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The Everywhere pair: how the Daniels captured Hollywood with their kung-fu sci-fi comedy-drama

Filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who created the Oscar-sweeping Everything Everywhere All At Once, are proof – in today’s creatively stalled Hollywood – that there is still room in cinema for something truly new

It might seem premature to call only a second feature film the culmination of a cinema career. But Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the Oscar-winning pair who bill themselves as Daniels, might work another five decades in the movies and never reach the dizzying heights they are currently at again.

At last week’s Academy Awards, Everything Everywhere All At Once, the independent kung-fu sci-fi comedy-drama which they wrote, directed and produced alongside longtime friend and ...