The new script's lead character was initially named Michelle Wang, after the film's lead actress Michelle Yeoh, who said, "If you ask the Daniels, when they started on this draft, they focused on, 'Well, we are doing this for Michelle Yeoh.'" [28] The character's name was eventually changed to Evelyn. With her resemblance to the version of Evelyn as a martial artist and film star, [29] Yeoh opposed naming the character Michelle. "Evelyn deserves her own story to be told. This is a very ordinary mother [and] housewife who is trying her best to be a good mother to her daughter, a good daughter to her father, a wife that's trying to keep the family together [...] I don't like to integrate me, Michelle Yeoh, into the characters that I play, because they all deserve their own journey and their stories to be told". [29] Ito, Robert (April 5, 2022). "Ke Huy Quan: From Short Round to Romantic Lead in Just Four Long Decades". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 3, 2022 . Retrieved May 3, 2022.

Looking up to the sky, she added: “And my mother and father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories, I just won an Oscar!” Format: 4K UHD Blu-ray. Type: 4K UHD Blu-ray. Title: Everything Everywhere All At Once. Missing Information?. Director: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert. Language: English. Everything Everywhere All at Once". Blu-ray.com. Archived from the original on May 10, 2022 . Retrieved May 11, 2022. Evelyn uncontrollably verse-jumps alongside Jobu across bizarre and diverse universes. Jobu reveals she does not want to fight at all, but that instead, she has been searching for an Evelyn who can see, as she does, that nothing matters, while killing the Evelyns that do not agree with her. She brings Evelyn to the Everything Bagel, explaining that she wants to use it to allow herself and Evelyn to truly die. Upon looking into the Bagel, Evelyn is initially persuaded, and behaves cruelly and nihilistically in her other universes, hurting those around her.Ryan, Maureen (April 8, 2022). "Ambitious, Outrageous 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Is All That and More". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on April 9, 2022 . Retrieved April 10, 2022.

Collis, Clark (March 10, 2022). "Jamie Lee Curtis on why she wanted to look as 'real' as possible in Everything Everywhere All at Once". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 20, 2023. The world premiere was at the South by Southwest film festival on March 11, 2022. [66] Its limited release in theaters was on March 25, 2022, [67] and its nationwide release was on April 8, in the United States by A24. [68] On March 30, 2022, the film was released in select IMAX theaters in the U.S. for one night only. Due to its popularity, the film returned to select IMAX theaters for one week starting on April 29, 2022. [69] [70] The film was not released in most parts of the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, due to censorship of LGBT issues in those countries. [71] The film was released in the United Kingdom on May 13, 2022. [72] The film was re-released in U.S. theaters on July 29, 2022, unchanged but adding an introduction by Daniels and eight minutes of outtakes after the credits. [73] [74] It was re-released again in U.S. theaters on January 27, 2023, on 1,400 screens to celebrate its Oscar nominations. [75] [76] Home media Teo, Sharlene (March 16, 2023). "The Oscar Success of Everything Everywhere All At Once is the Ultimate Validation of Asian Narratives". Harper's Bazaar . Retrieved April 1, 2023. Curtis won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role as Deirdre Beaubeirdre, an IRS agent who has several guises through different timelines in the multiverse.Everything Everywhere All at Once made Academy Awards history in several categories. Yeoh was the first woman of Chinese ethnicity to win Best Actress, the second woman of color after Halle Berry in 2002, and the first Malaysian to win any Academy Award. Stephanie Hsu's nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category, alongside Hong Chau's nomination for The Whale, marked the first time two actresses of Asian ethnicity were nominated in that category in the same year. Ke Huy Quan is the first Vietnam-born actor to win an Academy Award. It is also the first science-fiction film to win Best Picture, [126] and the first science-fiction film to win five of the top six Academy Awards. While no film has ever won in all four acting categories, it was the third to win three out of four, after A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Network (1976), [127] and the first to also win Best Picture. [128] For Deirdre's appearance, Kwan discovered a picture of a real IRS agent he found online, which Curtis liked and wanted to emulate. Curtis wanted the character to be as "real" as possible and used her real belly for the film, as opposed to a prosthetic. [42] Themes Accepting her award, Yeoh said: “For all the little boys and girls who look like me, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. Dream big, dreams do come true. Ladies, never let anyone tell you you are past your prime. Everything Everywhere All at Once has ended its run in movie theaters, it is now exclusively available to watch at home through either digital platforms or Blu-ray/DVD. The special features included as part of the physical copies of the movie have also been announced: