Oscars 2023: Quebecer Adrien Morot won the Oscar for best makeup

Quebec shone Sunday night at the 95th Academy Awards thanks to Montrealer Adrien Morot who won the prize for best makeup and hairstyles for his work in the film The whale. The crazy comedy Everything, everywhere, all at once came out the big winner of the evening with a harvest of seven Oscars including that of the best film.

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The experts, who had predicted a raid of Everything, everywhere, all at oncewere not mistaken: in the running for 11 prizes, the film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert finally won seven, including those for best film, best director and best adapted screenplay.

Players Everything, everywhere, all at once particularly distinguished themselves. Michelle Yeoh took home the Oscar for best actress while Ke Huy Quan, who plays her husband in the film, picked up the award for best supporting actor.

“Ladies, don’t let anyone tell you that your best years are behind you,” said Michelle Yeoh, 60, as she picked up her award.

Icon of American cinema for more than 40 years, Jamie Lee Curtis has meanwhile won the first Oscar of her career – that of best supporting actress – thanks to her interpretation of an obnoxious tax official.

A Quebecer shines

The evening was also fruitful for Quebecer Adrien Morot, a renowned special effects make-up specialist in Hollywood. The Montrealer won the Oscar for best makeup and hairstyles for his work in the film The Whale which consisted in particular in designing the make-up and the magnifying prostheses which allowed actor Brendan Fraser to slip into the skin of a man weighing more than 600 pounds.

Fraser, who is also Canadian, won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film.

Adrien Morot had already been nominated for an Oscar in 2011, for his participation in the film Barney’s world. However, he left empty-handed that year.

This is the second year in a row that a Quebec artist has taken to the stage of the Dolby Theater to win an Oscar, after Patrice Vermette, who was awarded the prize for best artistic direction last year for his work in Dunes. The science fiction film by Denis Villeneuve had collected a total of six Oscars.

Other films that stood out on Sunday included German war drama in the West Nothing New, which picked up four awards including Best International Film.

It should also be noted that Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for her film what they say.

Kimmel laughs at the slap

Returning as master of ceremonies after hosting the gala in 2017 and 2018, Jimmy Kimmel was excellent. Arrived by parachute on stage – a nod to Top Gun – the host delivered a biting and amusingly effective opening monologue, in which he served a few amusing points to Tom Cruise and James Cameron, both absent from the ceremony.

Kimmel was also quick to address the elephant in the room: the famous slap on stage by Will Smith to Chris Rock. The host recalled that a crisis team was present behind the scenes to prevent another incident of the same kind from occurring this year.

“But know that if anyone in this room commits an act of violence, they will receive the Oscar for best actor and they will be allowed to give a 19-minute speech,” he added deadpan. laugh.

THE 2023 OSCAR WINNERS

Best film
Everything, everywhere, all at once

Best Achievement
Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, Everything, everywhere, all at once

Best actor
Brendan Fraser for The whale

Best Actress
Michelle Yeoh, for Everything, everywhere, all at once

Best Supporting Actor
Ke Huy Quan, For Everything, everywhere, all at once

Best Supporting Actress
Jamie Lee Curtis, For Everything, everywhere, all at once

Best International Film
In the west, nothing is new, by Edward Berger (Germany)

Best Animated Film
Pinocchio, by Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley

Best Soundtrack
In the west, nothing is newby Volker Bertelmann

Best Original Song
Naatu Naatuby Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava for RRR

Best Animated Short
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horseby Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud

Best Documentary Film
Navalny, by Daniel Roher

Best Short Fiction Film
An Irish Goodbyee, by Tom Berkeley and Ross White

Best Original Screenplay
Everything, everywhere, all at once, by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Best Adapted Screenplay
what they sayby Sarah Polley

Best Direction of Photography
James Friend for In the west, nothing is new

Best Visual Effects
Avatar: The Way of the Water

Best Editing
Everything, everywhere, all at once, by Paul Rogers

The losers of the evening

Angela Bassett

Royal in Ramonda in Black Panther: Long Live Wakandathe 64-year-old actress did not walk away with the statuette for best supporting actress, the Academy of Oscars preferring Jamie Lee Curtis for her performance in the Everything, everywhere, all at once crazy about Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.

It is therefore not this year that the interpretation of a character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (UCM) will be Oscar-winning for the first time.

mandy walker

Director of photography Mandy Walker, who signs the Elvis by Baz Luhrmann did not become the first woman to win an Oscar in this category, the Oscar going to James Friend for In the west, nothing is new.

The Australian, who has worked in particular in Mulan And Figures from the shadows was nevertheless rewarded by the American Society of Cinematographers on March 5, becoming the first woman to obtain this award.

Steven Spielberg

The Fabelmansa semi-autobiographical feature film by Steven Spielberg — a filmmaker who won three Oscars during his career — and which stars Michelle Williams and Paul Dano as his parents, was nominated for seven Oscars.

On the other hand, the film failed to seduce the members of the Academy of the most prestigious awards in the cinema industry, The Fabelmans having left empty-handed.

At the box office, the film had not convinced moviegoers either, since it only generated US$38 million in revenue for a production budget of US$40 million, or just over $54 million. Canadians.