The Oscars are finally evolving now the academy is not so white

The Oscars are finally evolving now the academy is not so white
Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once. (Image: Supplied)
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Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are two writer-directors who credit themselves as “Daniels” when they work together. Their first feature film, Swiss Army Man (2016), was a surreal comedy in which a man (Paul Dano) befriends a magical cadaver (Daniel Radcliffe), and uses its flatulence as a jet engine and its erection as a compass. It is often referred to as “the farting corpse movie”. Their second film is just as idiosyncratic and just as ribald. Everything Everywhere All at Once is the story of a Chinese-Amer...

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