The viral dance song "Naatu Naatu" made Oscars history Sunday as the first song from an Indian film to win the Academy Award for best original song -- besting heavyweights Lady Gaga and Rihanna to snag the prize.. The track "This Is a Life" also earned a nomination for best song, performed for the film by Byrne, Mitski and Son Lux.
In the end, its victory was utterly predictable and yet still totally implausible.
Here are the winners in key categories for the 95th Academy Awards, which were handed out in Hollywood on Sunday.. - Key winners - Best picture: "Everything Everywhere All at Once" Best director: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" Best actor: Brendan Fraser, "The Whale" Best actress: Michelle Yeoh, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" Best supporting actor: Ke Huy Quan, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" Best supporting actress: Jamie Lee Curtis, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" Best international feature film : "All Quiet on the Western Front" (Germany) Best cinematography: "All Quiet on the Western Front" Best animated feature: "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" Best documentary feature: "Navalny" Best original song: "Naatu Naatu" from "RRR" Best original score: "All Quiet on the Western Front," Volker Bertelmann bur/sst
Michelle Yeoh on Sunday made history by becoming the first Asian woman to win the best actress Oscar, for her exuberant portrayal of an immigrant business owner thrust into a zany multiverse in the sci-fi trip "Everything Everywhere All at Once.". But even amid such a haul, the 60-year-old Yeoh praise for her portrayal of middle-class immigrant Evelyn, who must navigate life in America as well as a complex multiverse that contains endless variations of her existence.
Brendan Fraser's best actor Oscar win on Sunday for his powerful performance as a morbidly obese man in "The Whale" caps a remarkable career comeback for the charismatic leading man.. - Lost decade - But Fraser's A-list career would soon be derailed.
Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan unleashed a film featuring people with hot dogs for fingers, rocks with googly eyes and emotions, and an everything bagel as the ultimate universal truth -- that nothing matters. . At one point, she caresses the face of her tax auditor with her feet, because both have hot dogs for fingers.
"Navalny," a film that examines the poisoning of jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, on Sunday won the Oscar for best documentary feature.. The film, which premiered at the Sundance film festival in January 2022, won a BAFTA last month.
He barely escaped Pakistan with his life after angering its powerful military with his journalism.. His fearless criticism of the powerful Pakistani military made him a target, particularly a front-page story for the New York Times exposing their secret prisons.
It's been a year, but the power of "The Slap" lives on.. "The next movie is documentary feature, which is where we had that little skirmish last year," Kimmel said.
A wrenching German adaptation of the classic war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" clinched the Academy Award for best international feature Sunday with its timely anti-militarist message.. In "All Quiet", World War I is viewed through the eyes of teenage German soldier Paul Baeumer (Kammerer), a volunteer on the Western front.
