Which Best Picture winner stars Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang?
Answer
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Best Picture winner starring Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang is Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the 2022 film follows Evelyn Quan Wang, a Chinese-American immigrant running a struggling laundromat while facing an IRS audit, marital strain, and conflict with her daughter Joy. Evelyn discovers that parallel-universe versions of herself can be accessed through “verse-jumping,” giving her improbable skills needed to confront a multiversal threat.
Michelle Yeoh’s performance anchors a film that combines science fiction, martial arts, absurdist comedy, family drama, and an immigrant story. Its deliberately chaotic imagery includes the Everything Bagel, a toroidal object associated with Jobu Tupaki, an alternate version of Joy.
At the 95th Academy Awards, the film won seven of its 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Yeoh, Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan, and Best Supporting Actress for Jamie Lee Curtis. A common mistake is treating it as only a superhero or multiverse movie; its emotional core is Evelyn’s changing relationship with her family.