At tonight’s DGA Awards, administrators Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert landed Best Theatrical Feature with their A24 smash Everything Everywhere All At Once — besting competitors that included Todd Field (Tár), Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans) of their first day trip on the ceremony.
Kwan started his remarks by noting what “an incredible year” it’s been for his and Scheinert’s “little film that somehow keeps going,” which launched its journey in direction of awards glory all the best way again at SXSW 2022.
Kwan subsequently thanked Everything Everywhere star Michelle Yeoh, who “made this movie” with a efficiency that had her showing “in every single frame,” gracing the filmmakers with “everything.”
Also thanked by Kwan was A24, which took an opportunity on his and Scheinert’s movie when “many people” didn’t. “Films like this oftentimes don’t get a launchpad, [but] you are the craziest studio, and you always do somehow take risks on movies like ours. So, thank you,” he stated.
Kwan shared in closing that what he’s going to remove from this awards season, “more than anything,” is the “warmth,” “curiosity” and “enthusiasm” of his fellow nominees. “Every time we break bread or we get to share a stage with each other, I leave so inspired, and it’s just a beautiful reminder that even the best filmmakers in this industry, even the legends in this industry, deep down, are just kids who are excited to be making movies,” stated the director. “Thank you so much for that reminder.”
Scheinert went on to thank only one individual — that being his co-director, Kwan. “Thank you for putting up with me when I asked to make our movie weirder, and thank you for making our movie so much braver and more vulnerable,” he stated. “What an honor.”
While virtually unimaginable to summarize through a standard logline, Everything Everywhere is a martial arts-packed multiverse movie that facilities on Evelyn Wang (Yeoh), an growing old Chinese immigrant who’s swept up in an insane journey, wherein she alone can save the world by exploring different universes connecting with the lives she might have led.
In addition to the highest-grossing of any movie within the historical past of A24, Everything Everywhere is probably the most nominated movie of any on the upcoming Academy Awards, having scored a complete of 11 noms, together with within the classes of Best Picture and Director. Kwan and Scheinert produced the popular culture sensation alongside Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Mike Larocca and Jonathan Wang, with Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr. and James Hong amongst these rounding out the forged.
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