'Everything at once everywhere' arrives at the Oscars as the favorite after sweeping the previous awards

A film that starts from a Chinese laundry to dive into multiple parallel universes is shaping up to be the favorite heading into Oscar night.

It is not exactly the message that the industry expected at a time when Hollywood blockbusters generally come out of the multiverse billed by Marvel.

The film community has found something in

, a production of the independent studio A24, to make it a success of generation Z. The film has closed the awards season with force.

Its cast loaded with Asian actors and its tone have injected freshness and surprises into the campaign for the Academy Award.

She is the great favorite to succeed on Sunday March 12, where she competes in eleven categories.

Whenever a film has entered the final stretch winning the previous awards (those from the producers, actors, directors and screenwriters unions) it has ended up winning the Oscar.

On Sunday it was the turn of the writers, who endorsed the exotic plot written by the Daniels.

“Writing is hard and very confusing.

Many times we feel very lost,” Kwan said upon receiving the award.

The Writers Guild of America gala exalted this unclassifiable film that achieves something not seen for eleven years.

It is the first since

to conquer the poker of producers, directors, writers and screenwriters.

The support of these unions is enough to win the most coveted Oscar statuette of the night.

No production that has conquered them has then been left without the award for best film.

Previously, at the Spirit Awards, the independent film awards.

Directed by the duo known as the Daniels, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the film won seven of its eight Spirit Awards nominations on Saturday, including best picture, best direction, best acting (Michelle Yeoh) and best screenplay.

In 2021, Chloe Zhao's

also triumphed at these independent awards before winning the Best Picture Oscar.

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The different guilds have already given signs that make

the movie to beat.

They are nods that have come out of the producers' awards, the Producers Guild of America (PGA), and at the gala organized by the actors' guild, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).

In these, the film made history by breaking the record for the most union awards with four wins.

They won Yeoh for Lead Actress (the first Asian to win Best Actress at the SAGs);

Jamie Lee Curtis as a supporting actress, and Ke Huy Quan as a supporting actor.

The cast also took home the grand prize for their work.

Michelle Yeoh won the acting award at the Spirit Awards, delivered this Saturday in Santa Monica. MARIO ANZUONI (REUTERS)

The story of

has been full of surprises since it hit US screens in March of last year.

In it, Evelyn Wang (Yeoh), a laundromat owner, must battle an audit conducted by a cantankerous tax clerk (Jamie Lee Curtis) as her family dynamic unravels over a breakup with her daughter (Stephanie Hsu). .

What sounds like a conventional story is on screen a cinematic experience with a big twist from the moment Wang discovers that his life experience is different in other universes where humans have sausage fingers, there are talking raccoons and a bagel

can destroy the existence of humanity.

Originally, the Danielses wrote the lead role for a male.

They first offered it to Jackie Chan, the legend of martial arts cinema, but later the directors corrected it and focused on a family mother.

Thus it fell into the hands of Yeoh, a 60-year-old actress who also has a long filmography within Hong Kong action cinema and who jumped to the United States in 1997 to make Tomorrow Never Dies, one of the James Bond

of Pierce Brosnan.

The film premiered at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, an unlikely starting point to win the Oscars.

The production has at the center of its bizarre way of narrating a message about the importance of the traditional family and has been adding conquests.

It became the first A24 studio film to surpass $100 million at the box office, one of the most notorious milestones in the industry.

social success

Then they knew how to transfer their phenomenon off the screen.

His followers have shelled out $36 to get some latex gloves with sausage fingers, offered by the same producer.

The company raised half a million dollars last week by auctioning off parts of the production to donate to three organizations.

The top-grossing item was the Raccacoonie raccoon puppet, voiced by singer-songwriter Randy Newman.

The Daniels have been innovating since filming 2016's

, where Daniel Radcliffe is a corpse who befriends a man (Paul Dano) on a deserted island.

If the multiverse of

gave the fictional characters unlimited opportunities, the same has happened with part of the cast.

Ke Huy Quan, the story's co-star as Wang's husband, had retired from the industry decades ago.

This despite the fact that he was a child actor with roles in

and

He is the favorite to win the Oscar for best supporting actor

Jamie Lee Curtis is the big doubt heading into Academy Awards night.

Her category, best supporting actress, is one of the most competitive, with Ángela Basset as the favourite, who won the Golden Globe for

.

But Curtis, 64, walked away with the actors' award, which brings her closer to Oscar glory.

In an emotional speech in front of the members of the SAG, the actress of the Halloween saga remembered her parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

Despite being the daughter of two industry giants, it took an irreverent sci-fi film for her to earn her first Oscar nomination in more than 40 years.