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This week on the Richard Crouse Oscar Special we meet four Academy Award nominees!\n\nFirst up, Ke Huy Quan, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for the most aptly titled movie of last year, \u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once.\u201d You can say a lot of things about \u201cEverything Everywhere All At Once\u201d but you can\u2019t say you\u2019ve ever seen anything quite like it before. An eye-popping reflection on the power of kindness and love to heal the world\u2019s problems, it is exhilarating that mixes and matches everything from family drama and tax problems to martial-arts and metaphysics into a whimsical story that moves at the speed of light. The result is a singular film that milks intentionality out of its madness.\n\nYou know Ke Huy Quan as Short Round, the plucky kid companion to Indiana Jones in The Temple Of Doom and from a role in cult classic comedy-adventure The Goonies. We\u2019ll talk about why he chose to return to acting in \u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once\u201d after a twenty-year break from Hollywood.\n\nI caught up with Best Director nominee Baz Lurhmann and the stars of \u201cElvis,\u201d Best Actor nominee Austin Butler, who hands in a terrific performance as Elvis and Olivia DeJonge who plays Elvis\u2019 wife, Priscilla. We talked about what the story of Elvis\u2019s life can tell us about America, Priscilla\u2019s role in the singer\u2019s life and much more.\n\nThen, we meet Best Actor nominee Brendan Fraser, whose performance as a 600 pound man in \u201cThe Whale\u201d earned him a six minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival, and the film\u2019s screenwriter Sam Hunter, to talk about what Fraser learned from playing the character, how Hunter changed the script from the original stage play and more.