The 95th Academy Awards have put the cherry on top of a US awards season that has, for the most part, been screaming Everything Everywhere All at Once at the top of its lungs. The multiverse-themed film by directorial duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert swept the awards by receiving a total of seven statuettes, leaving little room for any of the other competitors.

The only title that managed to stand its ground against the A24 juggernaut was a European film, and a Netflix production. Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] and Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985, as well as Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO [+lire aussi :
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The only other European winner of the evening was An Irish Goodbye, an Irish-British co-production directed by Tom Berkeley and Ross White, which stood out in the Best Live Action Short category. Following a pair of estranged brothers who reunite following their mother's untimely death in rural Northern Ireland, the short trounced other European competitors, such as Le Pupille by Alice Rohrwacher.

Despite having also received nine nominations, Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], which had racked up nods in the three main categories, experienced the same fate and went back to Europe with no statuettes at all.

The other European co-productions nominated that went home empty-handed included the documentaries A House Made of Splinters [+lire aussi :
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Here is the full list of winners:

Best Picture
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

Best Director
Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actress
Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actor
Brendan Fraser - The Whale

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 [+lire aussi :
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Best Documentary Feature
Navalny - Daniel Roher

Best Animated Feature
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio - Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson

Best Original Screenplay
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Adapted Screenplay
Sarah Polley - Women Talking

Best Cinematography
James Friend - All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Visual Effects
Avatar: The Way of Water

Best Editing
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Whale

Best Costume Design
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Best Sound
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Original Score
Volker Bertelmann - All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Original Song
Naatu Naatu — Kaala Bhairava, M.M. Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj (RRR)

Best Live Action Short
An Irish Goodbye - Tom Berkeley, Ross White (Ireland/UK)

Best Documentary Short Subject
The Elephant Whisperers - Kartiki Gonsalves (India)

Best Animated Short
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Peter Baynton