The Awards Race Has Turned into ‘Everything Everywhere’ All the Time

thewrap.com:

Everything Everywhere All at Once not just as a film title, but as a voting instruction. “Everything Everywhere” took the top award at Saturday night’s Producers Guild Awards and then won in every category it could at Sunday’s SAG Awards, setting a new record for the most SAG wins in a single night by one film.And an Oscar race that looked up in the air two days ago now has a seriously strong frontrunner.

The indie movie that was supposed to be too divisive to win is now on such a roll that it’s hard to imagine it not winning at the Dolby Theater in two weeks.Nothing is set in stone, but Sunday’s SAG Awards made the Best Picture race much clearer, gave Yeoh her first head-to-head victory over Cate Blanchett and dropped Curtis with a big bang into a supporting-actress race that was supposed to belong to Angela Bassett.And in news that has nothing to do with “Everything Everywhere,” SAG-AFTRA voters also gave “The Whale” star Brendan Fraser a needed boost at a time when Austin Butler’s performance in “Elvis” seemed to be picking up momentum in the Best Actor race.On Friday, I wrote a story outlining the things that all the major Best Picture contenders needed to do this weekend to take momentum into the start of Oscar voting on Thursday.For “Everything Everywhere,” I gave this as the 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.I didn’t expect it to check off everything on that list,.