VOA文化艺术2023--‘Everything Everywhere All at Once” Wins Big at SAG Awards

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once” Wins Big at SAG¹ Awards

The Screen Actors Guild² Awards, or SAG Awards, are known as an important predictor for the Academy Awards, or Oscars.

On Sunday night in Los Angeles, the film Everything Everywhere All at Once was a big winner at the SAG Awards.

Three actors from the film won awards. In addition, the group of actors in the film won the award for best cast.

The actors who won were Michelle Yeoh for leading female actor; Jamie Lee Curtis for supporting female actor and Ke Huy Quan for supporting male actor.

Yeoh is the first Asian actress to win the award. She is from Malaysia. She acted in many films in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s. Movie fans in other parts of the world learned about Yeoh when she appeared in a James Bond film in 1997.

Quan is a Vietnamese American actor who became known in the 1980s when he was a boy. Quan was in the famous films Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom³, and The Goonies. As he grew older, he was not able to get many more acting⁴ roles and mostly dropped out of the business.

Jamie Lee Curtis is 64 years old and the daughter of two famous Hollywood stars: Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. It was her first SAG nomination⁵. She said: "I'm 64 years old and this is amazing."

Other actors in the group noted⁶ Curtis' award and joked that not all the actors in the film were Asian.

The movie was written and directed by the team known as "The Daniels." They are Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.

The actors of Everything Everywhere All at Once spoke⁷ about how Hollywood is now recognizing more Asian actors and offering more opportunities.

Yeoh held her award and said: "This is not just for me. It's for every little girl that looks like me."

Quan said he left acting "because there were so few opportunities." He looked around at the other Asian actors and said, "the landscape looks so different now."

James Hong is also a member of the cast. He is 94. He talked about old Hollywood movies when white actors would play Asian people. He said they wore makeup⁸ to look Asian, "because the producers said the Asians were not good enough...but look at us now!"

The other big winners on Sunday were Brendan Fraser for the film The Whale and Jennifer Coolidge, Jason Bateman and Jessica Chastain for their work in different television programs.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is nominated for 11 Academy Awards. "The Daniels," Kwan and Scheinert, are nominated for best picture, best directing and best original screenplay. Four of the actors are nominated, including Yeoh for best actress, Curtis and Stephanie Hsu for best supporting actress and Quan for best supporting actor.

Many of the SAG Awards voters are the same ones who vote for the Academy Awards. That is why people say it predicts the winners of the Academy Awards.

Last year, for example, many Oscar winners also won SAG Awards. The Oscars ceremony will be held on March 12 in Los Angeles, California.

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cast –n. the entire group of actors in a film or theater production

landscape –n. the different features of a piece of land, such as hills, grass and trees; also used to discuss an environment such as work or business

original –adj. not a copy but created as something new

screenplay –n. the script and writing that is the basis for a movie or television program

1 sag   

v.下垂，下跌，消沉；n.下垂，下跌，凹陷，[航海]随风漂流

参考例句：

• The shelf was beginning to sag beneath the weight of the books upon it.书架在书的重压下渐渐下弯。
• We need to do something about the sag.我们须把下沉的地方修整一下。

2 guild   

n.行会，同业公会，协会

参考例句：

• He used to be a member of the Writers' Guild of America.他曾是美国作家协会的一员。
• You had better incorporate the firm into your guild.你最好把这个公司并入你的行业协会。

3 doom   

n.厄运，劫数；v.注定，命定

参考例句：

• The report on our economic situation is full of doom and gloom.这份关于我们经济状况的报告充满了令人绝望和沮丧的调子。
• The dictator met his doom after ten years of rule.独裁者统治了十年终于完蛋了。

4 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

5 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

6 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

7 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

8 makeup   

n.组织；性格；化装品

参考例句：

• Those who failed the exam take a makeup exam.这次考试不及格的人必须参加补考。
• Do you think her beauty could makeup for her stupidity?你认为她的美丽能弥补她的愚蠢吗？