Everything Everywhere All At Once is the very first science fiction picture in history to win a Best Picture Oscar. The very first.
Last night, in accepting his Best Actor statue at the Academy Awards, Brendan Fraser said, “So this is what the multiverse looks like”. The audience didn’t seem to get the reference, but I did. The concept of the multiverse is essentially that there are myriad alternate universes, each of which branches off from minor or major decision trees. His reference, of course, was to the Oscar buzz over what turned out to be an historical moment in Hollywood history. He was saying that his win — like Everything Everywhere All At Once’s win— was so unlikely that he must have entered an alternate universe.
If so, I’m glad to be in it with him.