Filmmaking duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, better known as the Daniels, have won the Best Director Oscar for All at Once Everywhere. The film has won seven awards, including best film.
“We want to dedicate this Oscar to all the mothers in the world, especially ours. I thank my parents for not restricting my creativity as a child, not even when I made perverted comedies”, said Scheinert upon receiving the award. Kwan, for his part, added that “geniuses emerge from the collective, we are the product of our history and I honor my parents’ immigrant past. I want to tell my children that they don’t have to feel pressure to overcome this, it’s not normal, it’s not a standard, it’s crazy.”
With this victory, the directors, who have also won the statuette for best screenplay, become the third filmmaking duo to win an Oscar for directing, after the Cohen brothers with No Country for Old Men and Robert Wise and Jerome Williams with West Side Story.
Despite the fact that they started as favourites, since they had already been winners of directing awards at the Critics Choice Awards, the Spirit of independent cinema, as well as the Directors Guild awards, it must be said that they were competing with great heavyweights in the industry, as Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans); Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin); Todd Field (Tár) or Ruben Östlund (The triangle of sadness).
This edition seems to have forgotten about the women in this category after two years with triumphs from women like Chloé Zhao and Jane Campion.
