Time for ‘Everything’?

Oscars preview: ‘Everything Everywhere’ poised to win best picture and other awards, but will enough tune in?

Expect there to be a few special moments, here and there, for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Many experts predict the wild and wildly inventive American film — about an ordinary woman (Michelle Yeoh) battling forces from across a multiverse, including an incredibly powerful version of her daughter (Stephanie Hsu), to grow closer to the one from her reality — will win multiple Oscars, including best picture, when the 95th Academy Awards are held March 12 in Los Angeles.

When it was released roughly a year ago, you didn’t really hear Oscar buzz for “Everything Everywhere,” but that’s changed of late as the film from “Swiss Army Man” writers-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — aka “The Daniels” — has done increasingly well in Hollywood’s awards season.

“I think it’s just a case of stopless momentum,” says one such expert, Mentor native Tom O’Neil, author of the book “Movie Awards: The Ultimate, Unofficial Guide to the Oscars, Golden Globes, Critics, Guild, & Indie Honors,” last published in 2003.

More recently, O’Neil, who splits his time between New York and Los Angeles, has served as the president and editor at GoldDerby. com, a site he founded in 2000 that is now owned by Penske Media Corp. Gold Derby presents regularly updated predictions for the Oscars, as well as Emmys, Grammys and other industry awards. The predictions are based on the expectations of experts such as O’Neil, but the site — which O’Neil has been shepherding through what he says is a much-needed redesign — also is a place for fans to weigh in on what or whom they think will win.

“Nothing rose up to give it a good challenge,” he adds about “Everything Everywhere.” “It’s still vulnerable — it’s not guaranteed to win. It certainly is the far-and-away front runner given its awards history up to now.”

On the phone from LA

exactly a week before the ceremony, he reminds us, however, that the Oscars use a different mathematical methodology to pick the best picture winner from the simpler one used to tally votes in the other categories.

“(It’s an) equation that can suddenly have a ‘Moonlight’ take down a ‘La La Land,’” he says, referring to the infamous upset in 2017.

That should give hope to the film in GoldDerby’s runner-up spot, writer-director Martin McDonagh’s

“The Banshees of Inisherin.”

“I don’t understand why,” O’Neil says, “but there’s this huge support for ‘Banshees’ in our own polling.”

He is happy to see two blockbusters, “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water,” among the 10 nominated films.

COURTESY OF A24 The Asian-American actors in “Everything Everywhere All At Once” are up for Oscars: best actress, Michelle Yeoh; supporting actress Stephanie Hsu; and supporting actor Ke Huy Quan.

COURTESY OF 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS Brendan Gleeson, left, and Colin Farrell star in “The Banshees of Inisherin,” which has a chance to upset “Everything Everywhere All at Once” for the best picture Academy Award on March 12.

COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES Gabriel LaBelle portrays Sammy Fabelman in “The Fabelmans,” co-written, produced and directed by Steven Spielberg.