Will the Daniels’ absurdist sci-fi pave the way for genre films to win Oscars … or is this just a glitch in the multiverse?
doesn’t take home best supporting actor for his turn as mild-mannered Waymond Wang and his more charismatic alternate-universe counterparts, it will be the greatest Oscars shock since all that stuff last year with Will Smith.
All in all, the film is nominated for 11 awards and has a good chance of carrying off at least six of them. But what if this is just a freak occurrence and next year we return to a reality in which fusty period romances, staid biopics and the occasional international arthouse drama are once again the order of the day?
One of the problems with the idea that the success of Everything Everywhere All at Once could set an Oscars precedent is that it is a movie that’s going to be almost impossible to mimic. Unless Marvel somehow manages to incorporate the Wangs into phase six of its never-ending superhero saga – and come on, the idea of Doctor Strange taking on the evil, universe-hopping Jobu Tupaki is surely more than a little enticing – we are probably not going to see its like again.
But if Everything Everywhere All at Once does sweep the board on Sunday, at least there would be a better chance that equally weird concoctions from the genre region of the multiverse – films such as Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko, Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Duncan Jones’s Source Code or Christopher Nolan’s Inception – would be looked on more favourably going forwards.
That’s a reality many of us would be willing to live in – provided it doesn’t also come with the prospect of having 10 delicious sausage fingers just aching to be slathered in ketchup and munched down with pickles and a tasty brioche roll.
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