Meet Paul Rogers, the Oscar-winning editor of 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' and the intern

• Film editor Paul Rogers won an Oscar for his work on "Everything Everywhere All at Once" Sunday.
• The internet quickly began thirsting over Rogers while he gave his acceptance speech.
• The Alabama native began his editing career in public television before meeting the Daniels.

At Sunday's Oscars, Paul Rogers won the award for best film editing for his work on "Everything Everywhere All at Once," which was only his second film.

Rogers appeared to be shocked by his win, telling the audience before his speech that the moment was "crazy."

"Wow, this is too much. This is my second film, y'all. This is crazy," he said.

According to IMDb, Rogers previously edited on the 2019 comedy-drama film "The Death of Dick Long." He also worked on the documentary "You Cannot Kill David Arquette" in 2020 and "The Eric Andre show" in 2016.

He also thanked his family and his wife Becky in his acceptance speech, but that didn't stop the internet from thirsting over him.

Rogers called his wife "the most incredible woman in the room" at the awards ceremony, but fans were quick to share their lust for the film editor anyway.

"Paul Rogers I didn't know who you were before 10 seconds ago but I kinda need you," one person tweeted.

"I'd give that editor everything everywhere all at once," another Twitter user joked. 

The thirst was also evident at the event itself. New York Times pop culture reporter Kyle Buchanan tweeted that a man sitting behind him at the Oscars commented that Rogers was "very good-looking."

Rogers is a Birmingham, Alabama native who began his professional career in public television.

Rogers and "Everything Everywhere All the Time" co-director Daniel Scheinert talked about their Birmingham roots in an interview with CBS 42 on March 9, with Rogers telling the outlet he missed local chain Milo's Hamburgers and "the sound of crickets at night."

He also told CBS he started his career editing documentaries for Alabama Public Television.

Although he and Scheinert didn't meet until they were both living in Los Angeles, they later worked on "The Death of Dick Long" together, which was shot in the greater Birmingham area, according to AL.com.

Rogers said he began editing films as a way of getting out of schoolwork.

He told Deadline in January that he and his friend would shoot movies instead of working on their final projects.

"I loved it and I had never felt that engaged and excited about anything creatively," he said.

He attended film school at the now-closed College of Sante Fe, CNBC reports. He said he learned he didn't have patience for the production process but loved letting his creativity shine through editing.

By his senior year, other student filmmakers were asking him to edit their work.

"I realized you don't have to just work on your own stuff, you could edit for other people," he said. "Which made the lightbulb go off of 'I think maybe I could get paid to do this.'"

He met "Everything Everywhere All at Once" directors Scheinert and Daniel Kwan at Scheinert's birthday party and worked with them on the "Turn Down for What" music video.

At the party, the directing duo asked him if he wanted to help them make a "silly music video" for the DJ Snake and Lil Jon song, he also told Deadline. The video turned out to be a major success, reaching 1.1 billion views on YouTube.

"That video was way bigger than any of us thought it would be, and it just kinda snowballed from there," he told the publication.

Although he said he was "excited and slightly terrified" when the Daniels offered him the "Everything Everywhere" job, his work paid off. In his speech at the Oscars, Rogers thanked the Daniels for being "incredible, kind, generous, strange, sexy people."

"We're not here because of the incredible, wonderful, strange, beautiful movies you make ... And if all of this goes away, we're still here with you," he said.

Rogers edited "Everything Everywhere All at Once" from home during the COVID-19 lockdown.

He told CNBC earlier this month the pandemic changed his work-life balance, allowing him to spend more time with his family and "jump back into the film" when he was excited to edit.

"I've found having a more intense and intentional separation between work and life has helped me have more enthusiasm and energy for my work," he said.

In total, Rogers won 35 awards for his work on the Daniels' sci-fi adventure film.

Although he won his first Oscar on Sunday, the editor has racked up plenty of other accolades for his work this awards season.

He won best editing at major shows like the Critics Choice Awards in January, the BAFTAs in February, and the Film Independent Spirit Awards on March 4, per IMDb.

Rogers also received an additional five nominations from several film festivals and the London Critics Circle Film Awards, where he was up for technical achievement of the year.

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