Everything Everywhere All At Once has cleaned up at the Oscars, winning three acting awards and the night's big prize, for best picture.

The multiverse sci-fi comedy took home seven awards in total, with history-making gongs for stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as the directing prize for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, aka "the Daniels".

Other big winners included Brendan Fraser, who was named best actor for his performance as a morbidly obese teacher in The Whale, while German anti-war epic All Quiet On The Western Front picked up four awards, including best international feature.

Sequels Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way Of Water and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever were all honoured too, taking home an award apiece.

But the night belonged to a film about laundry, taxes and exploring other universes - Everything Everywhere All At Once

Yeoh's best actress win makes her the first Asian woman to win the award in 94 years of the Oscars. Addressing all the women watching, the 60-year-old said: ":Ladies, never let anyone tell you you are past your prime."

She fought off competition from two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, Ana De Armas, Andrea Riseborough and Michelle Williams to win the award.

"For all the little boys and girls who look like me, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities," she said in her acceptance speech. "Dream big, dreams do come true."

She dedicated the award to her mother and "all the mums in the world because they are really the superheros and without them none of us would be here tonight".

She added: "This is history in the making."

'Ma, I just won an Oscar!'

Former child star Quan, who appeared in The Goonies and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom in the 1980s, received a standing ovation as he took to the stage to accept the award for best supporting actor earlier on in the evening.

"My mom is 84 years old and she is at home watching," he told the audience. "Ma, I just won an Oscar!"

Quan told how his story "started on a boat" and after spending a year in a refugee camp, "somehow I ended up here on Hollywood's biggest stage".

He continued: "They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe this is happening to me - this is the American dream."

For Curtis, 64, the win was about all the people who have supported her along the way.

"I know it looks like I am standing up here on my own but I am not," she said, getting emotional on stage. "There are hundreds of people and hundreds of people - we just won an Oscar.

"To my family, my beautiful husband, Christopher Guest, my daughters, Annie and Ruby, my sister Kelly - we just won an Oscar.

"To all of the people who have supported the genre movies that I have made for hundreds and hundreds of thousands - we just won an Oscar together."

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel, hosting for the third time, kicked off the night by entering the stage attached to a parachute, in a nod to best picture nominee Top Gun: Maverick.

He also made reference to last year's slap while praising the Irish talent nominated at this year's ceremony.

"Five Irish actors are nominated tonight, which meant the odds of another fight on stage just went way up," he said, prompting laughter from the audience and the cast members of The Banshees Of Inisherin.