‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Should Have Another Good Weekend – But It Has a Quiet Rival, Too
03.03.2023 - 22:49
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almost is key – because one film with enormous support throughout the Academy’s branches, the German-language “All Quiet on the Western Front,” wasn’t nominated for SAG, DGA, PGA or WGA awards. (It didn’t qualify for the last of those, at which a few major contenders are almost always ineligible.) It seems counterintuitive that a movie not even nominated for those top awards could beat a movie that has won them.
And yes, it would break all precedents: In the years in which those four top guilds have all been giving out awards, no film has ever won Best Picture without winning at least one of them. But like “CODA” last year, “All Quiet” was a late-breaking film that many voters didn’t get to until after some of the early guild voting had already happened.
It dominated BAFTA’s EE British Academy Film Awards, where “Everything Everywhere” won an editing award and nothing else. And for voters annoyed by the hyperkinetic “Everything Everywhere,” it may have quietly become a significant rival.
Will that be enough to seriously threaten the frontrunner? That’s unlikely, particularly as “Everything Everywhere” gets ready to roll through the last pre-Oscars weekend picking up hardware. The bottom line: I agree with virtually all of my colleagues in Oscar punditry, and with all available precedents, that “Everything Everywhere All at Once” will win Best Picture, and “All Quiet on the Western Front” will win Best International Feature Film and a couple of other categories.
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