Everything Everywhere All at Once

Will the Daniels' absurdist sci-fi pave the way for genre films to win Oscars … or is this just a glitch in the multiverse?

All in all, the film is nominated for 11 awards and has a good chance of carrying off at least six of them. Incredibly, it’s starting to look as if the first piece in the puzzle is moving into position. The assembled glitterati have made their way to the Dolby theatre in Los Angeles, but things are not as they used to be.

After 10 years of hiding my queer identity, I finally came out to my mom at the kitchen table of my childhood home in Irvine. Tearfully reading a letter ...

Instead of asking me why I wouldn’t just marry a man to fit into society, queer movies like “Bohemian Rhapsody” pushed my parents to consider why As she grows more comfortable with our movie nights and the possibility of my queer life lived happily ever after, I am reminded that we are a species that fears what we do not understand. The film captured exactly what my mom and I couldn’t previously communicate to each other. When Evelyn tearfully declares to Joy, “No matter what, I still want to be here with you,” I finally understood my mom — perhaps for the first time. Tearfully reading a letter full of “I know’s” and “I’m sorry’s,” I looked up, expecting her to disown me. After 10 years of hiding my queer identity, I finally came out to my mom at the kitchen table of my childhood home in Irvine.

Exclusive: We chat with Everything Everywhere producer Jonathan Wang and awards experts about the role film festivals like SXSW play during Oscar season.

“I think it’s great to not be in the pressure position of being the first big film festival of the year or the festival that’s going to have all the Oscar nominees,” Godfrey says. “I have to give kudos to A24 for believing that this would be this sort of event that would be loud,” Wang says, acknowledging it was the studio who decided to submit for SXSW, as opposed to Sundance or TIFF, in part because of the festival’s more genre-loving, idiosyncratic audience. Simmons in [Whiplash](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/whiplash-review/); Emerald Fennell’s script for [Promising Young Woman](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/promising-young-woman-costumes-clothing/). [Blonde](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/blonde-review-ana-de-armas-marilyn-monroe-deserve-better/) debuted at Venice,” says Davis. Among the big four of the fall, Venice is always the first since it’s also the oldest festival in the world, beginning in 1932. after debuting at other festivals (Tár, The Banshees of Inisherin, Decision to Leave) and those that still premiered elsewhere but were not yet out in general theaters, such as The Whale. “I see the distinction [between them], but the average person probably does not.” Nearly 44 percent of the last 15 years of Best Picture nominees, and over 85 percent of the winners, premiered at those fests. Ever since Crash (2005) became the first Best Picture winner to be acquired at a festival (the A dazzlingly original film that marries the existential weight of the universe to the intimacy of the Asian American immigrant experience—and all by way of multiverse theory, martial arts, and those marvelous hot dog fingers—the movie appeared to be a perfect opening night film for a festival at the intersection of cinema, music, technology, and just plain old innovation. [Oscars telecast](https://www.denofgeek.com/the-oscars/) beams out of the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 12, it will be one year and a day since Everything Everywhere All at Once enjoyed its world premiere at the [SXSW Film Festival](https://www.denofgeek.com/sxsw/). “There’s a video of me in the Zoom being like, ‘We’re on pace for 11,’ and everyone’s like, ‘What are you talking about?!’” Wang recalls. And to Jonathan Wang, producer of [Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-best-multiverse-movie/), it was nothing short of surreal as he realized their little movie with wobbly hot dog fingers was on track to score 11 Oscar nominations—making it this year’s de facto frontrunner.

Comedy-drama “Everything Everywhere All at Once” will likely take Best Picture at Sunday's Academy Awards, but there's potential for upsets and surprises.

“All Quiet” might also have the edge for Best Cinematography, Best Sound and Best Original Score, a haul which could make it one of the night’s biggest winners. - Another likely single Oscar winner is “Naatu Naatu,” the tune from an incredible dance in action epic “RRR,” which is competing for Best Original Song. But “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” has been almost unstoppable on the awards circuit and will likely win at the Oscars. Why: Could there by anything more original than the story of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” in which a family of Asian-American laundromat owners have to transform themselves into multiple avengers to save and/or destroy a multitude of universes? But this could also be a place where voters honour “The Banshees of Inisherin,” which owes so much to writer/director Martin McDonagh’s wicked sense of humour, and there’s much merit in fellow rivals “Tár” (my personal pick), “The Fabelmans” and “Triangle of Sadness.” Most pundits give it the win, but there’s major Canuck content in main rival “Fire of Love,” a volcanic romance produced by Montreal’s Ina Fichman and American-Canadian Shane Boris. The other contenders — “Living,” “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” — all have their supporters, but likely not enough to make a difference. The two might well split the “Banshees” vote. Why: In theory, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” has this category all sewn up. “Everything Everywhere” achieved the nifty feat of winning top prizes bestowed by guilds for producers, directors, actors and writers, a potent combination that historically leads directly to Best Picture at the Oscars. I was also hugely impressed with Bill Nighy in “Living” and Paul Mescal in “Aftersun,” films I counted among favourites of 2022. If I had a vote it would go to “Tár,” an original story about power, celebrity and cancel culture that I wanted to talk about more than any other film this past year — with the exception of Jordan Peele’s sci-fi saga “Nope,” which didn’t get a single Oscar nom.

Everything Everywhere All At Once's Costume Designer Shirley Kurata on the Meaning of a Chinatown Cardigan, and Finding Her Oscars Fit (Hint: It's Rodarte). By ...

We spoke to Kurata a week after winning a Costume Designer’s Guild Award for Excellence in Sci-Fi film, and three days ahead of the Academy Awards ceremony itself about Rodarte’s return to New York last month, the process of putting together costumes for the film, and how she’s preparing for her big night ahead. Kurata’s costumes add an indelible layer of meaning—and sometimes humor—to the film, culminating in an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design. Kurata, who is also a stylist, has worked alongside [Rodarte](https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/designer/rodarte)’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy since they first launched their label in 2006, and was a frequent collaborator of [Opening Ceremony](https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/designer/opening-ceremony) and Kenzo’s Humberto Leon and Carol Lim.

'Everything Everywhere All At Once' was an indie spring release, while most Oscar heavy hitters premiere at prestigious fall film festivals.

The bagel is, in many ways, a microcosm for the film. [own Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_Everything_Everywhere_All_at_Once). [half a million dollars](https://deadline.com/2022/03/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-a24-specialty-box-office-rrr-1234987724/) in its opening weekend. [Rise](https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/Rise): A Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now. But then there is, of course, the everything bagel. The report revealed that 20 nominations, or 9% of all Asian nominees, were named in 2023—the highest number and percentage yet. Smith, the founder of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. [return to acting](https://www.gq.com/story/ke-huy-quan-everything-everywhere-all-at-once) after nearly two decades away. The Producers Guild (PGA) bestowed the film its top honor. The Writers Guild (WGA) named Everything Everywhere Best Original Screenplay. But they really are this weird sense of us clutching at the hem of the Hollywood establishment.” The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) showered it with awards.

The watch is everything. The movie is everywhere. And in our timepiece-related film of the week, we talk about them both – all at once.

As flashes of light and multiple dimensions flood the screen, we see Waymond and Evelyn embrace. "That's why he has a fanny pack, and wanted to throw back to a vintage Casio style for him because I love all of Qe's movies. The conceit of the film is that Yeoh's character, Evelyn, is a multiversal hero with a unique ability to save a world on the brink of destruction. In a way, it's an Easter egg in a film filled with Easter eggs. It was Bramer who filled me in on his choice to match Quan's character Waymond with a vintage-meets-modern Casio digital watch, what appears to be the A158WA. She is able to jump through realities using early-aughts-style Bluetooth headsets on both of her ears and she is coached by her husband …

Sci-fi action-comedy family drama is favored in most top categories at Sunday's Academy Awards.

The chatter: "Everything Everywhere" director duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, won't be the first pair to win a co-Best Director trophy — the Coen Brothers won for "No Country for Old Men" in 2007, and Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise won for "West Side Story" in 1961 — but they will be the latest, completing the near-sweep of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" at the top of the show. The chatter: Ideally, every Oscar year has a heartwarming narrative that everyone can get behind, and this year it's Ke Huy Quan, the former child actor (you remember him from "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "The Goonies") who flushed out of Hollywood for a long time and came roaring back in "Everything Everywhere All at Once." Bassett is powerful in "Black Panther," Condon is terrific in "Banshees" and Curtis, well, it's great to see Curtis in a movie where she isn't battling Michael Myers. The one sure thing in this category is that Hong Chau was nominated for the wrong movie — it should have been "The Menu," where she was an ice-cold scene stealer. Take him out of the race and it's possible that Keoghan gets a look for "Banshees" and that viral clip from the movie that shows him going through about six shades of heartbreak in 60 seconds, but this race is all Quan, all the time, all at once. It could go either way here, but we're going with the "Elvis" actor to be crowned King. The chatter: The year's most nominated film (it has 11 nods total), the wildly inventive "Everything Everywhere All at Once," which is like if every movie in your streaming queue somehow played at the same time, is favored to win here, having already won top honors at the Directors Guild of America Awards, Producers Guild of America Awards, Writers Guild of America Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Several of the evening's big categories are wide open, including Best Picture, where the wackadoodle genre mashup "Everything Everywhere All at Once" is favored to win, unless that prize goes to the World War I drama "All Quiet on the Western Front," or if the mega-blockbuster "Top Gun: Maverick" somehow swoops in and takes top honors. The Best Actor race is a lock for "Elvis" star Austin Butler, unless comeback kid Brendan Fraser takes the trophy for "The Whale." You can crunch the results of the various guild awards, you can play the politics of the various categories and nominees, but in the end, it all comes down to a gut feeling. There's a school of thought that says the Academy's older voters may brisk at "Everything Everywhere's" fluid approach to genre and style, and may instead favor the more conventional war epic "All Quiet on the Western Front," itself a time-honored Oscar brand (the 1930 version was a previous Best Picture winner). And then there's the Best Supporting Actress category, an all-out wrestling match between "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's" Angela Bassett, "The Banshees of Inisherin's" Kerry Condon and "Everything Everywhere All at Once's" Jamie Lee Curtis.

Critic Michael Cuby makes the case for the Oscar frontrunner to take home the gold.

And yes, there was the one and only Michelle Yeoh showing off some expertly choreographed martial artistry, much as she did in the four-time Oscar winner Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. With an astounding 11 nominations, it is [the most nominated film of this year](https://www.them.us/story/oscars-2023-tar-the-whale-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-lgbt-nominations), and after winning a [slew](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2023/02/19/everything-everywhere-all-once-daniel-kwan-scheinert-win-dga-award/11299756002/) of [precursor](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/producers-guild-of-america-awards-2023-winners-list) [awards](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/everything-everywhere-comes-big-sag-awards-rcna72403), has taken the lead as frontrunner. The last film to do so? It was an easy triumph to celebrate, but it wasn’t without fault. So while we toasted the win for diversity, it also felt like this forward step came with a footnote, saying, “You can get excited — but not too excited.” The win was historic.

Big Nose is a character in the film played by Jenny Slate, who's introduced on-screen by Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) reacting in shock when she sees her. She says of ...

But that doesn’t make the “Big Nose” character any less troubling, and it certainly doesn’t absolve the film of including the stereotype. “It's nothing to do with the Jewish people, which now we're realizing, ‘Oh, fuck.’” The Daniels also explained that there was more to Slate’s character, and there was a redemption filmed, but it ended up on the cutting room floor. Whether the cut footage would have alleviated the antisemitic undertones is impossible to know, and the fact that the stereotype’s meaning in Chinese culture differs from that elsewhere doesn’t make it sit any less uncomfortably. “One of the weird blind spots that happened was that in Chinese culture, everyone who is white is called ‘Big Nose,’” explained Kwan. In fact, it’s the opposite: Evelyn defines Slate’s character only by the size of her nose, diving headfirst into a well-worn antisemitic trope. A core part of the movie lies in their evolving relationship, which illustrates the power of how seeing things in a new light can expand our minds and ourselves. The scene between the two of them provides an opportunity for Evelyn to grow from her prejudiced comments, but instead, a dog ends up receiving more humanity than Slate’s character. Frankly, the lack of discourse around “Big Nose'' may be due to the larger narrative surrounding the film— But one of the most long-standing antisemitic tropes is that Jewish people are identifiable by their supposedly big noses. But there remains a nagging problem that lies at [the heart of EEAAO](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the-michelle-yeoh-moment-with-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-is-already-changing-hollywood), best summarized in two words: “Big Nose.” Yet the conversation around the film rarely involves or interrogates the fact that one of the characters in the film is a walking Jewish American Princess stereotype, known only by a facial feature closely tied to prejudiced beliefs. [Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the-trippy-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-transports-sxsw-to-the-hot-dog-fingered-multiverse) absolutely dominated the SAG Awards, winning best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best actress, and the big award of the night, best motion picture cast.

It may have swept awards season so far, but the Daniels' absurdist comedy-drama is still an underdog in this race. Annabel Nugent makes the case that it's a ...

Yeoh is one of the most recognisable Asian actors in the world, but EEAO is the first time the actor has topped a Hollywood call sheet. In a way, EEAO is a victim of its own success. Even recently, as the crazy rich mum in Crazy Rich Asians, she doesn’t have a hair out of place. It’s fair to say, then, that EEAO is worlds away from the sort of prestige drama that usually gets the Academy going. And for once, the same can be said of much of its competition. They made good on that buzz this year, as the film swept awards season in remarkable fashion, turning out a slew of heartwarming acceptance speeches that have gone viral every time.

Everything Everywhere All At Once had to stay in awards voters' minds for an entire year. Here's how they did it.

[true multiverse of madness](/articles/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-multiverse-of-madness). 8Why Mario is Still Nintendo's Most Important Character (Sorry, Link)13h ago - Even though Tears of the King has us all going crazy for Link, the moustachioed plumber is still Nintendo's most important character.](/articles/why-mario-is-still-nintendos-most-important-character-sorry-link) ](/articles/destiny-2-lightfalls-world-first-raid-completion-claimed-by-shocking-underdog) [ISSUE NO. It also won Best Film at the Producers Guild Awards, which is often seen as a strong bellwether for the Oscars as so much of its voting base overlaps with that of the Academy’s. So ride along as we go through all of the biggest video game releases you’ll be able to play on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in March 2023.Also, you can browse the IGN Playlist of all the biggest titles launching in March. A year ago, the cast was trying to concisely explain its admittedly WTF premise – “The thing is, in short, how do I explain this movie? [tweeted critic Karl Delossantos](https://twitter.com/karl_delo) after the SXSW premiere. [would open in several international territories](/articles/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-returns-to-theaters-with-eight-minutes-of-bloopers) and add more screens in IMAX. And that’s on top of the awards it’s been collecting for months now. IGN was among the first to call it a masterpiece Unsurprisingly, as A24 confirmed it had a hit on its hands, the theatrical rollout would continue over several more months. The film festival circuit is where Oscar campaigns truly start, and Austin’s SXSW festival is the next big one after Sundance.

Michelle Yeoh looking at her hands in disbelief with Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is the exception to the industry's ...

[Avatar: The Way of Water](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/26/avatar-the-way-of-water-is-split-by-james-camerons-contradictory-instincts)” on one side, indies such as “ [Triangle of Sadness](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/triangle-of-sadness-reviewed-were-on-a-yacht-and-were-puking)” and “ [Women Talking](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/women-talking-reviewed-a-sublime-script-a-merely-very-good-movie)” on the other. Yeoh also travelled the fall-festival circuit, with a special screening of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” at Telluride and an honorary award at Toronto. [Tár](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/cate-blanchett-is-imperious-and-incandescent-in-tar),” a chillier, more sardonic movie that leaves its audience conflicted over its disgraced antiheroine. “You start with Michelle, because she is the movie.” By October, the Times was The film finished production on March 13, 2020, on the cusp of the pandemic. On its surface, “Everything Everywhere” doesn’t have the hallmarks of Oscar bait: it’s a sci-fi comedy (two genres that the Academy tends to overlook) about a middle-aged Chinese American woman who runs a laundromat, with a premise that is comprehensible mostly to philosophers and comic-book geeks (verse-jumping?), and subplots involving talking rocks, an enchanted everything bagel, and butt plugs. This voter, who had picked “Everything Everywhere” for Best Picture, was drawn to the story of “a woman trying to deal with her life” and observed that the film has a more uplifting ending than many of its competitors: “As we’ve seen with the Oscars over past years, it’s the film that makes you feel happiest when you walk out.” The movie has the spectacle of a superhero blockbuster and the idiosyncratic style of an indie dramedy, but at its core it’s a heartwarming tale of a woman finding her purpose, saving her frayed marriage, and reconciling with her queer daughter. And yet “Everything Everywhere” more than endured—it soared. In yet another reality that we are definitely not in, “ [The Woman King](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/sisterhood-and-slavery-in-the-woman-king)” will herald a new era of Black-female empowerment in Hollywood when it wins Best Picture, Best Director (Gina Prince-Bythewood), and Best Actress (Viola Davis). In the fall and winter, a cavalcade of Oscar-worthy films burst onto the scene, tugging awards speculation in other directions: There is still a world in which “Everything Everywhere” loses all eleven awards for which it’s nominated—but we probably don’t live in that universe, either. [Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-reviewed-theres-no-there-there)” is the dominant front-runner for Best Picture.

The multiverse madness comedy-drama has been nominated for 11 awards at this year's Oscars ceremony, including 'Best Director' and 'Best Picture'. The show (the ...

That metric has been generated by looking at award bodies that recognised both films. [IGN](https://www.ign.com/articles/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-return-of-the-king-most-awarded-movie) shows that the Daniels’ recent movie is the single movie with the most awards, with the belief that before it was released last year, Peter Jackson’s concluder of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, was previously said to be at the top of the time. The multiverse madness comedy-drama has been nominated for 11 awards at this year’s Oscars ceremony, including ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Picture’.

Six people in formalwear stand pose for a photo together, holding six awards statues. Actors Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, James ...

[Jenny Korn](https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/jkorn), founder and coordinator of the Race, Tech, and Media Working Group at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Its debut kicked off the so-called ["Asian August"](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/asian-august-comes-hollywood-will-it-last-n899611) in 2018, with the release of films like Netflix’s "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" highlighting the work of Asian American and Asian artists, and with that a promise of more opportunities. ["Crazy Rich Asians"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3104988/) featuring an all-Asian cast broke global box office records.

On the eve of the Oscars, nominees Michelle Yeoh, Daniel Scheinert, Stephanie Hsu, and Ke Huy Quan celebrated at an intimate party at the Mandarin Oriental ...

Hosts Vanity Fair and Richard Mille welcomed much of the primary cast, including Oscar nominees Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, and Ke Huy Quan as well as Harry Shum Jr. Director Daniel Scheinert was also on hand, holding court with a string of well-wishers. At any other pre-Oscar party in any other year, it would have been hard to make sense of a partygoer with googly eyes applied to her face.

'Everything Everywhere All at Once' director Daniel Kwan took to his Twitter to respond to backlash from critics ahead of the 2023 Oscars award show.

“I hope we can make it up to you on the next one.” “I love every one of the films we are up against for different reasons. “The last thing I ask of any fans of our film is to be gracious and kind tomorrow. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible universes, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight to save her home, her family, and herself.” The film received backlash for alleged anti-Semitism for naming a character called “Big Nose,” played by Jewish actress Jenny Slate. [A24](https://www.complex.com/tag/a24) flick is up for eleven Academy awards, including a hopeful win for Best Picture.

Daniel Kwan, co-director of the Best Picture nominee, responded to the film's detractors in a message ahead of the Academy Awards.

“Thank you for coming along with me on this wild ride, all of your support has meant the world to me.” Everything Everywhere All At Once now holds the record for most wins in Indie Spirits history—a good sign as it heads into the Oscars. Others have problems with the film’s He continued: “I love every one of the films we are up against for different reasons. In a memo posted to Twitter, the director had a request for all fans of the film, while also throwing shade at its critics. While commemorating the anniversary of his film, Kwan also shared he’d be taking a break from social media post-Oscars.

EEAAO is the most nominated film of the year. Daniel ...

He emphasized that he is rooting wholeheartedly for his fellow nominees and expressed his pride in the recognition that the cast and crew have received. He recalled the audience's rollercoaster reactions at the premiere, from "roaring laughter and screams of shock" to "stunned silence when the credits hit" before a standing ovation. Kwan thanked his fellow nominees, his wife, and everyone who supported the film. "That weekend we were all floating a few inches above the ground," he wrote. He urged fans of the film to be "gracious and kind tomorrow, especially if we don't pick up awards that you might have felt we deserved." Daniel Kwan, one half of the writer-director duo behind 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' (EEAAO) has asked fans to show grace and kindness should the film not win big at Sunday's Academy Awards.

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" director Daniel Kwan wants fans to hope for the best and prepare for the worst on Oscar night.

to the people who hate the film with their entire being: I’m sorry we ruined cinema for you forever,” he wrote. “Thank you for coming along with me on this wild ride, all of your support has meant the world to me. “I love every one of the films we are up against for different reasons,” he said. “More importantly, I have grown to love the people behind each of the films as I have gotten to know them this year. “I hope we can make it up to you on the next one.” [Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://www.indiewire.com/t/everything-everywhere-all-at-once/)” at the Academy Awards tomorrow night.

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once director Daniel Kwan took a second to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the movie debuting at SXSW.

"The landscape looks so different now from before, so thank you so much to all of you in this room, and everyone who contributed to these changes," Quan added while pointing over to his co-star. I love every one of the films we are up against for different reasons, and more importantly, I have grown to love and appreciate the people behind each of the films as I have gotten to know them this season," he continued. The last thing I ask of any fans of our film is to be gracious and kind tomorrow, especially if we don't pick up awards that you might have felt we deserved. (Excuse the typos and grammatical errors, i don't have the luxury of time at the moment)" [never be able to sum up this year](https://comicbook.com/movies/news/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-michelle-yeoh-jamie-lee-curtis-what-she-learned/) and what it's done for me and the people around me. [Daniel Kwan](/category/daniel-kwan/) took a second to [celebrate the one-year anniversary](https://comicbook.com/movies/news/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-trailer-michelle-yeoh-multiverse-a24/) of the movie debuting at SXSW.

As the anticipation grows ahead of 95th Academy Awards, director and co-producer Daniel Kwan bade fans to 'not be angry' if the film doesn't sweep the board.

to the people who hate the film with their entire being: I'm sorry we ruined cinema for you forever. More importantly, I have grown to love the people behind each of the films as I have gotten to know them this year. "I love every one of the films we are up against for different reasons.

Everything Everywhere All At Once director Daniel Kwan recently took to Twitter to throw shade on his haters while thanking his fans for their support.

Thank you for coming along with me on this wild ride, all of your support has meant the world to me. to the people who hate the film with their entire being: I'm sorry we ruined cinema for you forever. No movie deserves to sweep, no matter how good it is, and I am rooting whole heartedly for my fellow nominees. More importantly, I have grown to love the people behind each of the films as I have gotten to know them this year. I love every one of the films we are up against for different reasons. He further continued and wrote, "I love every one of the films we are up against for different reasons.

As an Chinese-American viewer, I wasn't sure what to expect. In the end, I was impressed by the relatable Asian representation at long last.

But I just couldn’t relate to the film about martial arts heroes in ancient China, no matter how gracefully shot it was and how beautiful of a story it told. Sometimes it amazes me to see how many people from around the world can connect and bond thanks to something like K-pop or K-dramas. For example, in the film, Evelyn and her husband Waymond are small business owners who run a laundromat and have to deal with annoying customers. The explosion of Hallyu from South Korea has also played a major role with K-pop, K-dramas and K-beauty seemingly everywhere while shows from Japan such as Alice in Borderland, In addition to coincidentally having the same first name as Yeoh’s lead protagonist Evelyn, I found myself very connected to the film. The film synopsis was confusing and vague, but I saw it received good reviews and had an almost all-Asian cast with Michelle Yeoh in the lead role, so I decided to give it a go.