Boom or Bust? How a Winning Awards Weekend Can Impact the Top Oscar Contenders
thewrap.com“Everything Everywhere All at Once”Current status: Presumed frontrunner, with reservations.Best-case scenario: It wins Producers Guild on Saturday and SAG ensemble on Sunday to give it a formidable trifecta with the Directors Guild Award it already won.
And if it wants to rub it in, supporting-actor lock Ke Huy Quan is joined in the SAG winners’ circle when Michelle Yeoh scores an upset over Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis does the same over Angela Bassett or Kerry Condon.Good scenario: A Producers Guild win and at least one SAG individual win.
For “Everything Everywhere,” PGA would make it a clear leader and SAG ensemble would be the icing on the cake … or the icing on the everything bagel, as it were.Worst-case scenario: It loses PGA to one of its main rivals and can only manage a win for Quan at SAG.
The big question about the chaotic and freewheeling “Everything Everywhere” has always been whether can win over the older Academy voters, or whether it’s too polarizing and divisive to become the kind of consensus favorite that ranked-choice voting looks for.
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