28022023-LSTC-01.qxd 2/27/2023 11:13 PM Page 1 c m y b Everything Everywhere All At Once and The White Lotus sweep SAG Awards TRIBUNE Just a hint Salman Khan, who is gearing up for Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan, has posted a small clip featuring cats on Instagram. It builds up anticipation for the song Billi Billi from the film. IANS LUDHIANA | TUESDAY | 28 FEBRUARY 2023 COLOURof MICHELLE YEOH SUCCESS Honour board The metaverse adventure movie Everything Everywhere All At Once bagged the best ensemble prize at the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday evening. The Michelle Yeoh-starrer also broke records, becoming the biggest winner in the history of the show. Another series that has been picking up awards, The White Lotus, a trenchant look at the over-privileged guests at an Italian resort, took home the best TV drama ensemble honour. Everything Everywhere All At Once, one of the few recent Indies to break out in a big way at the box-office, dominated the evening with four wins, followed by The White Lotus, which will be remembered for Jennifer Coolidge, with two victories. Everything Everywhere All At Once has continued to build momentum during a marathon awards season, racking up top prizes as it barrels toward the Oscars in two weeks. This weekend, it nabbed the Producers BRENDAN FRASER Guild Award and last weekend it picked up the Directors Guild Award for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the filmmakers. Michelle Yeoh was named best actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once, and it took her time at the podium to note what her victory meant for other Asian movie fans. “This is not just for me,” she said. “This is for every little girl who looks like me,” Yeoh added. Brendan Fraser earned best actor honours for The Whale. Fighting back tears, Fraser talked about his professional highs and lows in a life that took him from the A-list in the 1990s and to a career downturn that left him off the marquee. “I’ve rode that wave lately, and I’ve also had that wave smash me to the ocean floor,” Fraser said. Jessica Chastain won best female actor in a TV movie or limited series for Showtime's country music power couple series George & Tammy. — IANS JENNIFER COOLIDGE EGOT — Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards —to their credit, these Hollywood artistes of colour have carved a niche for themselves on the wings of their talent and tenacity RITA MORENO Mona T HE Black History Month—February—which celebrates the often neglected accomplishments of people of colour, gets a new meaning in 2023. With Viola Davis, an advocate for social justice and equality for women of colour in Hollywood, bagging the prestigious EGOT, it’s time to acknowledge artistes who have achieved the amazing feat on the basis of their talent. From the early 1900, when first actors of colour, Sam Lucas, Stepin Fetchit and Hattie McDaniel, got their due in show business, things have come afar. Concerns JOHN LEGEND have been raised, and rightful changes made. #OscarsSoWhite, which was first tweeted in 2015, too has pushed for change. Now, leading actors of ‘black’ colour, whose talent is accepted, applauded, have a rightful place in the EGOT hall of fame. VIOLA! JAMES EARL JONES WHOOPI GOLDBERG “I wrote this book to honour the sixyear-old Viola. To honour her life, her joy, her trauma, everything and it has just been such a journey. I just EGOT,” spoke actress, Viola Davis who won a Grammy Award 2023 for narrating the audio book of her memoir Finding Me. She has also won a competitive Academy Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award. For the plays King Hedley II and Fences, she earned her two Tonys. Fences, the film, got her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2016. Playing the fierce Annalise Keating in How To Get Away With Murder got her an Emmy a year earlier. Rita Moreno, the Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer, who shot to limelight as Anita in 1961 with West Side Story, also won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She holds two Emmys for The Muppet Show and The Rockford Files in 1977 and 1978, respectively. While The Electric Company got her Grammy Best Album for Children In 1973; her Tony came for The Ritz in 1975. In her 90s now, she has continued her work on screen, and her sports comedy 80 for Brady was released early this month. Second take Guneet Monga and her production house Sikhya Entertainment have signed Umesh Bist, director of Pagglait, for the second time. Talking about it, Guneet Monga says, “Umesh is a prolific storyteller who has a deep and delicate understanding of human emotions, which is his USP That’s why the moving and . extraordinary story of Pagglait touched the hearts of so many people. This is Sikhya’s second collaboration with Umesh Bist.” Meanwhile, Sikhya’s documentary short film The Elephant Whisperers on Netflix is headed to the Oscars. The short film, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves, is the story of an indigenous couple in South India that bonds with an orphaned elephant, Raghu. The film has been nominated among the top five documentary shorts globally by The Academy, which happens to be the third Oscar nomination for producer Guneet Monga. — TMS c m y b NON-COMPETITIVE EGOT What is EGOT? Considered the grand slam of show business—EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards, is the ultimate achievement in Hollywood of having won all four of the major American entertainment awards. Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony honour outstanding achievements in television, recording, film and Broadway theatre, respectively. GREAT ACT Whoopi Goldberg is another force to reckon with. American actor, comedian, author and TV star, she is also recipient of Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Ghost won her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1990. Her Grammy came via Whoopi Goldberg: Original Broadway Show Recording for Best Comedy Album in 1986. Thoroughly Modern Millie won her the Tony for Best Musical in 2002. The same year got her Daytime Emmy for Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel. She continues to work relentlessly; couple of projects that she is part of include a guest role in comedy The Conners. American singer-songwriter, actress, talk show host, and producer Jennifer Hudson remains the youngest EGOT After Pagglait Guneet Monga teams up with director Umesh Bist once again JESSICA CHASTAIN JENNIFER HUDSON VIOLA DAVIS recipient. In 2007, she received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Dreamgirls. Grammy came the following year for her debut self-titled studio album Jennifer Hudson winning Best R&B Album. She won Daytime Emmy for Baba Yaga in 2021. A Strange Loop in 2022 as Best Musical won her a Tony, putting her on to the EGOT pedestal. She continues to host The Jennifer Hudson Show since 2022. She will next be seen in an upcoming action-adventure film Breathe. American singer, songwriter John Legend, winner of multiple Emmys and Grammys, got an Oscar for the song Glory from the film Selma in 2015. A Tony winner, as a producer of August Wilson’s Jitney, the All Of Me crooner has stayed a part of American singing reality show The Voice. OTT debut Sony LIV has announced an adaptation of the renowned detective fiction mystery novel The Sittaford Mystery, written by legendary British novelist and queen of the crime genre, Agatha Christie. Titled Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley, the show is helmed by Bhardwaj’s home banner – Vishal Bhardwaj Pictures along with Priti Shahani’s Tusk Tale Films in association with Agatha Christie Limited. Set in the snow-capped mountains of Himachal Pradesh, the series will follow the journey of Charlie Chopra and her quest to uncover a deep mystery. Besides donning the hats of director and co-producer, Vishal Bhardwaj also serves as the show’s coscreenwriter, alongside Anjum Rajabali and Jyotsna Hariharan. The series boasts of an impressive ensemble cast featuring Wamiqa Gabbi, Priyanshu Painyuli, Naseeruddin Shah, Neena Gupta, Ratna Pathak Shah, Gulshan Grover, Lara Dutta, Chandan Roy Sanyal, and Paoli Dam, among others. Vishal Bhardwaj says, “I grew up devouring all Agatha Christie mysterious tales. Her plots, characters and setting remain unparalleled in the genre and continue to excite storytellers even today.” —TMS As many as 28 Grammys to his credit, Quincy Jones got an Emmy in 1995 and 1996 and, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (Oscar) in 1994, and a Tony for producing the hit revival of Broadway’s The Color Purple in 2006 put him on to the prestigious EGOT list. The Star Warsand Field of Dreamslegend James Earl Jones holds a non-competitive EGOT, after winning an Honorary Oscar in 2011. He holds three Emmys, three Tonys and a Grammy. Activist, actor and singer Harry Belafonte’s Non-competitive EGOT history boasts of a Tony in 1954, an Emmy in 1960, a Grammy the following year and honourary Oscarthe Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2014 — at the Academy’s Governors Awards. Looks like the list is set to become longer, as accomplished American rapper and actor Common, English actress, singer and songwriter Cynthia Erivo, and American actor, singer, writer and director Billy Porter are just a step away from joining the prestigious EGOT club! Rumour mill Filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj to make series based on Agatha Christie’s novel The promotion of Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor-starrer Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar is in full swing. After Chandigarh, Ranbir was in Kolkata recently for the release of the third single from the film. As the actor was spotted playing cricket with Sourav Ganguly at Eden Gardens, it gave birth to rumours on the former doing the biopic of Sourav Ganguly. But Ranbir clarified later, “I think dada (Sourav Ganguly) is a living legend not just in India, but around the world. A biopic on him will be very special. Unfortunately, mujhe yeh film offer nahi huyi hai (I have not been offered this film). I think the makers of Luv films are still writing the script.” — TMS Ranbir Kapoor denies he is starring in Sourav Ganguly’s biopic