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The SAG Awards on Sunday night were in many ways a coronation for Everything Everywhere All at Once, which won an unprecedented four statuettes and firmly cemented its status as the front-runner for the best-picture Oscar. It entered the night widely expected to win the top ensemble award, as well as supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan, who is the closest thing we have to an Oscar lock this year. But the victories for Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis also suggested that A24’s genre-hopping adventure could be headed for a historic Oscar night. It’s been almost 50 years, since 1976’s Network, since any film won more than two acting Oscars. Could the hot-dog-finger movie really be the one to break the streak?
It’s definitely possible! But as the hosts discuss on this week’s Little Gold Men podcast, every race except supporting actor now seems exceptionally tight. Yeoh is still up against Cate Blanchett, who has won every other major award this season for her commanding performance in Tár. Curtis is not only up against her own costar Stephanie Hsu, but another well-respected industry veteran looking for her first Oscar, Angela Bassett. And in the best-actor category, where Everything Everywhere All at Once is not competing, Brendan Fraser’s SAG Awards win puts him right in the thick of it with Elvis star Austin Butler. Think you know who will win in any of those categories? Don’t worry, you’ll probably change your mind tomorrow.
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This week’s Little Gold Men also includes a deep dive into the three shorts races, which as usual have a wide range of contenders to choose from. In animated feature, the provocatively titled My Year of Dicks will be up against the much more sentimental J.J. Abrams–backed The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse. In live-action there’s another heavyweight in the Alfonso Cuarón–backed Le Pupille, but then again, the Greenland-set Ivalu has its own Oscar winners behind it. And in documentary short, it’s Malala Yousafzai vs. hundreds of thousands of walruses—no, really.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Oscar-Nominated Shorts
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Which ones are worth watching? Who will win? And which ones will make you want to give everything up and live with elephants?
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