The SAG Awards, coupled with the accolades at the PGA Gala, put “Everything Everywhere All At Once” in good stead for the Oscars on March 12.
The film Everything Everywhere All At Once, crazy comedy pouring into science fiction, accumulates the awards two weeks before the Oscars ceremony on March 12.
The most famous Hollywood producers named it Saturday, February 25 as best film. This new prize win is a blow to the hopes of rivals like Top Gun: Maverick with Tom Cruise, The Banshees of Inisherin, In the west, nothing is new And The Fabelmans. The awards presented at the Producers Guild Awards (PGA) gala are prized and considered a relatively reliable barometer in view of the Oscars. “Guys, this is madness. This is madness !“, launched producer Jonathan Wang, joined on stage by actors Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, both nominated for the Oscars respectively in the categories of best actress and best actor in a supporting role. Twelve of the last fifteen winners of the best picture at the Oscars first won the equivalent prize awarded by the PGA, including the last two winners CODA And nomadland.
Nominated 11 times for the Oscars
Everything Everywhere All At Once tells the story of a laundromat owner, played by Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh, exhausted by her administrative hassle with the tax authorities, suddenly immersed in parallel universes. The film was a smash hit last year, grossing some $100 million worldwide and being nominated for 11 Oscars. In addition to the Best Picture Oscar, its creators Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are also nominated for Best Director.
Michelle Yeoh already won a Golden Globe in early January. She is now the second Asian in Oscar history to be nominated for the Best Actress statuette and her duel with Cate Blanchett (Tar) promises to be hotly contested. The other characters in this feature film are also worth a nomination for the statuette for best supporting role to their performers, actor Ke Huy Quan and actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu.
Among the other films rewarded on Saturday by the PGA, Navalny devoted to the imprisoned Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny and nominated in the documentary category at the Oscars, won the prize for best documentary. The approximately 8,000 producers who voted on Saturday February 25 at the PGA ceremony also paid tribute to television, rewarding the series The White Lotus in the drama category and The Bear (comedy) as well as The Dropout for miniseries.
More diversity in Hollywood?
The absurd sci-fi comedy continued its ascent by winning yet another award, this time at the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) on Sunday February 27. Actress Michelle Yeoh won Best Actress, Ke Huy Quan won Best Supporting Actor, and Jamie Lee Curtis won Best Supporting Actress. Film patriarch James Hong, 94, was the center of attention at Sunday’s gala, receiving the award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture. He shared his thoughts on the time, when Hollywood entrusted white actors, in their “squinting eyes” (to curb them, editor’s note) the Asian main roles because the producers thought that “Asians weren’t good enough“.
An awesome moment when his fellow cast-mates honored him, and deservedly so. Give it up for the titan that is James Hong! #SAGAwards2023 #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce #JamesHong pic.twitter.com/RWAzJmXqUI
— SAG Awards® (@SAGawards) February 27, 2023
“But look at us now, huh “, he launched, to a huge ovation. Other winners of the mainly Asian cast of the film also referred to the long struggle for more diversity in Hollywood. This award “it’s not just for me, it’s for all the little girls that look like me“, argued Michelle Yeoh. Ke Huy Quan, who, after appearing as a child in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984, took a long hiatus from acting because there was ” so few opportunities“, noted that he was the first Asian actor to win in his category.
“When I learned this, I quickly realized that this moment was no longer just mine. It also belongs to all those who have worked for more diversity”did he declare.