Oscar 2023: who were the big winners and losers of the ceremony

There were winners and losers, of course, at the Oscar ceremony.

There were more of the second ones than of the first, for obvious reasons -of five candidates per category, 4 out of 50, 80% withdrew empty-handed-, but there were films that were the big winners of the gala and others that were completely ignored by members of the Hollywood Academy.

Let's go ahead with the analysis: what happened with

, with

, with

, with

, with

, all of them candidates for best film?

They did not win a statuette.

And say that performances on stage are not rewarded, because there were several who deserved their prize, and others did not hide their displeasure.

Like Angela Bassett, sitting in the audience, when she lost best supporting actress to Jamie Lee Curtis, and Salma Hayek, who had been enthusiastic when naming Argentina, 1985 among the

, but when she opened the envelope and read

did not hide, disguise or camouflage his bitterness.

Angela Bassett could not go up with her long dress to receive the award for best supporting actress.

Her disgusted face on her TV was tremendous.

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With the Oscars it seems that every year something had to happen for the ceremony to attract attention.

It is already known that audience ratings drop, but this is happening with broadcast television all over the world: people -and young people- follow the awards more through social networks, as Janet Yang explained to me last week , the president of the Hollywood Academy.

But either because of Will Smith's slap to Chris Rock in last year's edition, or because of cultural events more than pugilistic, such as a film not spoken in English winning the best of the year award (Parasites, in 2020

days before the Covid-19 pandemic broke out), the first film from a streaming service to win the main prize

Apple's Coda, last year), or the first actress to win three main Oscars since Katharine Hepburn (was Frances McDormand, in 2021, for

).

Vietnamese-born Ke Huy Quan (he was the kid from "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"), with his Oscar for "Everything Everywhere...".

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Well yesterday at the Dolby Theater

made history.

For one thing, it's the first film considered, among its many intersecting genres, science fiction, to win the Oscar for best picture.

If you want to see it, it's in theaters, on Amazon and on Flow, for rent.

It had 11 nominations -one canceled each other, for best supporting actress, because Stephanie Hsu lost to Jamie Lee Curtis-, so we can well say that it won in 7 out of 10 possible categories.

That number of statuettes, 7, also marks a difference from recent years, when the Academy was not so inclined to support a film with so many distinctions.

Everything everywhere, and all together.

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang with the award for best film.

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That was something common in other good times, when productions like

, in 1998, which won 11 of the 14 nominations, or

, in 2004, were the most nominated and ended up being the most awarded (Peter Jackson's won the eleven statuettes in the categories in which it was nominated), not for theft, but you understand me.

more records

Costume designer Ruth E. Carter became the first black woman to win two Oscars (she did it for

and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and winning best original song for

's Naatu Naatu was her first win. in the category for an Indian film.

Costume designer Ruth E. Carter, the first African-American to win two statuettes.

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Another fact for which the Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) film set another record is that Michelle Yeoh became the first woman from Southeast Asia to win the award in this category.

Further?

Like co-stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan also won as supporting actors,

is the third film to win three acting awards, following Elia Kazan's

, which did so. in the 1952 edition (Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter), and Network: Power to Kill, by Sidney Lumet, in the 1977 edition (Peter Finch, who was the first actor to receive the award posthumously, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight).

Nor is it very common for the award for best direction to be shared by two filmmakers, which was what happened with Los Daniels.

The last to achieve it had been the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, for

, in the 2008 installment.

German director Edward Berger poses with his Oscar for best international film.

for "All Quiet on the Front".

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The other production that withdrew from the Dolby Theater more than satisfied is the German

.

The Netflix production, which bet heavily on this title, won in the category in which it competed with

, and also did so for its direction of photography, its music, and production design.

Four out of nine is not bad.

Lastly, another one that won two of the three prizes it was up for was

, by Darren Aronofsky.

Brendan Fraser teared up onstage when he received his Oscar for Best Leading Actor.

The film about the morbidly obese man also won best makeup and hairstyling.

Winners for best actors, the Malaysian Michelle Yeoh and an emotional Brendan Fraser.

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Now let's go to the other side of the scale.

It is ugly to arrive with expectations and leave without having gone on stage to thank the parents.

And that happened to five of the ten films nominated in the main category.

Perhaps the biggest failures have been, in terms of awards, those of

, by Martin McDonagh, and

, by Baz Luhrmann.

The first one came with 9 nominations, and we thought that, like so many other times, the Academy was going to give, as a consolation prize, the best original screenplay to its director.

But that's also where the gale of Everything slipped

.

Not so victorious.

Colin Farrell, nominated for best actor.

"The spirits of the island" was left without any of its 9 candidacies.

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In the case of the film about Elvis Presley, it had 8 nominations, and Austin Butler, as an actor, and the make-up of Tom Hanks's character, boasted two awards that were not (and that were for the same film: The Whale

.

We understand that the Academy adores Steven Spielberg, but

did not win any of the 7 statuettes to which they aspired, and the director, who has the curious merit of having been nominated in the last six decades!, does not go up to thank an award since he won best director, for

, long ago: it was in 1999.

Spielberg, Ke Huy Quan, and Kate Capshaw (Spielberg's wife).

The three met while filming "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."

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could win best leading actress.

It would have been the third statuette for Australian Cate Blanchett, which she lost to Michelle Yeoh.

She lost in all 6 categories in which she was nominated.

That

, by the Swedish Ruben Östlund, was not going to win in any of its three categories (film, direction and original script) was known.

And among the Oscar nominees, they saved the potatoes,

, with the award for best adapted screenplay,

(best sound) and

(visual effects).

The Angels.

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