ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: DIRECTING - EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
By Oscars® and Academy Awards® and Olivia Marshall
First Published 14/03/2023
Location: LA
"EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE"
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
DANIEL SCHEINERT: Our fellow nominees -- you guys are our heroes. This is weird. We want to dedicate this to the mommies. All the mommies in the world. To our moms, specifically, my mom and dad, Ken and Becky. Thank you for not squashing my creativity when I was making really disturbing horror films or really perverted comedy films or dressing in drag as a kid, which is a threat to nobody. And, yeah, thank you to everybody who worked in our movie.
DANIEL KWAN: I know every director agrees with me when I say a director is nothing without their incredible cast and crew. This is my family, my friends. If our movie has greatness and genius, it's only because they have greatness and genius flowing through their hearts and souls and minds. And they gave that precious gift to our film. The world is opening up to the fact that genius does not stem from individuals like us on stage, but genius emerges from the collective. We are products of our context. We are descendants of something and someone. And I want to acknowledge my context. My immigrant parents -- my father who fell in love with movies because he needed to escape the world and, thus, passed that love of movies onto me. My mother, who is a creative soul, who wanted to be a dancer, actor, and singer, but could not afford the life of that life path and, then, gave it to me. My incredible brothers and sister, who helped me survive the chaos of childhood. My friends from high school who taught me sorry. I'm just going to keep going. The RCCC -- you taught me the liberating freedom of creativity and joy. And your DNA is in this film as well. My incredible son, Gio, rearranged my DNA every day. And it's awful and beautiful every single time. If you ever watch this, I hope you know that you should never have to live up to this standard. This is not normal. This is kind of crazy. I will love you no matter what. And the last thing, I just want to go back to my original point. There is greatness is every single person. It does not matter who they are. You have a genius that is waiting to erupt. You just need to find the right people to unlock that. Thank you so much to everyone who has unlocked my genius. This means so much to us. Thank you to the Academy.