"Everything Everywhere All at Once" Cast Reflects on "Unbelievable" 11 Oscar Nominations

"I am overwhelmed and overjoyed with happiness!" the first-time Oscar nominee wrote on Instagram. "Every single person who worked on this film poured their heart and soul into it, and we are all so grateful to the Academy for recognising so many from our 'EEAAO' family. Playing Evelyn Wang has been one of the great privileges of my 40 year career. It is truly the role of a lifetime. Thank you to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for seeing me and for this opportunity, I will forever cherish this moment."

"Shouting out a HUGE thank you to @theacademy for this unbelievable honour," the actor shared on Instagram. "I am screaming so loud, I'm sure I'll lose my voice by the end of day. Thank you to EVERYONE who's reached out with congratulations and to ALL OF YOU who have been following me along on this incredible journey. I am so grateful to you all. This is for sure one of the happiest days of my life. CONGRATULATIONS to the entire #EEAAO family for our 11 nominations. And lastly, CONGRATULATIONS to our matriarch @michelleyeoh_official for her historic nomination. Cheers."

Shortly after a long flight from Sydney, Hsu spoke about the film's many nominations, including her own, in an interview with Good Morning America on 24 Jan. "The flight from Sydney is 15 hours and I knew this was going to be happening at the tail end of my flight, so I wanted to do a ritual and watch our movie one more time, as like a, 'No matter what happens this is the thing that we did,'" she said. "I love our movie so much. I love every single person who has poured so much of their hearts into this project. I feel like this is a big hug for us. We're the little scrappy ones in the corner that put together this big, insane thing, and I feel like everyone is really cheering us on. I feel very honoured. I get what that means now, an honour to be nominated."

Hsu also expressed her gratitude for the internet and her fans, which she "never knew [she] would have." She added, "I know that so many people have been rallying behind me and wanting to lift me up in this moment, so I feel so held by hundreds and thousands of anonymous people that I've never met."

Kwan reflected on the historic nominations in a lengthy caption on Instagram. "This morning, with the Oscar nominee announcement, it was hard not to imagine myself as a kid and how impossible this would have seemed to him," he wrote. "No one in my family worked in arts or entertainment, I didn't even think it was a possibility for me to make a living as a creative person. My entire childhood I would suppress my creative urges because I didn't think I had a future there. It also meant I spent most of childhood believing I had very little to offer the world."

He added, "I can't overemphasise how unexpected any of this was when we were shooting this film. The fact that we got to make this movie would have been enough for any of us."

Kwan also spoke about the Jan. 21 shooting in the predominantly Asian American community of Monterey Park, CA, writing, "It is bizarre and somewhat nauseating to be celebrating this morning after the string of tragedies that took place over the weekend. I wish us all the grace and space to process and heal in the chaos."