If you carefully read Pete Hammond‘s Deadline assessment of the possible Oscar fortunes of Everything Everywhere All At Once, there’s reason to believe that it might lose.
One, Hammond writes that “critics can take credit” for putting this infuriating A24 release “into front-runner status” — overly obliging, finger-to-the-wind critics, he means, and not your grounded, rank-and-file industry types.
And two, EEAAO is “relatively weak in the crafts area” (no noms in visual FX, cinematography, production design, sound, hair and makeup), which “could be telling in its overall Academy appeal.” You bet your sweet booty!
Friendo: “Right now I think EEAAO is the Best Picture frontrunner, principally challenged by Top Gun: Maverick and The Banshees of Inisherin.
“Top Gun is a mood-lifter and one of the only ones. Banshees has no reason to win. EEAAO is a woke odyssey — essentially a movie that explains wokeness. Explore inner realms beyond traditional day-to-day life, and in so doing redefine reality. A female small-business owner with a queer daughter experiences a great awokening.”
