In a two-day-old (1.17) Oscar assessment piece, Variety’s Clayton Davis dutifully reported what almost everyone except for guys like Bobby Peru have accepted since the ‘22 / ‘23 Oscar season began several months ago, which is that Everything Everywhere All At Once is probably too divisive (read: hated by the over-45 crowd) to prevail in the Best Picture category unless international voters come to its rescue (“rally round the flag, boys!”).
