Oscars 2023: Jimmy Kimmel Zingers To Top Gun Fly-Over – 5 Highlights

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

Here are 5 different speaking factors from the Hollywood ceremony:

 Kimmel shines

The Academy’s determination to convey again late-night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel as Oscars host was broadly seen because the cautious selection of a “safe pair of hands” after final yr’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 creating a litany of unbelievable boasts and lies. Introducing the presenter of the award for finest 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 current web scandal surrounding Harry Styles fell flat, nevertheless. “I only talk about peace,” she deadpanned.

 Top Gun flyover 

The Oscars kicked off in unforgettable style, 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 take a position on what the planes had been doing above the Los Angeles skies.

The planes got here from the Flying Eagles squadron at a close-by California army 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 stated.

Slap jokes 

Kimmel additionally cracked a number of jokes about final yr’s stunning 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 one among Smith’s hit songs. Several film superheroes had been within the viewers and will shield him, he famous.

When the documentary part arrived, Kimmel famous that it was on the identical part of the night time “where we had that little skirmish last year. “Hopefully this time it goes off with out 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 all people else,” she joked to her co-presenter. “The coke will not be 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 “an authorized emotional help donkey, or at the least that is what we informed 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.