The surprise for the delivery of the Oscar awards, which is celebrated this Sunday, March 12, is high; in addition to the changes of the event, such as the host Jimmy Kimmel to avoid new blows to Chris Rock, as happened last year; whether the red carpet color changes for a champagne-colored one, the expectation remains whether a really crazy sci-fi story with sausage fingers and sex toys takes the prize for best picture.

The most likely answer seems to be yes.

“Everything everywhere at the same time,” the movie about a Chinese immigrant laundromat owner who goes up against an interdimensional villain who turns out to be her own daughter, couldn’t be further from the usual Oscar winners.

Featuring a charismatic, mostly Asian cast, including the popular Jamie Lee Curtis, it has dominated almost every Hollywood awards show and has become the light-hearted movie of the season.

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“Behind the film is a really nice group of people for whom it’s impossible not to be happy,” Scott Feinberg, a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter, told AFP.

After winning top accolades from Hollywood directors, producers and actors’ unions, the film, which became a $100 million blockbuster thanks to genuine word of mouth, is expected to dominate the night of the Oscars.

But unlike what happens in other Oscar categories, the film could be disadvantaged in the best picture contest because of the “preferential” voting system, where members of the Academy rank nominees from best to worst. .

The system penalizes films that generate mixed reactions, and Feinberg says that “many” voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “just don’t get the movie’s crazy appeal.”

Instead, Feinberg thinks All Quiet Front, Netflix’s World War I German film that dominated British BAFTAs, and Tom Cruise’s long-awaited sequel Top Gun: Maverick could benefit. film industry” of the pandemic.

“The Blow”

Hovering above the lavish ceremony is the ghost of “the clap,” the shocking moment when Will Smith attacked Chris Rock on stage last year over a joke about his wife’s hair loss.

“We’re going to acknowledge it, and then we’ll move on to something else,” Oscar executive producer Molly McNearney told reporters this week.

“The Academy has made it very clear that they don’t think it’s funny and would rather not bring it up. But I think you can’t pretend it didn’t happen,” Feinberg said.

The organizers were criticized for allowing Smith to continue the event after the attack and even allowing him to receive his Best Actor statuette.

Then he was banned from attending the gala for ten years, what This means that she will not present the best actress award this year, a tradition.

For the first time ever, a “crisis team” will be on hand behind the scenes to respond in case something happens that isn’t in the script.

“We have worked on the Democratic Party convention and inauguration ceremonies for several presidents. We take care of the entertainment, the Secret Service takes care of the rest,” the gala’s producer, Glenn Weiss, told AFP.

The goal of his team and the host, Jimmy Kimmel, is strictly “to keep the ceremony entertaining.”

Whether people stay in front of the screen is another question.

Thanks in part to ‘the slap in the face’, ratings improved after record drops last year, but even then they were nowhere near the good numbers of the 1990s as prices dampen interest and fatalists insist it to predict the end of cinemas.