Everything Everywhere All At Once

After winning at the DGA, PGA, and SAG, the question is not whether 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' will win Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars but how ...

First it was The Fabelmans, then it was The Banshees of Inisherin, and now it’s All Quiet’s turn. Are we secretly living inside a reboot of the 2020 Best Picture race, when the season ultimately came down to a In comparison to dour titles like Tár and Women Talking, it’s pitched as a good time; while the rest of the field is lily white or The way to an Oscars voter’s ballot is through their hearts, and nearly a year after its release, the passion for this film hasn’t dissipated. Although the film takes place in a number of different realities — one in which humans have hot-dog fingers, another in which there’s no intelligent life whatsoever — its most important one is the universe where the world can be saved with a hug. As [94-year-old cast member James Hong](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/watch-james-hong-speech-for-eeao-win.html) said onstage at the SAG Awards, when he was starting out, leading Asian roles had been played by white actors in yellowface: “Producers said Asians are not box office. [blue](https://www.vulture.com/article/review-james-camerons-spectacular-avatar-the-way-of-water.html), its tale of financially struggling Chinese immigrants stands out even more. That’s a haul only the heaviest of Oscars hitters obtain — in the era of the preferential ballot, just Birdman, Argo, and The King’s Speech have done it. Even before its big wins, the awards strategists I surveyed conceded that the film would be hard to beat. There are nearly infinite reasons why this was not the way the race was predicted to go. On that front, Supporting Actor is a near lock and Best Director likely as well. Each of these individually would be a plumb prize for any awards hopeful: PGA because it uses the same preferential ballot the Oscars do; SAG because it represents actors, the Academy’s largest branch.