“EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE” WINS BEST PICTURE OSCAR

LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Everything Everywhere All At Once” was named best picture at the Oscars last night. It also won six other awards, including acting awards for Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan (kee hoy kwahn), and best director for The Daniels – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. It’s only the second film The Daniels have made. Sheinert says they got their start making music videos. He says they’re notorious for coming up with an idea and figuring out how to pull it off as they go. Kwan says “Everything” is “a shotgun blast of joy and absurdity and creativity.”

MICHELLE YEOH WINS BEST ACTRESS OSCAR

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michelle Yeoh says her win as the first Asian American to win the best actor Oscar is historic. She says the glass ceiling has hampered people who look like her, and in her words, “I kung-fu'd it out and SHATTERED it.” Yeoh won for her role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once." She says she owes a lot to her mother, who advised her, among other things, “Don’t wear pants to the Oscars.”

BRENDAN FRASER WINS BEST ACTOR OSCAR

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Brendan Fraser says he feels a bit “light in the head” after winning the best actor Oscar for his role in “The Whale.” Fraser says an Oscar is a lot heavier than he imagined, and he predicts one arm might be longer than the other. Fraser acknowledges that he's been an actor for 30 years and things have not come easy for him. He says putting one foot in front of the other worked for him, and it can work for others.

KE QUY KWAN WINS SUPPORTING ACTOR OSCAR

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ke Quy Kwan (kee whee kwahn) says one of his proudest moments was not just hearing his name announced as the winner of the best supporting actor Oscar, but hearing his actual name. Kwan went by Jonathan Kwan as a kid because his agents thought it sounded more American. Kwan says when he heard his name read as the winner last night for “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” his first thought was of his mother, who sacrificed so much for him. Kwan struggled with getting acting jobs as an adult, and he'd call his agent every few months, only to be told there's no work for him, Kwan says he plans to call his agent today and he's expecting “a different answer.”

JAMIE LEE CURTIS WINS BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR

LOS ANGELES (AP)) – You could see the words Jamie Lee Curtis said when she was announced as the best supporting actress winner at the Oscars: “shut UP!” Curtis won for her role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” While she mentioned her parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, in her acceptance speech, she told reporters backstage she doesn’t believe in a world where “people are looking down on us.” She says she is a product of her parents and they would be incredibly proud of her. Leigh had been nominated for her work in “Psycho” and Curtis for “The Defiant Ones,” but neither had won.

RUTH CARTER BECOMES FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO WIN TWO OSCARS

LOS ANGELES (AP) – For the first time, a Black woman has won multiple Oscars. Costume designer Ruth Carter won her second Oscar last night, for her work on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Carter also won an Oscar for costumes for the original “Black Panther” movie. Carter told reporters she endured in the face of adversity and she hopes to inspire young costume designers.

DENZEL WASHINGTON WATCHES LAKERS INSTEAD OF OSCARS

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Denzel Washington blew off the Oscars to take in a basketball game. Washington was at last nights Knicks-Lakers game in Los Angeles. He sat next to Spike Lee.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Here is the list of winners at last night's Academy Awards:

Best picture: “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”

Original song: “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR”

Film editing: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best director: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best animated feature: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”

International feature film: “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany)

Live action short: “An Irish Goodbye”

Cinematography: James Friend, “All Quiet on the Western Front”

Makeup and hairstyling: “The Whale”

Costume design: “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

Documentary short: “The Elephant Whisperers”

Animated short: “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”

Production design: “All Quiet on the Western Front”

Music (original score): Volker Bertelmann, “All Quiet on the Western Front”

Visual Effects: “Avatar: The Way of Water”

Original screenplay: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

“SCREAM 6” TAKES BOX OFFICE CROWN

LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Scream 6” has debuted in first place at the box office, making more money in its first weekend than any previous “Scream” movie. “Scream 6” made $44.5 million domestically, according to studio estimates. It’s the first “Scream” movie that does not have Neve Campbell in it. “Creed 3,” which was the box-office leader last week, drops to second place. The Adam Driver sci-fi thriller “65” opens in third place. “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” is number four. “Cocaine Bear” is fifth.

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