The Oscar for Best Director has been awarded to The Daniels for Everything Everywhere All At Once, as just announced at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The award winner was presented with the famous gold statuette at the 95th Academy Awards.
Last year, Jane Campion became only the third woman in history to win a Best Director Oscar. That also marked the first time in history that two women had won the Best Director Oscar in consecutive years. The year prior, Chloé Zhao picked up the award for Nomadland. Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to win a directing Oscar, for 2009’s The Hurt Locker.
Daniels made their feature debut with the absurdist Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano film Swiss Army Man, about a man who uses what can best be described as a flatulent corpse as a means to escape from a desert island when he becomes stranded. When back on dry land, he drags the talking corpse on a voyage of bizarre discovery through the wilderness. Their films are unconventional by nature, and provide thought-provoking ideas like purpose, life and death — through a highly absurdist and stylised lens.
