The grand prize. Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars on Sunday, March 12.
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Bethlyn Hand, the former Senior Vice President of Advertising and Administration for the Motion Picture Association, passed away on February 14. The cause was Alzheimer’s disease, her brother Lloyd Hand said. She was 85.
A veteran of the MPA, Hand joined the org soon after Jack Valenti was made President, and remained for 37 years. Valenti said in 2003, “She was by my side at the very beginning of my tenure at the MPAA. I got a lot of credit for what she did.”
Hand played a crucial role in approving or declining marketing campaigns according to the guidelines of the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings program and became a well-known figure in the industry.
She grew up in Houston and majored in journalism at the University of Texas, then began her career in 1966 when she moved to Washington DC and worked alongside Valenti. Nine years later, Hand moved to Los Angeles to head up the MPAA’s advertising division.
Hand was a member of the public relations branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and served on the Public Relations Coordinating Committee. She also served as Vice Chairman of the California Film Commission.
Upon her retirement in 2003, Hand said, “It has been a wonderfully rewarding career in which I have made long-lasting friendships.”
Hand is survived by her brother and sister- in-law, Lloyd and Ann Hand, three nieces, five great nieces and nephews and four great-great nieces and nephews. She also loved her dogs and watching her beloved Texas Longhorns win.
Said Lloyd Hand, “All in our family have felt Bethlyn’s love and loyalty and benefited at times from her generosity. Her passing leaves a void in all our lives but she will forever live on in our hearts.”
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The grand prize. Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars on Sunday, March 12.
scoring the award for Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars.Harrison Ford presented the award onstage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, where Hollywood’s biggest stars gathered to celebrate the big night, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who had won earlier in the evening, were joined on stage by the entire cast to accept the historic award.“The world is changing rapidly and I fear our stories are not keeping at pace and sometimes it’s a little scary,” Kwan said, “but I have great faith in these stories.”“Everything Everywhere All At Once” received more Oscar nominations than any film this year with a whopping 11: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, two for Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Score and Best Song.The movie ended up winning seven of the 11 noms, including Best Picture, Best Actress for star Michelle Yeoh and Best Director for filmmakers Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan.The film was the movie to beat this year, having won the top prizes at both the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Producers Guild Awards.The comedy-drama beat “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Elvis,” “The Fabelmans,” “Tár,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Triangle of Sadness” and “Women Talking” for Oscar victory.“Everything Everywhere All At Once” made history as the first sci-fi film to ever win Best Picture.The movie stars Michelle Yeoh — who won Best Actress — as a Chinese immigrant who is swept into parallel universes in order to save all of existence and connects with the other lives she could have led.“Everything Everywhere All At Once” is also the first film to win
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