When a film like “Everything and Everywhere at the Same Time” by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, produced by “the” independent Hollywood studio A24, wins seven of the 11 Oscars for which it was nominated, including all minus Best Actor (which went to Brendan Fraser in “The Whale”), and films like “Os Fabelmans”, “Os Espíritos de Inisherin” and “Tár” leave the ceremony empty-handed, much is said.
Unsurprisingly, “Everything, Everywhere, At The Same Time” was the big Oscar winner.
Namely, that the frenzy as a system, the stylistic anarchy, the continuous flow of quotes, the intensive “pastiche” and the salad of cinematographic genres, wrapped in a plot that touches on current issues such as “diversity”, the clash of customs generations and the immigrant experience in the USA, are enough to create a huge “hype” and succeed in the most important awards of American cinema, voted for by industry members themselves, who are drawn to such a flashy report with a “thematically important” subtext. And if you go watch the animated series “Rick and Morty”, you will see that there was already a lot of “Everything everywhere at the same time”.
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On a night when João Gonzalez’s animated short “Ice Merchants” failed to win the respective Oscar — it lost to a film that partnered with heavyweights like JJ Abrams, Apple and the BBC — but still made history. for Portuguese cinema and our animation, surprises were few (one of them was the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Voice of Women”, by Sarah Polley” — but feminist activism had to be rewarded); and even the German “A Oeste Nada de Novo”, from Netflix, directed by Edward Berger, which takes many liberties with the original book by Erich Maria Remarque and rubs us in on the atrocities of war to better emphasize his anti-war attitude. “message”.-war, came out with four figures, almost all expected, by the way. The ceremony, thankfully, was shorter than in recent years, and also less politically “heavy” (despite the occasional eruptions of “awakening”).
Source: Observadora
