The best actress Oscar goes to Michelle Yeoh for her performance as a frazzled laundromat owner who traverses the multiverse in Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s genre-twisting hit “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

Yeoh is a veteran of Hong Kong and Hollywood cinema who rose to fame as an action hero and gained an international following in popular films such as “Tomorrow Never Dies” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” 

In recent years, Yeoh co-starred in the blockbusters “Crazy Rich Asians” and “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” an entry in the sprawling Marvel franchise. She earned some of the best reviews of her career for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

She previously won a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her work in the movie.

As we neared the 3½ hour mark, Kimmel's jokes were entering political territory.

"The last directing team to win an Oscar was Congressman George Santos," he quipped.

The best actor Oscar goes to Brendan Fraser for his emotionally searing performance as a 600-pound writing instructor reckoning with regret in Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” — a role that earned him the best reviews of his career even as the film drew accusations of fatphobia.

"Gentlemen, you laid your whale-sized hearts bare so we could see into your souls like no one else could do, and it is my honor to be nominated in this category," he said of his fellow nominees.

Fraser’s victory represents a remarkable comeback for an actor who dominated multiplexes in the late 1990s and the 2000s with box-office hits like “The Mummy” but stepped away from the limelight in recent years as he grappled with personal and professional challenges. In the lead-up to the Oscars, some admirers dubbed his career resurgence “the Brenaissance.” 

He previously took home the prize for best male actor in a motion picture at this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as The Daniels, gave another shoutout to mothers during their acceptance speech for best director.

"We want to dedicate this to all the mommies in the world," Scheinert said. We noted earlier that many winners tonight have shouted out their mothers during their acceptance speeches.

Scheinert also thanked his parents as well for encouraging his creativity.

They ended the speech by encouraging the creativity of others who want make art.

"There is greatness in every single person," Kwan said. "You have genius that is waiting to erupt."

Three hours and 20 minutes later and there are still three categories left ... Hollywood seems to be making longer movies and even longer awards shows about movies.

Daniel Scheinert said "drag is a threat to nobody" in his speech accepting the award for best director alongside his co-director, Daniel Kwan, referring to recent state bills to ban drag performances.

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" has some of the strangest, most intense quick edits, in which the audience is pulled through every multiverse imaginable — including googly-eyed rocks. So it's no wonder the film won for best editing this evening.

The best director Oscar goes to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — the filmmaking duo known simply as “Daniels” — for the genre-twisting sci-fi smash “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

Kwan and Scheinert are first-time nominees and winners who broke into the cultural mainstream last year with “Everything Everywhere,” which stars Michelle Yeoh as an exhausted laundromat owner who discovers the mysteries of the multiverse.

The filmmakers previously co-directed “Swiss Army Man,” an absurdist fable co-starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe. Scheinert also directed the independent drama “The Death of Dick Long.”

In the 94-year history of the Academy Awards, only two other filmmaking duos have won the directing Oscar: Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, for the original adaptation of “West Side Story,” and brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, for “No Country for Old Men.”

The hit song "Naatu Naatu" from "RRR" took the Oscar for best original song, marking a huge victory for South Indian cinema on the global stage. It's the first song from an Indian film to win in the category.

Composer M. M. Keeravani sang his acceptance speech to the tune of one of his childhood favorite songs.

“I grew up listening to the Carpenters, now here I am with the Oscars," he said before beginning to sing to the tune "I'm on the Top of the World." "There was only one wish on my mind...”

A Telugu-language banger, "Naatu Naatu" rocketed to viral fame on TikTok last year, bringing international attention to the now-blockbuster movie.