This Year's Oscar Nominees React to Announcements

PUBLISHED JAN 24, 2023

Hollywood's biggest and brightest have been expressing their joy on nominations day.

The nominations for this year's Academy Awards were announced early this morning from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles, with Everything Everywhere All at Once leading the pack with 11 nominations, closely followed by All Quiet on the Western Front and The Banshees of Inisherin, which both have 9.

Everything Everywhere landed spots in three of the four acting categories, while other nominees came as no surprise after having won Golden Globes and Critics Choices Awards alike. It was a joyful morning for the cast and crew of a number of lauded films, including The Whale — which earned Brendan Fraser and Hong Chau nominations — Triangle of Sadness, Elvis, and Top Gun: Maverick, among others.

Naturally, it's a massive day for all nominees, who took to social media and released official statements to thank the Academy for recognizing their work. From long, thankful paragraphs to Roger Deakins' two sentences praising the hard work of his team on Empire of Light, the outpouring of love has been massive as Hollywood celebrates its best and brightest.

Read further to see the reactions of some of Hollywood's biggest names following their nominations. (AGBO Specific_

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Ke Huy Quan, Best Actor in a Supporting Role

I cannot even begin to describe how incredible this feeling is to be recognized as an Oscar nominee! Never in my wildest dreams could I imagine this moment. It still doesn’t feel real! Thank you so much to The Academy for this wonderful honor and for believing in our little movie. The outpouring of love and the warm welcome back is something I will cherish forever. To my fellow nominees - I am floored by your work, and I feel very lucky to be standing alongside you today. To my EEAAO family, CONGRATULATIONS! I love you!!!

Michelle Yeoh, Best Actress in a Leading Role

I am overwhelmed and overjoyed with happiness! Every single person who worked on this film poured their heart and soul into it, and we are all so grateful to the Academy for recognizing so many from our EEAAO family. Playing Evelyn Wang has been one of the great privileges of my 40 year career. It is truly the role of a lifetime. Thank you to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for seeing me and for this opportunity, I will forever cherish this moment.

Paul Rogers – Best Editing

What an honor! Thank you to my entire incredible team, and especially to Zoe Mao and Aashish D’Mello, two geniuses who saved our lives constantly throughout the editing process. And congratulations and thank you of course to my directors, my co-editors, and my friends: Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. ‘Nothing matters!‘

Jamie Lee Curtis, Best Actress in a Supporting Role

It was never even in my wildest dream box. I have always felt very much like an outsider looking in and yet always so grateful for any and all opportunities I have had. Being a part of this beautiful movie, which just received so many acknowledgments for our talented, motley crew of artists, is the highlight of my professional life. As this is a movie about a family of immigrants and their struggles through life, immediately I'm thinking of my parents, children of immigrants from Hungary and Denmark, whose families came here and sacrificed for their children to achieve their dreams. I can only imagine what it would feel like for them and their parents to hear that their daughter/granddaughter was nominated this morning for an Oscar. I am stunned and humbled and excited for our little movie that could and did and based on today's nominations, continues to do and do and do.

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sheinert (Writers and Directors), and Jonathan Wang (Producer) — Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Original Screenplay

Wow…we are still processing this surreal list of nominations, but we keep thinking about the folks who have celebrated our film this past year and have shared how much it has meant to them. You got us here and we can feel you celebrating alongside us this morning. Thank you!Also, being able to be a small part of Michelle’s legacy as she becomes the first Asian woman to be nominated for Best Actress, is an honor we will cherish all our days. Thank you to the Academy for this embarrassment of riches, thank you A24 for championing this movie from day one, and congrats to all our beautiful friends who got nominated this morning! We love you!

Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, and Mike Larocca (Producers via AGBO)

On behalf of everyone at AGBO, we are honored that the Academy has recognized Everything Everywhere All At Once. Huge congratulations to Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Stephanie Hsu, and the entire team responsible for the 11 outstanding nominations including Best Picture! The Daniels are innovative filmmakers who crafted a beautiful, transcendent film. We are proud to be a part of this film, and grateful for the Oscar nominations this morning.

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