Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actress nominee Michelle Yeoh ('Everything Everywhere All at Once') talks to IndieWire about getting a seat at the Oscars table.

It was Yeoh who made the apt decision that her character not be named Michelle, as “the audience will be connecting me to her all the time, and then she won’t get a voice, [and] Evelyn needs a voice. And you need to give her that chance to be a superhero, to use her superpowers, which is love, which is patience, which is compassion, which is the feeling of never giving up because I will make it work, because it’s not for myself, but for my family, the people that I love,” said Yeoh. “So Evelyn was so important in that way.” “Everything had to be accentuated, you have to see the weariness on her face, and then in the way she walks, it’s always with the slouch,” said Yeoh. Merle Oberon, star of the 1935 film “The Night Angel,” received the same honor, but was never open about being of Asian descent for fear of losing out on leading roles. “It would make it more acceptable.” “For us to be promoting a movie for a year, it’s hard work. “It’d gotten to the norm. Please just get me nominated.’ And then you are thinking, ‘If I don’t get nominated, all these people will be so goddamn disappointed,’” the actress said. We want to be seen, we want to be heard, and tonight you’ve shown us that it is possible, and I’m grateful.” But as she acknowledged in her SAG Awards speech, saying “I know I’m up against titans, rightly so,” Yeoh is in a tight race with two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett, who gave a tour de force performance in “TÁR” that recently earned her [a BAFTA Award](https://www.indiewire.com/2023/02/bafta-awards-2023-winners-list-1234811598/). The dramedy, helmed by writer-director duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, follows a middle-aged Chinese immigrant named Evelyn who is swept into a zany, heart-rending, multi-versal adventure that revitalizes the emotional bonds she has with her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) and daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu).

After roughly 70 years in the business, actor James Hong, 94, earned his first Screen Actors Guild Award Sunday alongside his “Everything Everywhere All at ...

"But something inside me, inside of James Hong, wants to keep on going and do more movies and progress … "Maybe another 10 years when I'm looking down at this world and I say, 'Yeah, progress.'" I'm going to do other movies until I can't walk anymore and can't talk anymore. I try to find what makes the person really that person." Now, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" is a heavy favorite during awards season. Hong received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2022, making history as the oldest recipient to receive the honor. "I took those roles and then I used what my teachers had taught me and put the real feelings, even if it's a villain … Hong grew up in Minneapolis and got interested in acting when he was young, first inspired by Chinese opera performers who would visit his father's herb store. that over 50-plus years has nurtured actors Randall Park, George Takei, John Cho and others. Hong landed an agent and quit engineering for good. This is the busiest year I've ever had." After decades in the industry, Hong is getting greater public recognition for his work.

Will “Everything Everywhere All at Once” take the top prize as it did at the Producers Guild Awards the night before?

And will that movie’s lead, Michelle Yeoh, take the SAG for best actress, or will that honor go to Cate Blanchett for “Tár”? [Netflix’s YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/netflix) starting at 8 p.m. Or could Stephanie Hsu from “Everything Everywhere” sneak in?

The multiverse adventure picked up four major categories, while the White Lotus and Abbott Elementary won big for television.

“I share this with Michael Shannon, who I believe is one of our greatest living actors,” she said in her speech, before paying tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman, whom she called an inspiration. It was the first network show to win this award for nine years. “This was the best job I ever had,” said actor F Murray Abraham, before sending out a prayer to earthquake victims in Syria and those dealing with conflict in Ukraine. He said the moment no longer belonged to him, but to everyone who “asked for change”. “Thank you for giving me a seat at the table.” “I think if I speak, my heart will explode,” Yeoh said at the start of her emotional speech.

The A24 hit may be on the same path that took Parasite and CODA to the best-picture Oscar.

Notably, while A24 previously won a best-picture Oscar with Moonlight, this is the studio’s first SAG ensemble victory. Other instances of SAG leading the way in Academy forecasting include when underdogs like Spotlight and Parasite went all the way with the actors guild, despite other precursors like BAFTA passing them over. CODA went on to win with the Producers Guild, as Everything Everywhere did last night, and then the top Oscar. With several major guild wins as well as a dominant showing at the Critics Choice Awards last month, Everything Everywhere remains in pole position for the top Oscar. Along with Banshees, Everything Everywhere competed for SAG’s ensemble prize opposite fellow best-picture nominees The Fabelmans and Women Talking, both of which went home empty-handed with the guild, as well as the star-studded Babylon, which the Academy only nominated below the line in categories like production design and original score. The beloved A24 film won the top ensemble award from the Screen Actors Guild, an increasingly crucial bellwether in the race for best picture.

Her co-star Ke Huy Quan became the first Asian winner of best supporting actor, while there was a shock win for his co-star Jamie Lee Curtis in the supporting ...

producers said that Asians were not good enough and they are not box office - but look at us now," he said to cheers from the audience. "This is a really emotional moment for me." "And yet here we are tonight, the landscape looks so different now than before. "It made me feel like I belonged. "When I stepped away from acting, it's because there were so few opportunities," he said. "I know you look at me and think 'well, nepo baby, that's why she's there', and I get it," Curtis said. Wakanda Forever's Angela Bassett had previously been considered the most likely winner. Winners at the annual ceremony, held in Los Angeles, are voted for by other actors. The actress what a dream." Its four SAG awards are the most ever won by single film. "I got my first SAG card 70 years ago.

Michelle Yeoh ("Everything Everywhere All at Once") is the first Asian to win best actress in a film at the SAG Awards.

Ngor (“The Killing Fields”) for supporting actor, and Miyoshi Umeki (“Sayonara”) and the aforementioned Youn in supporting actress. The major precursors have embraced Cate Blanchett (“Tár”), who won the Golden Globe for lead actress drama, Critics Choice and BAFTA prizes thus far. Other Asian winners have come from the television categories, including two-time winner Sandra Oh (“Grey’s Anatomy” and “Killing Eve”) and “Squid Game” stars Lee Jung-jae and Hoyeon Jung at last year’s ceremony.

Ke Huy Quan ("Everything Everywhere All at Once") is the first Asian male to win a SAG film award for best supporting actor.

In addition, Hong Chau (“The Whale”) is nominated alongside Hsu, marking the first time in SAG history two Asians are nominated in the same category. [Oscars](https://variety.com/t/oscars/) in any of the four categories: Ben Kingsley (“Gandhi”) and F. Quan is the first Asian male to win a film acting award at the annual guild ceremony since its inception in 1994.

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" swept the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards, with both Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan making history.

[The Good Earth(Opens in a new tab)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikY9aQCAujw), the leading role was played by these [white] guys with their eyes taped up… Fortunately Hsu still got to stand on stage with her castmates to accept the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Meanwhile, Jamie Lee Curtis beat out co-star Stephanie Hsu to win Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.

Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenny Slate, Stephanie Hsu, Tallie Medel, James Hong, Andy Le, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Harry Shum Jr. and Brian Le accept the Outstanding ...

One award was announced ahead of the show from the red carpet: “Top Gun: Maverick” won for best stunt ensemble. “The White Lotus” also took a victory lap, winning best ensemble in a drama series and another win for Jennifer Coolidge, coming off her wins at the Emmys and the Golden Globes. Brunson, the sitcom's creator and one of its producers, said of her castmates, “These people bring me back down to Earth.” Though some have seen best actress as a toss-up between Yeoh and BAFTA winner Cate Blanchett (“Tar”), Yeoh again took home the award for best female lead performance. He brought up the ignoble yellowface history of the 1937 film “The Good Earth.” Only one film (“Apollo 13”) has won all three and not gone on to win best picture at the Oscars.

SAG awards are a robust indicator of how the Academy may vote for its individual acting categories. Actors make up the powerhouse voting group in the Academy ...

Colin Farrell for The Banshees Of Inisherin, too, must not be ruled out. - The Fabelmans Curtis meanwhile will vie with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s Angela Bassett – a winner at the SAG awards are a robust indicator of how the Academy may vote for its individual acting categories. Yeoh’s win reflects a wellspring of admiration for her performance as a stressed mother and small business owner whose world changes when she is sucked into alternate realities. It leads the field on 11 nominations.

SAG's film honourees are closely watched because actors comprise the largest group of Oscar voters. Read more at straitstimes.com.

It is the highest-grossing movie ever for film distributor A24. In the early days of his career, Hong recounted, producers said, “Asians were not good enough. An emotional Fraser said his younger self “never would have believed that I would have been offered the role of my life” of Charlie, the man in The Whale who “is on a raft of regrets in a sea of hope.” “The landscape looks so different now than before. And they are not box office. This is for every little girl that looks like me,” Yeoh said.

Much like her "Everything Everywhere All at Once" character, Michelle Yeoh has become an unstoppable force -- especially as she traipses through the 2023 ...

Yeoh took home a Golden Globe award for her performance in the film last month. In addition to Yeoh, co-stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan also won awards in their respective categories. [history](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/entertainment/ke-huy-quan-sag-award-2023/index.html) on Sunday as well, becoming the first Asian male to win a supporting actor award in the film category. “Thank you for giving me a seat at the table because so many of us need this. And tonight, you have shown us that it is possible, and I am grateful,” she said. [Screen Actors Guild Awards](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/entertainment/sag-awards-2023-winners-list/index.html) when she won the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role, becoming the first Asian woman to win in that category.

Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA) has handed out its awards with “Everything Everywhere All at Once” scooping up ten wins.

“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures) — Mark Weingarten (production sound mixer), James H. An Oscar winner, del Toro’s most recognized films have been “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006), “The Shape of Water” (2017), “Nightmare Alley” (2021) and “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (2022), for which he is nominated for nine awards including best picture and director. “Wakanda Forever” won prizes for costume design (Ruth E.

The night's final moment belonged to 94-year-old James Hong, a supporting player in the film and a trailblazer for Asian American representation in ...

One award was announced ahead of the show from the red carpet: "Top Gun: Maverick" won for best stunt ensemble. "The White Lotus" also took a victory lap, winning best ensemble in a drama series and another win for Jennifer Coolidge, coming off her wins at the Emmys and the Golden Globes. A year after winning for her lead performance in the film "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," Chastain won best female actor in a TV movie or limited series for Showtime's country music power couple series "George & Tammy." Brunson, the sitcom's creator and one of its producers, said of her castmates, "These people bring me back down to Earth." But it was Fraser who went home with the SAG Award for his comeback performance as an obese shut-in in "The Whale." Best actor has been one of the hardest races to call. He's also the first Asian to win best male supporting actor at the SAG Awards. Hong added that the cast of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" wasn't all Chinese, though he granted Jamie Lee Curtis had a good Chinese name. Only one film ("Apollo 13") had won all three and not gone on to win best picture at the Oscars. He brought up the ignoble yellowface history of the 1937 film "The Good Earth." Wahlberg, who said race wasn't a factor in the assault, served 45 days of a two-year sentence. "I know you look at me and think 'Nepo baby,'" said Curtis, who won in her first SAG nomination.

The sci-fi multiverse-hopping "Everything Everywhere All at Once" won the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night, the last stop on the road ...

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The film's stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis all received recognition for their performances and the award for best cast in a motion picture ...

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Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis won for Everything Everywhere All at Once at the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Abbott Elementary won the comedy ensemble award. Just four films had managed to receive three since the awards began in 1995. [Everything Everywhere All at Once ](https://collider.com/movie/everything-everywhere-all-at-once/)stopped off at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and smashed records along the way.

The multiverse adventure scooped the Best Motion Picture Cast award, putting it as the front runner for Oscars success in two weeks time.

His win for the Darren Aronofsky-directed picture continues a hugely successful comeback for Fraser. The SAG award for best male movie actor went to Brendan Fraser for playing a struggling, severely obese man trying to reconnect with his daughter in The Whale. His win for Male Actor in a Supporting Role marked the first time an Asian had won in the category. The movie has also been a commercial success, selling over $107 million worth of tickets and it’s the highest-grossing movie ever for indie distributor A24. The landscape looks so different now than before. He’d appeared in 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as a child star but had given up acting for years.

Three actors from the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won important awards from the Screen Actors Guild event on Sunday.

Four of the actors are nominated, including Yeoh for best actress, Curtis and Stephanie Hsu for best supporting actress and Quan for best supporting actor. [vote] for the Academy Awards. James Hong is also a member of the cast. Or you may create one on the Disqus system. Jamie Lee Curtis is 64 years old and the daughter of two famous Hollywood stars: Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Our comment policy is Quan is a Vietnamese American actor who became known in the 1980s when he was a boy. Movie fans in other parts of the world learned about Yeoh when she appeared in a James Bond film in 1997. Three actors from the film won awards. She said: “I’m 64 years old and this is amazing.” As he grew older, he was not able to get many more acting roles and mostly dropped out of the business. She acted in many films in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s.

After winning at the DGA, PGA, and SAG, the question is not whether 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' will win Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars but how ...

First it was The Fabelmans, then it was The Banshees of Inisherin, and now it’s All Quiet’s turn. Are we secretly living inside a reboot of the 2020 Best Picture race, when the season ultimately came down to a In comparison to dour titles like Tár and Women Talking, it’s pitched as a good time; while the rest of the field is lily white or The way to an Oscars voter’s ballot is through their hearts, and nearly a year after its release, the passion for this film hasn’t dissipated. Although the film takes place in a number of different realities — one in which humans have hot-dog fingers, another in which there’s no intelligent life whatsoever — its most important one is the universe where the world can be saved with a hug. As [94-year-old cast member James Hong](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/watch-james-hong-speech-for-eeao-win.html) said onstage at the SAG Awards, when he was starting out, leading Asian roles had been played by white actors in yellowface: “Producers said Asians are not box office. [blue](https://www.vulture.com/article/review-james-camerons-spectacular-avatar-the-way-of-water.html), its tale of financially struggling Chinese immigrants stands out even more. That’s a haul only the heaviest of Oscars hitters obtain — in the era of the preferential ballot, just Birdman, Argo, and The King’s Speech have done it. Even before its big wins, the awards strategists I surveyed conceded that the film would be hard to beat. There are nearly infinite reasons why this was not the way the race was predicted to go. On that front, Supporting Actor is a near lock and Best Director likely as well. Each of these individually would be a plumb prize for any awards hopeful: PGA because it uses the same preferential ballot the Oscars do; SAG because it represents actors, the Academy’s largest branch.

This weird, hilarious multiverse fantasy has more fresh ideas than the rest of Hollywood's output put together, plus buckets of heart and phenomenal ...

The 60-year-old Malaysian star became the first performer of south-east Asian descent to be nominated in the best actress category and Yeoh could be heading for a history-making win. If it does take home the award, it’ll be a resounding victory for original thinkers and original stories. Having picked up prizes at most of the major awards this season (and given the As an exploration of generational trauma, the burden of regret and the meaning of life, it is genuinely affecting. Just as the story revolves around a woman who has been overlooked and ignored, you can sense that Yeoh, a bona fide action superstar who often has to play second or third fiddle in her Hollywood outings, knows that this is finally her time to shine. All those ideas would be dismissed as mere gimmicks if the film didn’t have any heart to it, and that’s something Everything Everywhere All at Once has in buckets. I wouldn’t be surprised if Academy voters decided to play it safe by plumping for something cosy and familiar like As she inhabits all the different versions of Evelyn across the parallel worlds, she delivers a phenomenal, multifaceted turn that is fierce, goofy and empathic. Clearly, this is film-making that resonates with audiences on a deep emotional level. It’s increasingly rare these days for independent films to become commercial hits, but Everything Everywhere All at Once grossed more than $100m worldwide thanks to good old-fashioned word of mouth, with many fans heading back to the cinema for multiple viewings. And that’s exactly why it would be a worthy winner. Or fight sequences using a giant butt plug and a fanny pack as weapons?

Everything Everywhere All At Once is a reminder of the power of wild swings, a celebration of new ideas. Will the Oscars reward it?

Diversity is at the heart of Everything Everywhere All At Once. None of them have a scene set in a world where everyone has long hot dog wieners for fingers. [TheBanshees of Inisherin](https://wordpress.bigissue.com/opinion/the-banshees-of-inisherin-is-a-curious-tonic-for-these-bleak-times/), TÁR), the popcorn spectacles (Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way of Water) the historicals and biopics (All Quiet on the Western Front, [Elvis](https://wordpress.bigissue.com/culture/music/elvis-presley-the-68-comeback-special-and-the-radical-rocker-that-never-was/)) and literally whatever film Steven Spielberg has made most recently.

The awards season success for Everything Everywhere All At Once marks a step change in Asian representation in cinema. Here Laura Coughlin explains why.

Quan was the closest I got. Shorty was cheeky, he could do Taekwondo, and he was Asian. I was cheeky, learning Karate, and half Malaysian.

As a kid, Quan appeared in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies. But he quit acting when he couldn't land good roles.

And I want you to come join the [Marvel Cinematic Universe] family.' And I was just so happy. And I was doing that a lot. And I was scared all of a sudden, because I thought Everything Everywhere was a one-time thing and it brought me back to those times when I was in my late teens and early 20s where I was auditioning and not landing anything. He was an associate producer at that time, and he is And we finished the movie and I was like everybody else, staying at home trying to be safe. "It was a role that I thought was written for me, and I was just so excited." And so they would have to just do any job they can that was being offered to them to put food on our table, just so that we can have a better future. "I gave him a big hug and I said, 'Steven, I hope I make you proud tonight.' And he says, 'Ke, you made me proud when you were just 12 years old.' And it was just so good to give him that hug." So he went to audition and I tagged along and as he was auditioning, I was behind the camera, coaching him what to do. And I did, walked into the room and there was Harrison Ford, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. ... And so I got in touch ... Quan says stepping in front of the camera for the first time in 20 years made him feel alive: "I felt whatever that was missing all those years.

Quan told Insider the intense shooting schedule was worth it though because "we all wanted to work with Michelle Yeoh."

In a lot of ways, I still feel the same, but I think I appreciate a lot more, because of what I was going through when I was younger and now I look at this with a different perspective." "I'm really happy," Quan told Insider. Despite the demanding schedule, Quan described every day as being a "gift." After the film premiered in March 2022, Even with his newfound fame in the 1980s, roles for Asian Americans remained scarce. "But we all came together, because we believed in the script, we believed in the vision of the Daniels, and we all wanted to work with Michelle Yeoh."