Suddenly, everywhere, all at once, the zany sci-fi adventure Everything Everywhere All at Once has pushed itself into front-running contention to win the Oscar best-picture race. The only question now is whether it can become the third movie in history to take home three acting awards as well.
Over the weekend, the film won a record four awards at the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) ceremony, including ensemble in a motion picture (which is effectively the equivalent of best picture). It was widely expected to pick up that prize, and Ke Huy Quan was always tipped to win best supporting actor, making him the first male Asian actor to win a SAG award for a performance in a film by an individual.
But Jamie Lee Curtis also took home the best-supporting-actress award, which had long been expected to have Angela Bassett’s name on it, for her performance in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. And Michelle Yeoh also upset the odds, triumphing in the best-actress category over favorite Cate Blanchett, whose performance in Todd Field’s dark drama Tár has won her multiple statuettes, including the BAFTA.
With Brendan Fraser winning the best-actor award for The Whale, taking the prize from under the nose of fellow frontrunners Austin Butler, who last week also won a BAFTA for his impersonation of Elvis, and Colin Farrell, who swept up at earlier awards ceremonies for The Banshees of Inisherin, there is actually a sense of jeopardy in the acting categories ahead of Oscar night on March 12.
And Everything Everywhere All at Once is now in a position where it could possibly match A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Network (1976) and take three acting awards. (As a small fact in passing, the really astonishing thing about Streetcar is that Marlon Brando was the actor who didn’t win—he was beaten in the best-actor category by Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen.)
The significance of the SAG Awards as a predictor of Oscar success is all about math. Not all 160,000 members of the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA are also members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but the vast majority of the 1,302 actors who are voting members of the academy are members of the union. Last year, the first signs that the feel-good drama CODA, about a hearing girl in a deaf family, was about to do well at the Oscars, upsetting the front-running The Power of the Dog, sprang from its triumph at the SAG Awards.
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