It Is ‘Everything’ Everywhere This Weekend, But Oscar Race Is Shaken In More Ways Than One – Analysis
27.02.2023 - 08:51
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There can be no doubt the champagne corks are popping at Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Whale indie distributor A24 tonight. Not only did it see a record-setting performance at the SAG Awards, where it won all five of the movie categories (other than the non-televised stunt ensemble), but also Saturday night, where it took the top Best Picture award at the Producers Guild. Both often are Oscar-prescient guild awards shows that last year, and in many others, have foretold just exactly what would happen at the Academy Awards — not always but often.
With just two weeks to go before Oscar Sunday, and with final voting beginning Thursday, things are only going to get better for Everything Everywhere All at Once, which so far also has taken the very telling DGA top prize last weekend, as well as the often predictive Critics Choice Awards, where it won Best Picture, Director, Screenplay and two others. Next weekend it is heavily favored to win Original Screenplay at the WGA Awards and also is favored to reign over the Independent Spirit Awards as well.
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Statistically this is daunting information for any other film hoping to compete and upset this now-unquestioned Oscar front-runner. Since they started giving out PGA, DGA, SAG, and WGA Awards collectively, no film has swept all four major guilds and gone on to lose the Best Picture Oscar. Throw in Everything Everywhere’s Critics Choice triumph, and anticipated Spirits win — only a prediction on WGA and Spirits at this point — and you have a juggernaut in an unprecedented position to triumph on Oscar night.
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