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The movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” had 11 nominations for Academy Awards, also called “Oscars.” The movie has been very popular.
In total, it won seven Oscar Awards: best picture, best actress, best director, best editing, best supporting actor, best supporting actress and best original screenplay.
Before the Oscars, the movie had already won awards from other groups for acting, directing and best picture.
The star of the movie, Michelle Yeoh, won best actress. She is the first Asian to ever win the award.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” didn’t have a nomination for best actor. The best actor category had 5 actors who were nominated for the first time. Brendan Fraser won for his movie “The Whale.”
Ke Huy Qua won the Oscar for best supporting actor in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” As a child, he acted in the hit Indiana Jones movies and “The Goonies.”
Jamie Lee Curtis, a movie star since she acted in the classic movie “Halloween” in 1978, won her first Oscar for supporting actress in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Angela Bassett was the first actor to have a nomination for a role in a Marvel movie. She was nominated for best supporting actress in the movie “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
Black Panther won an Oscar for best costume design.
The movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” won four Oscars including best international film.
Vocabulary
- Nomination – the act of officially suggesting someone or something for a job, position, or prize; the first step in the process of giving someone an award or choosing them for a job
- Picture (motion picture) – movie; film
- Director – a person in charge of making a movie or a play; the boss of a movie or play production
- Editing – the process of making changes to a movie or a piece of writing; selecting and moving parts of a movie/story around to improve it
- Supporting actor/actress – not the main actor in a movie or show; someone who plays a smaller role in a movie or play, but is still important to the story;
- Original screenplay – a script or story for a movie that is not based on any pre-existing material; a new type of story for a movie that isn’t a copy or remake of an older movie/story
- Star – a famous person; main actor in a show or movie
- Act – to perform in a play or a movie; to play a character; to appear in a movie or show;
- Hit – something that is very successful/popular, especially in the entertainment industry (hit movie, hit song, etc.)
- Classic – something that many people think is high-quality or great for a long time
- Role – the character that an actor or actress plays in a movie or a play
- Costume – the clothing that actors and actresses wear in a movie, play or TV show
- Design – a pattern/style used to decorate something; the way in which something is arranged or shaped
- Including – together with; as well as; part of a group or many; plus
Quiz
Discussion Questions
- What do you think made “Everything Everywhere All at Once” so popular and win so many awards? How is it different from other movies that have won awards recently?
- “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” got an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. Why do you think this is significant? Are superhero movies taken seriously by the people who decide on award nominations?
- Do you think it’s important for movies to win many awards, or is winning one big award like an Oscar enough to show that a movie is good? Can a movie be great and not win any awards?
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