Oscars 2023: 10 Ups & 5 Downs

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once Is An All-Timer Best Picture Winner

And finally, Everything Everywhere All at Once won its seventh and final Oscar for Best Picture, unquestionably making it one of the boldest and most adventurous winners of the top prize in Oscar history.

For a movie featuring multiverses, butt plug weapons, and Ratatouille parodies to win the biggest award in Hollywood is, frankly, astonishing, because who among us could've ever predicted this when we first saw the movie?

It's a fantastic rebuke to years of the Academy rewarding safe, pandering slop like Crash and Green Book - here's a film with serious creativity and heart behind it, and a totally unique perspective to boot.

That the famously crotchety Academy embraced something so wonderfully unhinged is majorly encouraging for the state of the Oscars - assuming, of course, that they don't pinball back to old habits next year, as they've done in the past after rewarding a more left-field movie.