 勝利，勝つ

Yeoh, 60, 献身的な the award to her 84 year old mother and said that she would be bringing it home to her in Malaysia.

Brendan Fraser, who won Best Actor for his 業績／成果 as obese teacher Charlie in The 鯨, had 原因（となる） to celebrate that truth in his own life as he pulled off the final 勝利 in his own ‘Brenaissance.’

Once a hunky 主要な man, the 星／主役にする of the George of the ジャングル films and The Mummy, he had barely 行為／法令／行動するd in a film in a year before director Darren Arronofsky asked him to take the 役割.

Perhaps the most astonishing story belongs to former child actor Ke Huy Quan. His first 役割 was in Indiana Jones and the 寺 of Doom in 1984 as a child actor playing Short 一連の会議、交渉／完成する and in the years since then he left the 事実上の／代理 商売／仕事 because there were no parts for him.

On Sunday night he was honoured for his 業績／成果 as Waymond Wang, in the multiverse hopping, genre-破産した／（警察が）手入れするing 活動／戦闘 comedy film Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Quan was saluted with an ovation, kissed the Oscar and wept.?

What a 復帰: Former child actor Ke Huy Quan was 軍隊d to leave 事実上の／代理 because there were no 役割s for him until he landed a 役割 in Everything Everywhere All At Once. He was moved to 涙／ほころびs 受託するing the award for best supporting actor?

The incredible ‘Brenaissance’:?Brendan Fraser, who 発射 to fame as a? won Best Actor for his 業績／成果 as obese teacher Charlie in The 鯨.?Once a hunky 主要な man, the 星／主役にする of the George of the ジャングル films and The Mummy, he had barely 行為／法令／行動するd in a film in a year before director Darren Arronofsky asked him to take the 役割

He said: ‘Thank you! My Mum is 84 years old and she’s at home watching. ‘Mum I ju st won an Oscar. My 旅行 started on a boat. I spent a year in a 難民 （軍の）野営地，陣営 and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest 行う／開催する／段階.

‘They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe this is happening to me. This, this is the American dream. Thank you so much to the 学院 for this honour of a lifetime.’

He 追加するd: ‘I 借りがある everything to the love of my life my wife Echo who month after month, year after year for 20 years told me that one day one day my time will come. Dreams are something you have to believe in. I almost gave up on 地雷. To all of you out there please keep your dreams alive. Thank you so much for welcoming me 支援する.’

His co-星／主役にする James Hong, who is 94, commented: ‘He wasn’t really retired, he was waiting to 待ち伏せ／迎撃する - and once he （機の）カム 支援する into Hollywood again he said I’m going to do it big.’

Quan’s excitable personality and habit of grabbing delighted selfies with every famous person he has met over the course of the Oscars （選挙などの）運動をする has made him probably the most beloved 人物／姿／数字 of this year’s event.

Everything Everywhere All at Once （機の）カム about after director and writer Daniel Kwan said to his partner Daniel Scheinert: ‘Let’s put my mum in the Matrix.’

Kwan, 指名するd best director, said that the message of the film was: ‘There is genius in every 選び出す／独身 person no 事柄 who you are. You just need to find the 権利 people to 打ち明ける it.’

The pair ? 初めは pop music ビデオ directors ? pulled off a string of upsets which 完全に shut out both The Banshees of Inisherin which won nothing, and Elvis, which also won nothing にもかかわらず 星／主役にする Austin Butler 存在 the favourite to take Best Actor.

Incredible: Everything Everywhere All At Once earned seven awards 含むing Best Picture

最高の，を越す Gun, 指名するd for six Oscars 含むing best picture, only took home one ? for Sound. Perhaps its 星／主役にする Tom 巡航する had divined that it wasn’t going to be his night and therefore stayed away.

There was 失望, too, for Scottish Triathlete Lesley Paterson who bought the 権利s to the German novel All 静かな on the Western 前線 16 years ago and made かなりの sacrifices to keep the 権利s, 含むing competing in an event with a broken shoulder ーするために raise 基金s.

She and 令状ing partner Ian Stokell （機の）カム up with a script which was then 改訂するd by 生産者 Edward Berger and translated into German.

All 静かな lost out in the Adapted Screenplay 部類 to Everything Everywhere All At Once.

But although it wasn’t Paterson’s night, it was still a 広大な／多数の／重要な night for the film. It won four Oscars, having been 指名するd for nine, 含むing Cinematography which went to a visibly emotional Brit James Friend, Best International Film and 生産／産物 Design.

All the cast and 乗組員 wore blue 略章s to show 団結 with 難民s as part of a 国連難民高等弁務官 率先.

James Friend told the audience: ‘It’s not my birthday, but it feels like it is.’