The surreal sci-fi movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won seven platinum statuettes at the Oscars on Sunday, including best picture, which is the most coveted award in Hollywood.
In addition to winning best director, best actress, best original script, best editing, and both the best-supporting actor and actress awards, the unconventional but adored film also boasted multiple universes, sex toys, and hot dog fingers.
For her depiction of a worn-out Chinese laundromat owner engaged in combat with an interdimensional supervillain—who also happens to be her daughter—Michelle Yeoh, a Malaysian, becomes the first ever Asian woman to win best actress.
“Thank you to the Academy, this is history in the making!” she said.
“Ladies, don’t let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime,” added the 60-year-old, whose career began decades ago with martial arts films in Hong Kong.
Brendan Fraser won best actor for playing a morbidly obese teacher in “The Whale,” capping a remarkable career comeback.
Fraser was a major action star in the late 1990s with films like “The Mummy,” before largely disappearing from the public view.
“I started in this business 30 years ago, and things — they didn’t come easily to me,” he said.
He thanked director Darren Aronofsky for “throwing me a creative lifeline and hauling me aboard the good ship ‘The Whale.'”
