If Everything Everywhere All at Once is up can beat Avatar’s sequel, The Way of Water, for Best Picture, it will be part of a very small club of sci-fi—or sci-fi-adjacent—movies to take home the trophy. Oscars95
made inroads for the fantasy genre back in 2003. But never has a movie about a woman who skips through several alternate versions of her life to try to save the multiverse ever taken the top prize—or even been considered for it.
The Daniels’ movie is so bizarre—with its hot-dog fingers and philosophical everything bagels—that there has obviously never been a movie like it, period. Let alone one that got nominated for a staggering 11 Oscars . But beyond that,’s impressive run shows not only a long overdue shift in who gets nominated for Academy Awards, but also what style of films do.Everything
is a brilliant piece of filmmaking, a gut-punch of a story about family and surviving in America. But the level of attention it’s getting from the Academy and elsewhere signals a new understanding of what sci-fi is and can be.
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