The Best Oscar Bait Movies That Lost To ‘Everything Everywhere’

At Sunday night’s Academy Awards, Daniel Kwan got one of the awards for making his movie “Everything Everywhere All At Once”. After receiving the award, he turned to his little son and said that what just happened was not something you see every day. He kindly told him that this situation was actually kind of weird and unusual.

The winners of the Oscar Best Picture awards have been really unusual in recent years. Three years ago, Bong Joon Ho’s movie “Parasite” won the award and it was the first time a non-English movie had ever won. Last year, “CODA”, an independent and sweet drama released in August, made history as it became the first film to be awarded by its representation of deaf characters.

When this movie was made, no one thought it could be an Oscar winner since it included funny scenes like a fight with butt plugs and hot dogs being used as fingers. Surprisingly, this movie actually got seven Oscars! Who would have thought a silly movie could do so well?

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” may be just as heartfelt and classic like other films that won the Oscar Awards. However, it could also be the most unusual movie to ever win this prestigious award in 95 years! Compared to “Patton”, it is totally different.

The Oscars ceremony began with some special guests: Two Navy fighter jets! And during the ceremony, Ke Huy Quan won Best Supporting Actor and gave a speech about how incredible it is that a war refugee could grow up to receive this kind of recognition in America. So at this event, people were thinking back on how movies have changed since 1971 when a movie won Best Picture.

Michelle Yeoh won the Best Actress award for “Everything Everywhere All at Once”. This is a big deal for Asian Americans, but it was not expected to win any awards because it was not a typical Oscar-winning movie like “CODA” and “Parasite.”

“Sometimes it feels like we are in a movie of our own,” Scheinert says. “At some point, though, the joke will be over and we’ll have to go back to our real lives and think: ‘Wow, wouldn’t that be awesome? Too bad it won’t happen.'”

The movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was really popular and it beat out all the competition. Its actors Yeoh, Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis each won an Oscar – that’s only ever happened twice before in the past with movies like “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Network”. This same movie has more awards than any other film from the Academy Awards!

Many of the old movie stars weren’t at the show, and those that came didn’t win any awards. Tom Cruise didn’t even show up, and James Cameron’s movie “Avatar: The Way of Water” wasn’t a serious contender. 25 years ago, Cameron won big time with his movie “Titanic”, earning him the title of “king of the world”.

The movies, “Maverick” and “Avatar”, have made almost four billion dollars in the box office. At the Oscars night though, their wins were very small which may have taken some viewers away from watching it. Academy voters picked Curtis for best supporting actress instead of Angela Bassett from ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’. If Bassett had won the Oscar she would’ve been the first Marvel performer to receive one.

Steven Spielberg and “The Fabelmans” did not win any awards at the Oscars. They were nominated for seven awards but none of them got it. The director award went to the Daniels, who were 35 years old, which makes them the second youngest winners ever!

This year’s Oscars made it clear – they mostly belong to people that are considered ‘underdogs’ and films seen as ‘Oscar bait’ won’t win in the end.

Many of the winning movies were quite typical. Brendan Fraser won Best Actor for his performance in “The Whale,” which was done with help from makeup. But it wouldn’t be fair to say that Steven Spielberg’s movie, which lost its “mom” plot to the Daniels’ film, was made just for awards.

It looks like Hollywood is now trying to make movies that don’t look so much like the typical Oscar movies. This might be because the Academy, which is made up of more than 10,000 people from different backgrounds and cultures has changed. This shift in diversity helped push the German WWI movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” to receive four Oscars and even India’s “RRR” got an Oscar for the song “Naatu Naatu”.

The acting winners at the show were all first-timers, but they have been in Hollywood for a while. The awards each of them received could be seen as a way to fix things that had gone wrong in the past; Yeoh, Quan, and Fraser had all felt unfairly treated by the industry. Fraser was virtually forgotten and hurt by someone connected with the movie world. Yeoh did not get parts like she had wanted and Quan stopped acting altogether after facing too many difficulties getting roles he wanted.

Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Academy Awards in a traditional way, much different from last year’s show. But what you didn’t see is that something bigger was happening – and not just how the red carpet looked.

It is really unusual for a couple of guys with a weird sense of humour to win the best picture award for their movie. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was the Daniels’ second film and could have resonated with people because it captures our overloaded use of websites in various ways.

Kwan said on the Dolby Theatre stage that the world is changing very quickly, but movies are struggling to keep up with that speed. The internet is a lot faster than cinema which makes it hard for stories to stay up-to-date.

Every year, the Oscars have different winners. For example, in 2018, “Green Book” won and in 2017 “Moonlight” won. That was special because it was the first time that a movie from A24 got the top award. This year became extra special as this is now A24’s second win – they also made their biggest box-office hit so far which earned around $107 million! What’s even more incredible is that an Oscar studio has never won all of the top awards until now!

When Kwan spoke to reporters behind the scenes at the Oscars, he said his work is about using joy and silliness as a way of getting through difficult moments, like depression. Kwan wants younger generations to know that it’s possible to face such hard times with hope and creativity.

The movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won this year’s Oscars, which has had a tough time after having to deal with problems from the pandemic and last year’s show. People have been trying hard to get people back into theaters for movies, but original films have not been abundant. During Oscar weekend, a “VI” beat out a “III” in terms of box-office success.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is a unique and creative movie, and it’s loved for being so different. At the Oscars, its win may be seen as something natural – not out of the ordinary like originally thought by Kwan.