Inside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, surrounded by A-list movie stars, Daniel Scheinert took a moment to shout out his hometown during the Oscars.

The director of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which won seven Academy Awards including best picture, filmed a selfie video message for his friends at Sidewalk Film, which hosted an Oscar party Sunday night.

“Hey, tell everybody at the Sidewalk Cinema that I love Sidewalk,” Scheinert said in the video. “I love Alabama. I hope you guys have fun.”

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Scheinert then moved the phone camera back a few inches for a wider shot of the vast theater space behind him.

“An amazing shoutout straight from the Academy Awards!” Sidewalk’s Instagram caption sharing the video said. “Congratulations again to the Daniels and the rest of the EEAAO team.”

Film fans gathered at the Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema Sunday night for the venue’s annual Oscar party and to cheer on the Birmingham filmmakers who were in the running for multiple awards. Fans could fill out ballots, watch the ceremony and enjoy various giveaways as they watched Scheinert and his colleagues make Alabama film history.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” won Oscars for best picture, directing (Scheinert and Daniel Kwan), original screenplay (Scheinert and Daniel Kwan), actress (Michelle Yeoh), supporting actor (Ke Huy Quan), supporting actress (Jamie Lee Curtis) and editing (Alabama native Paul Rogers). It led all nominees with 11 total at the 95th Annual Academy Awards.

Born in Birmingham, Scheinert attended Oak Mountain Elementary and Middle Schools before going to high school in Shades Valley. His parents, Ken and Becky, now live in Guntersville. His dad said Scheinert got into filmmaking through local competitions and musical theater during high school.

“But the film bug, it was 20 percent just me doing what my brother did, because he and his friends were all making movies for fun, and they had a public access TV show that they only made like two episodes of, but I loved it,” Scheinert told AL.com last year. “And Sidewalk Film Festival just blew my mind when I made a movie in high school with my best friends and it played for an audience and they liked it. I was like, ‘This is incredible.’ So we just started trying to make movies and do all the Sidewalk Scrambles and enter all the competitions. I interned at Sidewalk Film Festival for a while, and it became my favorite thing to do my last three years of high school.”

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He has not hesitated to show love to Alabama during the film’s incredible award season run, shouting out several teachers during his original screenplay Oscar win and Sidewalk Film Festival during a win at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Even the tuxedo he wore was local — Scheinert bought it at Scottsboro’s Unclaimed Baggage store.

The feeling is mutual between Scheinert and Sidewalk, which he still calls his favorite film festival. Sidewalk executive director Chloe Cook told AL.com her phone blew up after the Spirit Award shout-out, which she insisted said a lot about Scheinert’s character. “My personal reaction was I feel like Daniel’s acknowledgement of Sidewalk in that setting, along with lots of other individuals and organizations that he had longstanding relationships with, I think it’s really indicative of who he is as a person.”

“My encounters with him over the 15 or so years that I’ve been at Sidewalk have always led me to believe that he’s really just quite genuine and very full of heart and very aware of the fact that he’s from Alabama,” she said. “And that his path is not one that’s been walked by many other Alabamians. I feel like all those things sort of added together. I wasn’t surprised that he acknowledged the relationship with Sidewalk. I was thrilled by it, but I wasn’t surprised because I feel like it’s in line with who he is as a person.”

Read more about Scheinert’s relationship to Alabama, Sidewalk, his parents and his Oscar-winning film.

Watch Scheinert’s video below.