Everything Everywhere All at Once wins (nearly) all at SAG Awards, setting stage for Oscars
- ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ cements its status as the front-runner for best picture prize at next month’s Oscars
- The dimension-hopping adventure grabbed the top movie honour at the Screen Actors Guild awards on Sunday
Absurdist sci-fi comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once continued its dominance of this year’s Hollywood award shows by earning top honours from the Screen Actors Guild.
The film about a Chinese-American family undergoing a tax audit who end up fighting a universe-hopping supervillain also won best actress for Michelle Yeoh, best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan, and best supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis.
The movie’s 94-year-old patriarch James Hong stole the show at Sunday’s gala, collecting the night’s final prize of best cast in a motion picture – the star-studded ceremony’s equivalent of best film.
Hong reflected on how Hollywood once cast white actors with “their eyes taped up” to play leading Asian roles because producers thought “the Asians are not good enough and they are not box office”.
“But look at us now, huh?” he said, to a huge ovation.
The SAG prizes from the actors’ union round out a month in which Everything Everywhere All At Once has won best film from directors’ and producers’ groups too, making it the firm favourite for the Oscars next month.