The Winners and Losers of the 2023 Oscars

In recent years, the Oscars have made some meaningful progress in regard to what types of movies can compete for Best Picture. It was three years ago that Parasite became the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture, which is still one of the coolest moments to ever happen in the show’s history. But even by the Academy’s new standards of open-mindedness, Everything Everywhere All at Once is a genuinely unprecedented Best Picture winner: a genre-bending indie film featuring multiverses, a terrifying void in the form of a giant everything bagel, fight scenes featuring butt plugs and fanny packs, and a raccoon controlling the body of a renowned chef. (All hail Raccacoonie.)