Every Best Picture Oscar Movie Winner Of 21st Century Ranked Worst To Best
11. Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
Should have won!
What a crazy world we live in, where a film as inventive and relentlessly odd as Everything Everywhere All at Once could win Hollywood's grandest prize. This is a film, after all, about a remarkably strained mother/daughter relationship, interdimensional travel, the immigrant experience, and the absurdity of life.
A multiverse film that revels in its strangeness, the picture stars an Oscar-winning Michelle Yeoh as a mother to a disillusioned and villainous daughter (Stephanie Hsu) and wife to a depressed husband (Ke Huy Quan).
Theirs is a moving story of family and togetherness that happens to be wrapped inside a time-jumping, utterly absurd sci-fi epic that balances irreverence with wit, and heartbreak with gloriously silly laughs. It has fast-paced martial arts, jokes about dildos, people with sausages for fingers, and an emotional centre that slowly sneaks up on you with its power.
Admittedly, Everything Everywhere All at Once won't be to everyone's tastes, and its ambition - its jokes, humanity, genre-twisting - sometimes exceeds its grasp, but it's so joyfully made, so bold and arresting, that any qualms you might have are easy to forgive.