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The 2023 Oscars has come and gone but the memory lingers. However, Everything Everywhere All at Once, reigned supreme as it won seven Oscars, the most of any film, including best picture, best director and best original screenplay.

Heading into the ceremony, It was nominated for 11 Oscars. Notably, it is the first best picture winner to feature a primarily Asian-American family with a strong LGBT storyline.

The film with the next highest number of wins in the ceremony was All Quiet on the Western Front, with four awards.

Michelle Yeoh, the star in the movie, Everything Everywhere All at Once, made history as the first Asian woman to win best actress, while Brendan Fraser won best actor for The Whale.

Everything Everywhere All at Once co-stars, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis also won in the supporting actor and actress categories, respectively.

In his acceptance speech, Fraser said: “I started in this business 30 years ago, and this – they certainly didn’t come easily to me, but there was a facility that I didn’t appreciate at the time until it stopped,” Fraser, acknowledging his career setbacks in an emotionally laden voice.

He further thanked his director Darren Aronofsky for “throwing me a creative lifeline and hauling me aboard.”

Ruth E. Carter a second time winner, got an Oscar for her work in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The victory makes her the first Black woman to win two Oscars.

Carter, who in 2019 became the first black person to win the Oscar for costume design for her work on Marvel’s Black Panther, was once again recognized for the film’s sequel.

Other nominees in the best picture category included All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, The Fabelmans, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick, Triangle of Sadness and Women Talking.

One thing many around the world have come to agree on, is that the biggest night in Hollywood this year, wasn’t a disappointment.