"Everything Everywhere All at Once" was everywhere when Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. The parallel-universe adventure leads a spread-out field with 11 nods.
Released in the Oscar dead zone of spring 2022, "Everything" prevailed over the prestigious, end-of-the-year contenders because of strong showings in both the acting and craft categories, in addition to best picture and director (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as "the Daniels").
Michelle Yeoh, playing a laundromat owner who becomes a kind of superhero, is a best actress nominee. Stephanie Hsu, as her daughter, and Jamie Lee Curtis, as her frenemy, will compete for best supporting actress. And Ke Huy Quan, who plays her husband, is up for supporting actor. His face may not be familiar to moviegoers, who have not seen it much since he made a splash nearly 40 years ago as a child actor in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "The Goonies."
