Oscars 2023: Everything Everywhere All At Once wins Best Picture (and everything else)
The reality-breaking Daniels film has completed its incredible awards season run with a Best Picture win
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After sweeping the various Guild awards, to say nothing of big wins at the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once has taken home the ultimate prize of Awards Season: the Best Picture Oscar. That makes it the fifth movie to pull off this kind of sweep, with the others being Argo, No Country For Old Men, Slumdog Millionaire, and American Beauty.
Though this may have seemed impossible before the film became a sensation, when it was just the new movie from farty boner corpse directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (a.k.a. Daniels), this win seemed practically inevitable by the time Oscars night actually came around—and not just because one of the first awards of the night was Ke Huy Quan’s emotional Best Supporting Actor win. And also Jamie Lee Curtis for Best Supporting Actress. And then Paul Rogers won Best Editing. Oh, and Daniels won Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. The fact is, Everything Everywhere All At Once had the kind of awards season momentum that other movies dream of, to the point where even its competitors were probably rooting for it a little bit. After all, it did have 11 nominations, and it ended up winning a total of seven awards.
And all of this for a movie about hopping through a bizarre multiverse of hot dog fingers, secret chef raccoons, and googly eyes, all of which are there to ease you into a surprisingly emotional story about intergenerational trauma and how an infinite multiverse of infinite possibilities doesn’t necessarily mean that none of those possibilities matter: It means they all matter. After tonight, one thing is for sure: There have definitely been less interesting films to win Best Picture.
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EEAAO is the noise its fans made when it won.
Nepo baby and mediocre actress Jamie Lee Curtis wins over the brilliant, Yale educated Angela Bassett. Flock them! — Catherine_Tramell, Kensington, United Kingdom, 5 minutes ago
Wow, based crazed daily mail boomer, read them for filth Cathy.
Curtis is a great celebrity, and it sounds like from cast mates that she brings a lot to the general support on set, but Bassett and Hsu definitely gave the better performances.
It’s surreal that this very specifically current-avclub/2012-tumblr stab at discourse is actually out in the wild.
Among other things, this is the first science fiction film ever to win Best Picture.
Forgetting 2001 are we?
What? It wasn’t even nominated. Oliver! won that year (for Directing also).
Didn’t win. Best Picture for that year went to Oliver.
Wasn’t that The Shape of Water?
No, that one was a documentary.
I feel like the end of that one establishes the creature as a supernatural being so it’s more of a fantasy.
I think that’s considered Fantasy.
People love being pedantic about what genre the winners fall under. The Shape of Water is (for all intents and purposes) as much a sf film as EEAAO but people are going to argue that it was technically fantasy while ignoring that EEAAO could also be easily classified as fantasy because there’s a lot of overlap between the two genres.
You’ll see the same thing when someone tries to argue that The Silence of the Lambs is the first horror film to win Best Picture, “This film about the FBI turning to a cannibal for help in tracking down a serial killer who is abducting and murdering women to make a suit out of skin is technically a suspense/thriller.”
Fantasy and science fiction aren’t the same genres, so it’s not being pedantic to consider the two movies to fall in the two separate genres that they do.
You have a good point. Luckily I said there’s “a lot of overlap between the two genres” which is a lot different than saying sf = fantasy.
TSoW is about a man who evolved from amphibians instead of mammals (it’s been accused of ripping off one of the highest grossing sf films in the Soviet Union) that’s not anymore fantastical than EEAAO’s take on the multiverse. Do you also consider Doctor Strange and Loki science fiction? Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion characters? The inclusion of a multiverse does not science fiction make.
Aliens killed a fuckton of xenomorphs so Everything Everywhere All at Once could run.(I know people like to rag on James Cameron’s dialogue/scripts and so on but this scene is just masterful and even without a single spoken word, the alien queen and Ripley are clearly communicating.)
It’s not often that the world seems to love a piece of media to the same degree I do, but it’s still a nice feeling.
The death of monoculture kinda stinks.
I’m just glad that a film I actually wanted to watch (three times so far) actually was nominated for once, let alone won.
If you’ve wanted to watch it three times already, you really should just bite the bullet and watch it!
Grammar Police. You’re under arrest for indecent interpretation.
I know, right! I keep putting it on but for some reason my mind keeps jumping to an alternate dimension and I don’t get back until the credits are rolling and I’m wondering what I missed!… Maybe this film is my chapstick.
the beauty speeches from Yeoh and Ke! Daniel Kwan’s love for people! Rihanna’s performance, Travolta tearing up for Olivia, Stephanie Hsu’s beautiful musical moment and Byrne’s hot dog hands, Polley’s confidence up there for her win, Hong Chau’s support for Fraser, Halle Berry’s delight for Yeoh, it was just a genuinely sentimental and celebratory night!(except Gaga, she’s too far into the bit now lol. just get up and sing it girl, it’s just a song about fighter jets)
I feel like this is just going to kill interest in my spec script ‘Nothing, Nowhere, Over A Protracted Period’.
It was the best movie I saw in 2022, but rarely does the Oscars vote for the actual Best Movie