The hive-mind is a powerful thing in film criticism.
Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan’s “Everything Everywhwere All At Once” has just won another Best Film award, this time it’s from the North Carolina Film Critics Association.
Just in case you’re not keeping track, The Daniels’ sci-fi martial-arts multiverse movie has won 15 Best Film awards from regional critics groups: Atlanta, Las Vegas, Los Angeles (TIE), Southeastern, Washington, Utah, St. Louis, Indiana, Dallas, North Texas, Philadelphia, North Carolina, Phoenix, Iowa and Florida. No other movie comes even remotely close to this number of wins.
Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” has won 6 Best Film awards: Chicago, Phoenix, Oklahoma, Columbus, San Diego and Great Western New York.
“Top Gun: Maverick” nabbed the coveted National Board of Review’s top prize.
It looks as though “TÁR” will just win two, albeit the biggest ones: New York and Los Angeles
These critics groups have given EEAO a major momentum boost these last few weeks and many pundits believe that this will translate into some Oscars (I’m skeptical). EEAO remains at #1 on Gold Derby’s consensus chart. It’s no longer Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” which had held on to the top spot since it screened at TIFF in September.
Some believed that ‘Everything Everywhere’ being snubbed from the VFX and makeup categories would be a sign of things to come, an Academy voting rebellion against the film, but I’m also not convinced about this. The film will likely get nominated for Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress, at the very least. Whether it wins in these categories remains to be seen.
Remember when, back in August, we learned “The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth” would be playing in only around 350 U.S. theaters, "maybe fewer"? Well, it's fewer. A lot fewer.