Will 'Everything' Take Everything In OSCARS??

Nominees: "All Quiet on the Western Front"; "Avatar: The Way of Water"; "The Banshees of Inisherin"; "Elvis"; "Everything Everywhere All at Once"; "The Fabelmans"; "T?r"; "Top Gun: Maverick"; "Triangle of Sadness"; "Women Talking." COYLE: I can't help feeling like this best picture field reflects our strange, jumbled movie world. Big-budget blockbusters, indie hits, acclaimed arthouse contenders mostly watched on video on demand, a German Netflix film and whatever it is, exactly, that you call "Elvis." Little in this race has gone as expected. Many of the once-presumed favorites - "Bardo," "Empire of Light," "White Noise" - fizzled. Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans" had the air of a sure-thing, but audiences didn't show up - a strike against any contender but a fatal blow for a Spielberg movie. Academy members, seemingly, have developed less of a taste for Oscar bait and instead thrown their support behind a movie that never had any designs on the Academy Awards: "Everything Everywhere All at Once." In an odd, mixed-up year, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's blissfully chaotic film has turned into an improbable Oscar runaway, cleaning up at all the predictive guild awards. This year, the road to best picture is paved with googly eyes. BAHR: I usually wish for chaos when a best picture winner is locked - but "Everything Everywhere" is about as chaotic (and inspired) a best picture winner as you can get. This would also make two years in a row that best picture went to films that premiered outside of the Cannes/Fall Festival stranglehold ("EEAAO" debuted at SXSW, "CODA" at Sundance). If anything is going to shake up the industry and the awards industrial complex, it's something like this ( and Andrea Riseborough ). Read Also : What documents does CalFresh need?