"Dreams do come true," says Michelle Yeoh as she wins best actress - the first Asian woman to receive the award - for Everything Everywhere All at Once
The eccentric sci-fi comedy drama also wins best picture and other top awards in a triumphant night
Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan won for their supporting actress and actor roles in the film
The award for best actor went to an emotional Brendan Fraser for The Whale
Chandrabose and MMM Keeravaani won best song for Naatu Naatu from film RRR
Celebrities are now at the Vanity Fair after-party in Los Angeles
Chelsea Bailey
Reporting from the Dolby Theatre
Huge cheers for Michelle Yeoh back here in the interview room at the Dolby Theatre as she takes home the award for Best Actress. She is only the second woman of colour to win the award.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe award goes to Michelle Yeoh for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
In the category for Actress in a Leading Role the Academy's nominees are:
Emma Saunders
Entertainment reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesAs Fraser has said himself during the campaign trail, he’s been on quite the “journey”. Having picked up best actor wins at the SAG awards and the Critics Choice Awards, it always felt like it would come down to a battle between him and Elvis star Austin Butler.
The Whale marked Fraser’s first lead role for 12 years. He plays a reclusive and morbidly obese English professor who wants to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Fraser's on-screen transformation was the result of heavy prosthetics, which he admitted was "a challenge", physically and emotionally. And Oscar voters always like a transformation – think Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club, Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour or Charlize Theron in Monster.
This win also makes him the first best actor winner without a picture nod since Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart (2009).
Image source, AFP via Getty ImagesThe award goes to Brendan Fraser for The Whale.
In the category Actor in a Leading Role the Academy's 2023 nominees are:
Helen Bushby
Entertainment reporter
The Daniels - Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert - have triumphed with best director, for Everything Everywhere All At Once. They beat some tough competition, including Martin McDonagh, Todd Field and Steven Spielberg.
"We want to dedicate this to all the mommies in the world, specifically ours," they said, a sentiment we can wholeheartedly endorse.
This is the fifth time two credited directors have been nominated for the same film, including Joel and Ethan Cohen, who were nominated for No Country for Old Men and True Grit.
Image source, Getty ImagesMalala Yousafzai, 'Cocaine Bear', and host Jimmy Kimmel speak during the Oscars
Host Jimmy Kimmel did a quick Q&A with some select audience members a bit ago.
First, he asks Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai if she wants to weigh in on one of the most controversial questions in Hollywood - whether Harry Styles really did spit on Chris Pine at the Venice Film Festival?
"I only talk about peace," she replies.
Kimmel moves on to Colin Farrell and then Jessica Chastain, while a large bear (or at least someone in a rather convincing bear costume) struts around behind him.
Image source, ReutersThe award goes to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (known as "the Daniels") for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Emma Saunders
Entertainment reporter
Image source, LionsgateSome might argue editors could be a little more brutal with films these days, with the likes of the Avatar sequel coming in at over three hours.
But seriously, congratulations to Paul Rogers who has won his first Oscar (for only his second film, not bad going!).
He must have spent a LOT of time jumping between all those multiverses in the cutting room.
In the category for Directing, the Academy's 2023 nominees are:
Image source, Getty ImagesThe award goes to Paul Rogers for Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Colin Paterson
Entertainment Correspondent, BBC News
And there we have it.
All Quiet On The Western Front loses its “semi final”.
Best adapted screenplay has gone to Sarah Polley for Women Talking.
I am gutted for the Scottish triathlete Lesley Paterson, who was nominated for All Quiet on the Western Front and spent 16 years of her life getting the film made.
Everything Everywhere All at Once wins its semi-final, taking the award for original screenplay.
After a very exciting forty minutes EEAAO is back as the best picture favourite.
In the category for Film Editing, the nominees are:
Helen Bushby
Entertainment reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesChandrabose and MMM Keeravaani won best song for Naatu Naatu, and riffed on The Carpenters' hit song Top of the World - they sang a version with lyrics about their film RRR and India.
It's the first Indian feature film to be nominated for anything other than best international film at the Academy Awards.
RRR stands for Rise, Roar, Revolt – it missed out on any film nominations, but is a historical fantasy that tells the story of two revolutionaries who fight against British rule in India.
Emma Saunders
Entertainment reporter
Image source, ReutersThere were whoops and cheers - some surprised ones perhaps - at the Sound win for the box office blockbusting sequel starring Tom Cruise.
But while it wasn't a shoo-in, this wasn't a huge surprise either, with the film picking up several other sound awards in the run-up to the big one tonight.
Helen Bushby
Entertainment reporter
Image source, Reuters"I want to thank the Academy by not being offended by the words women and talking being so close together," says Sarah Polley moments ago.
Her film is about "how people who don't agree on a single issue manage to carve out a way forward free of violence by talking and by listening".
It's based on Miriam Toews' novel of the same name published in 2018. It's based on the real-life women of a Mennonite community being drugged and raped by the men they lived alongside, between 2005 and 2009.
Some of those women managed to break free, and this film is a testament to their strength and resilience.
Image source, ReutersThe award goes to Naatu Naatu from RRR. Music by MM Keeravaani; Lyrics by Chandrabose.
In the category for Music (Original Song), the nominees are:
Image source, ReutersJimmy Kimmel joked tonight that writers were "lonely nerds" often hunched over their computers.
Well, these "nerds" had the last laugh, with Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheniert picking up best original screenplay a few minutes ago.
Scheniert thanked many of his teachers for teaching him to be "less of a butthead".
While Kwan said in his speech that his "imposter syndrome was at an all-time high".
We don't think he needs to worry about that.