Swank Congratulates the Winners of the 95th Annual Oscars®

The A24 film capped off its amazing award season run by winning the night’s biggest honor: Best Picture. The film, an outlandish adventure about a Chinese-American laundromat owner dealing with an IRS audit and inter-dimensional attackers, earned seven statues in total, including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Editing. Three of the films actors also received statues for their roles, including Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Actress (Michelle Yeoh). The film’s wins were a breakthrough for Asian representation at the Oscars: Yeoh became the first self-identified Asian woman to win Best Actress, and just the second woman of color ever to win the award. “For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities,” Yeoh shared in her acceptance speech. “This is proof that dreams do come true… And ladies, don’t let anyone tell you that you are past your prime.”

Brendan Fraser is back in the spotlight after his first Oscar win for Best Actor in the A24 film. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, Fraser plays a 600-pound online writing instructor who’s trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter. The film also won for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Fraser had previously won Best Actor at the Screen Actors Guild and Critics’ Choice awards, and received nominations for the role for the Baftas and Golden Globes.  

The number one movie of 2022 took home a statue for Best Sound thanks to its hyper-real soundscape. The win was 36 years in the making as the original “Top Gun” film was nominated for the same Oscar in 1987, but lost to “Platoons.”

Sarah Polley won Best Adapted Screenplay for “Women Talking.” The film focuses on a group of women living in isolation in a Mennonite colony. After discovering the men in their community are committing atrocious acts of abuse against many of them, they come together to decide what they should do: leave and never look back, or stay and fight back. "First of all, I just want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words 'women' and 'talking' put so close together like that," Polley said during her acceptance speech. She concluded by sharing the last line from the film, which is delivered to a newborn baby: "Your story will be different from ours." She explains: "It's a promise, a commitment, an anchor, and it's what I would like to say with all of my might to my three incredible kids.”

Costume designer Ruth E. Carter became the first Black woman to win two Oscars when she won for Best Costume Design. She previously won in 2019 for the first “Black Panther” film. During her acceptance speech, Carter said: "Thank you to the Academy for recognizing the superhero that is a Black woman.”

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