Oscars 2023: Jimmy appeared onstage with a donkey. (courtesy: Myung J. Chun /Getty Images)

Everything Everywhere All at Once gained high honors on the Oscars on Sunday, claiming seven prizes together with greatest image.

Here are 5 different speaking factors from the Hollywood ceremony:

 Kimmel shines

The Academy’s resolution to carry again late-night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel as Oscars host was broadly seen because the cautious selection of a “safe pair of hands” after final 12 months’s slap-shaped controversy. But Kimmel, who has twice hosted earlier than, delivered a pointy, witty efficiency, with loads of political zingers.

Topics included Fox News’ protection of the US Capitol riots, which host Tucker Carlson just lately tried to downplay, and beleaguered Congressman George Santos, who has been accused of constructing a litany of inconceivable boasts and lies. Introducing the presenter of the award for greatest movie modifying, Kimmel quipped: “Editors can turn 44,000 hours of violent insurrection footage into a respectful sight-seeing tour of the Capitol.”

Later, he joked: “Did you know… the last directing team to win an Oscar was Congressman George Santos?”

Kimmel’s try to attract Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai right into a dialogue a few latest web scandal surrounding Harry Styles fell flat, nonetheless. “I only talk about peace,” she deadpanned.

 Top Gun flyover 

The Oscars kicked off in unforgettable trend, as two US Navy fighter jets roared over Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, in a tribute to nominated movie Top Gun: Maverick. Residents ran outside and took to social media to invest on what the planes have been doing above the Los Angeles skies.

The planes got here from the Flying Eagles squadron at a close-by California navy air base, the Academy later revealed in a press release. “A huge thank you to the US Navy for helping execute a once-in-a-lifetime Oscars opening,” the present’s producers mentioned.

Slap jokes 

Kimmel additionally cracked a number of jokes about final 12 months’s surprising second when Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock on stage for cracking a joke about his spouse. “If any of you get mad at a joke and decide you want to get jiggy with it — it’s not going to be easy,” vowed Kimmel, referring to lyrics from considered one of Smith’s hit songs. Several film superheroes have been within the viewers and will defend him, he famous.

When the documentary part arrived, Kimmel famous that it was on the similar part of the night time “where we had that little skirmish last year. “Hopefully this time it goes off and not using a hitch. Or at the least with out Hitch,” he said. Smith starred in a 2005 romantic comedy of the same name.

Cocaine Bear and a donkey

Animals were an unlikely feature of the 95th Academy Awards broadcast. In one of the night’s more surreal moments, Elizabeth Banks, the director of comedy-horror hit Cocaine Bear, presented the award for best visual effects alongside a person in a giant bear costume. Banks’ film is based on a true story of a wild beast who overdosed on narcotics — and the Oscars bear pretended to signal to audience members that he was craving cocaine.

“You want to attend until the after-party like everyone else,” she joked to her co-presenter. “The coke is just not actual. It’s visible results, proper?” Elsewhere, Kimmel appeared onstage with a donkey which he claimed was Jenny — the beloved pet of Colin Farrell’s character in best picture nominee The Banshees of Inisherin.

Jenny had been allowed to fly from Ireland because she is “a licensed emotional help donkey, or at the least that is what we advised the airline,” Kimmel joked.

Indie studio reigns

From deep-pocketed streamers like Netflix to traditional Tinseltown powerhouses like Warner Bros, Disney and Universal, this award season has seen studios spend big on their Oscars hopefuls. But small, indie arthouse distributor A24 walked away with an astonishing sweep of the top prizes, including all four acting awards, thanks to Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Whale.

Everything Everywhere took best picture, best director, best actress and four other prizes, while The Whale had best actor and best makeup and hairstyling. “This is EVERYTHING,” tweeted the studio’s official account Sunday.