‘All at Once Everywhere’ dethrones ‘The Return of the King’ as the most awarded film in history

A crowd favorite and critical acclaim, the wacky sci-fi adventure ‘Everything At Once Everywhere’ took awards season by storm, so much so that broke a film industry record. As reported by IGN, the film starring Michelle Yeoh dethroned ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ as the film with the most awards in history.

IGN calculated that among the major critics and awards organizations, the number of awards that ‘Everything at the same time everywhere’ has received so far is 158, making it the most awarded film in history. With 101 trophies, this position was previously held by ‘The Return of the King’, the third film in the popular ‘Peter Jackson’ trilogy. It should be noted that IGN made a selection among organizations with a certain importance for comparison, but in the case of counting all nominations and awards, regardless of their origin, “All at once” surpasses even “The Return of the King” . As, the Middle-earth film has 213 awards and 337 nominations, while the one directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert has 336 awards and 691 nominations.

New organizations, critic circles and award sites have sprung up in favor of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ in the 20 years from its release to that of Daniels’ film. ‘All at Once’ received awards from 110 different venues, while the closing ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy from 90. As IGN explains, In order to make the comparison as fair as possible, they recounted the prizes awarded only by the 45 organizations that considered both projects. Even so, “Todo a la vez” is the winner of both awards (138 to 127), nominations (295 to 189) and organizations that award him at least one award (39 to 37).

Favorite at the Oscars

It is even poetic that, after comparing the two blockbusters, we point out that ‘All at once everywhere’ is nominated for 11 categories at the 2023 Oscars, the same number of nominations that ‘The Return of the King’ received. at the 2004 Oscars. We’ll see if the film starring Yeoh will have the incredible success that the third chapter of “The Lord of the Rings” had in its year, which it swept and won the 11 categories for which it was nominated, among which we found best film, best director and best adapted screenplay.

“Everything at Once Everywhere” is nominated in the categories Best Picture, Best Director (The Daniels), Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), best costume designer, best editing, best song and best soundtrack. On March 13, we will know how many statuettes we needwhich will further widen the gap between first place and second among the most awarded films in history.

‘All at once everywhere’ is Available in cinemas and on Movistar+.