The dual directing team known as the Daniels have won the Oscar for best director.
Daniel Scheinert, left, and Daniel Kwan accept the award for best original screenplay for"Everything Everywhere All at Once" at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. – The Daniels doubled down on everything. It's paid off in one of the most unlikely best director Oscar wins in history.
The directing duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert took the elite filmmaking prize Sunday night for their multiversal dramedy “," topping a talented field that included Hollywood royalty Steven Spielberg. “There is greatness in every single person,” Kwan said from the stage. “It doesn’t matter who we are, there is genius in every single person, you just have to find it. Thank you to the people who unlocked my genius.”
The Daniels came into the night the favorites for the Oscar, and their film, the top nominee with 11, hadScheinert dedicated the award to “all the mommies in the world,” and to his own parents. “Thank you for not squashing my creativity when I was making really disturbing horror films or really perverted comedy films or dressing in drag as a kid, which is a threat to nobody,” he said.
It was the second Oscar of the night for the duo, who earlier won best original screenplay, one of five statuettes their film won Sunday night, including best supporting actor for
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