EEAAO's Daniel Kwan makes one final plea for fans to please be chill about the Oscars
"The last thing I ask of any fans of our film is to be gracious and kind tomorrow, especially if we don’t pick up awards that you might have felt we deserved."
As half of writing-directing team Daniels, Daniel Kwan is one of the people largely responsible for one of this year’s more surprising Oscars contenders, sci-fi comedy Everything Everywhere, All At Once—which is, to the best of our knowledge, the only Best Picture nominee in the long history of the Academy in which martial artists give themselves combat-vital power-ups by literally shoving things up their own butts. (Although it’s been a minute since we’ve watched On The Waterfront.)
That also makes Kwan partially, if not responsible for, then at least associated with, the reactions the film has garnered from fans—most of which have been rapturous, energetic, and kind, in keeping with the spirit of a film that ultimately skews optimistic about people’s potential to be good. But also occasionally not, which might explain why Kwan (not for the first time) has issued a brief request to fans ahead of the film’s performance at tomorrow night’s awards, which we’ll paraphrase thusly: Please do not act like rampaging dicks if EEAAO doesn’t win any awards.