Everything Everywhere sweeps Independent Spirit Awards

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Daniel Kwan speaks aft receiving the Best Feature award

By Chelsea Bailey

BBC News, Washington

Everything Everywhere All astatine Once swept the Independent Spirit Awards Saturday, taking location wins successful astir each large class and solidifying its Oscar frontrunner status.

The kinetic, multiverse-spanning, household opus won galore awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Editing.

Comedian Hasan Minhaj hosted the star-studded lawsuit unrecorded from Santa Monica Beach, California. The yearly grant amusement honours the champion successful autarkic movie and television.

This year, for the archetypal clip successful the award's 37-year history, the champion histrion categories were each sex neutral.

Minhaj began the nighttime with a hilarious and astatine times barbed roast of the nominees and the movie industry. At 1 point, helium embarrassed histrion Cate Blanchett truthful overmuch she crawled nether the table.

Actor Ke Huy Quan took location the archetypal grant of the nighttime for Best Supporting Actor for his show successful Everything Everywhere.

Quan, who has spent overmuch of his vocation moving down the scenes, utilized his code to praise the often-unsung crewmembers, from the roar operators to stunt coordinators, who marque films possible.

Later, Michelle Yeoh won for Best Lead Performance successful the movie and Stephanie Hsu took disconnected her shoes to tally onstage and judge the grant for Best Breakthrough Performance.

"This is my first-ever idiosyncratic award, and it feels incredibly due that it's successful this room," Hsu said.

It was besides a large nighttime for first-time nominees. Ayo Edebiri won Best Supporting Performance successful a New Scripted Series for her relation successful "The Bear."

Actor Sheryl Lee Ralph, who was besides nominated successful the aforesaid category, aboriginal reflected connected her however she spent overmuch of her aboriginal vocation begging Hollywood to diversify.

"I basal present contiguous having mislaid champion supporting histrion successful tv to Ayo," Ms Ralph said. "I person to honestly accidental that's what alteration looks like."

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Filmmaker Reid Davenport urged Hollywood to let disabled artists to archer their stories.

By acold 1 of the astir compelling moments of the nighttime was erstwhile filmmaker Reid Davenport's won the "Truer than Fiction" Award. Davenport's film, I Didn't See You There, charts his mundane beingness arsenic idiosyncratic who navigates the satellite successful a wheelchair owed to his disability.

"There are truthful galore disabled artists trying to get into this manufacture who are not fixed a chance," Mr Davenport said. "I inquire you humbly to fto them in. It's time." Davenport said.