‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Daniels Are Third Duo To Win Best Director At Oscars
deadline.com“We’ve come a long way that two men can share an Oscar,” joked Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel after the commercial break following Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s win for Best Director for A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once. RELATED: Oscar Winners List The duo become the third directing pair to take home the Oscar for Best Director after Joel and Ethan Coen for 2008’s No Country for Old Men and Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise in 1962 for West Side Story.
The Daniels previously won Best Original Screenplay earlier tonight. Overall, Everything Everywhere All at Once counted seven Oscar wins, including Best Picture, out of its 11 noms.
The pair met at Emerson College and cut their teeth as music video directors before segueing to feature film. Scheinert said “I want to dedicate this to all the mommies of the world, to our moms specifically to my mom and dad, Ken and Becky, 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.” RELATED: Best Director Winners Of All Time — Photo Gallery Kwan, who became the fifth Asian/AAPI winner in the Oscar directing category after Ang Lee (twice for Life of Pi and Brokeback Mountain), Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) and Chloe Zhao (Nomadland) thanked the cast and crew. “This is my family, my friends.
If our film has greatness and genius it’s only because they have greatness and genius flowing through their hearts and souls and minds and they gave that precious gift to our film.
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