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"Everything Everywhere All at Once," the off-the-wall feel-good film from studio A24, took home seven coveted golden statuettes and added several of its Oscar nominees to the short list of only 43 Asian Oscar winners.
Daniel Kwan, one of the film's directors and producers, made history on multiple fronts as the second Asian person in Oscars history to receive awards for best picture, director, and screenplay, according to Variety, and hails from Westborough, Massachusetts.
The Oscars have been hotly contested for its lack of inclusion, notably with the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite popularized after its all-white list of acting nominees in 2016. In its history of 3,100 bestowed golden statuettes, Asian people have only received 43 wins, but added four more to that number in 2023, according to Variety.
Even less represented among Oscar winners are Black and African-American people, holding only 41 gold statuettes. The 2023 Oscars' one new addition is Springfield, Massachusetts native Ruth E. Carter, who is the first Black woman to win a second Oscar.
Both of Carter's wins are for her costume design work for Marvel's "Black Panther" films, the most recent of which is “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
“Thank you to the Academy for recognizing the superhero that is a Black woman," Carter said in her acceptance speech. "She endures, she loves, she overcomes, she is every woman in this film."
Click here to read more about 2023's historic Oscars wins from Variety.
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