For the first time in Oscar history, the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and all four acting categories went to films released by the same studio. This historic feat was achieved on Sunday by the independent distributor A24.
Five of those six awards were won by “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the first film to win in five outstanding categories. Along with Best Picture, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert received the Oscar for Best Director, with Michelle Yeoh becoming the second woman of color to win Best Actress, Ke Huy Quan completing her awards season dominance with the award for Best Supporting Actor, and Jamie Lee Curtis winning Best Supporting Actress.
The A24 sweep was completed courtesy of Brendan Fraser, who won Best Actor for his performance in Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale.”
Kwan and Scheinert also won Best Original Screenplay.
Since its founding in New York in 2012, A24 has received 49 Oscar nominations, 18 of which come from this year’s Oscars alone. Along with “The Whale” and “Everything Everywhere,” A24 also earned nominations this year for “Close,” “Aftersun,” “Causeway” and “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On.”
In all, A24’s films have taken home eight Oscars this year, bringing the studio’s all-time total to 15. Previous wins for the studio include three Oscars for Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” in 2017, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Brie Larson. for “Room” in 2016, and Yuh-jung Youn’s Best Supporting Actress award in 2021 for “Minari.”
See the full list of this year’s Oscar winners here.
