The absurdist comedy-action-drama-comedyEverything Everywhere All at Oncehas won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the95th Academy Awards. Written, directed, and co-produced by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, a filmmaking duo collectively known as The Daniels,Everything Everywhere All at Oncetakes audiences on a journey through a multiverse of madness as martial icon Michelle Yeoh’s everywoman is suddenly tasked with saving not just the world, but reality itself.
Everything Everywhere All at Oncebeats out the likes ofAll Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, The Fabelmans, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick, Triangle of Sadness,andWomen Talkingfor the Oscar for Best Picture, and finds the wonderfully bizarre, emotional action movie take home the big prize after so, so much well-deserved success.
Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings)leadsEverything Everywhere All at Onceas Evelyn Wang, a dissatisfied and overwhelmed laundromat owner who simply wants to get her taxes in order. But before she can even organize her paperwork, Evelyn must first face a threat even bigger than the Internal Revenue Service.
She is suddenly dragged into a battle for multiverse, a battle that only she can win, when an interdimensional rupture unravels reality. Evelyn becomes the unlikeliest of heroes as she must connect to alternate versions of herself, channel her newfound powers, and fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once Has Been a Huge Success for A24
The supporting cast starring alongside Yeoh includes Stephanie Hsu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Poker Face) as Joy Wang, Evelyn’s daughter; Ke Huy Quan (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies) as Waymond Wang, Evelyn’s meek, adorable husband; Hollywood legend James Hong (Big Trouble in Little China, theKung Fu Pandafranchise) as Gong Gong, Evelyn’s demanding father; Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween Ends, Knives Out) as Deirdre Beaubeirdre, a dreaded IRS inspector; as well as Jenny Slate (Bob’s Burgers) and Harry Shum Jr. (Crazy Rich Asians, Glee).
Everything Everywhere All at Oncehas been a huge success for A24,receiving praise from both critics and audiences alikeas well as becomingthe highest grossing release ever for the studio. The movie has been nominated for, and won, all manner of awards since landing in theaters back in March last year.
Thanks to its career-best performances from its principal cast, as well as its tackling of, rather aptly, everything all at once including existentialism, nihilism, absurdism, depression, generation gap, and the Asian-American identity and experience, has been awarded two Golden Globe Awards, five Critics' Choice Awards, one BAFTA Award, four SAG Awards, and seven Independent Spirit Awards.Everything Everywhere All at Oncewas ultimately nominated for a total of 11 Academy Awards, the most this year, including Best Director for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schienert, Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, and Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan.
