(Los Angeles) Hollywood’s Most Famous Producers Named Saturday Best Picture Everything Everywhere All At Oncea wacky science-fiction comedy that racks up awards two weeks before the Oscars on March 12.
This new award won by Everything Everywhere All At Once deals a blow to the hopes of rivals like Top Gun: Maverick with Tom Cruise, The Banshees of Inisherin, Ain’t nothing new in the West 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 crazy. 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 Best Picture winners at the Oscars have won the equivalent PGA award first, including the last two winners CODA And nomadland.
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 earning 11 Oscar nominations.
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.
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Actress Michelle Yeoh poses with her Golden Globe for Best Actress in January.
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 nearly 8,000 producers who voted on Saturday at the PGA ceremony also paid tribute to television, rewarding series The White Lotus in the drama category and The Bear (comedy) as well as The Dropout for miniseries.