00:00It's been a year and a day since Everything Everywhere All at Once, premiered at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. No one proclaimed it an Oscar contender then.
00:13But that was before it became a box office hit, before we were reintroduced to Kei Hoi Kwan, before Jamie Lee Curtis turned into a weapon of mass promotion.
00:22Now, on the eve of the Oscars, this loopy, frenetic family drama appears poised to win Best Picture, along with several other awards.
00:36If it duplicates its showing at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, netting individual honors for Kwan and Curtis along with star Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once, would become just the third movie to win three acting Oscars.
00:52The others, a streetcar named Desire, and Network. That would be a lot, particularly because in the last decade or so, Oscar voters have spread the love each year among several movies.
01:06The last Best Picture winner to take more than four Oscars? That was The Artist, in 2012, a triumph that, like many other moments in Oscar history, hasn't aged particularly well.
01:18The thing is, it feels like ages since, Everything Everywhere All at Once, lost. Anything. The movie swept through the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild, the Screen Actors Guild and the Independent Spirit Awards.
01:33How many hot dog finger high fives will be happening at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday? Here are my final predictions for each and every category.
01:46Picture, all quiet on the Western Front, Avatar, The Way of Water, The Banshees of Inassurance, Elvis, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fablemans, Tar, Top Gun, Maverick, Triangle of Sadness, Women Talking, Will Win, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
02:06As voting began, I was on the phone with a mo.
02:12So what's going to win, I asked. After a long silence, they replied, I don't know. But it can't be that.
02:24For a lot of Academy members, Everything Everywhere All at Once, with its googly-eyed rocks, hot dog fingers and weaponized dildos, has been a test of both their patience and belief in traditional storytelling.
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