Everything Everywhere All at Once: Cast's Movie Legacy by Discover Financial Services

Everything Everywhere All At Once (EEAAO) won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2023, resonating deeply with audiences across nationalities, genders, and languages. The A24 sci-fi film explores universal themes such as immigrant experiences, intergenerational trauma, and parent-child relationships.

The cast of EEAAO is composed of talent from diverse backgrounds and ethnic groups, many of whom have remarkable filmographies that are less familiar to global audiences. Inspired by the film's iconic ""Everything Bagel""—a donut-shaped black hole that symbolizes the chaos of infinite possibilities—I created this polar unit chart to celebrate the movie legacy of the cast.

Each circle represents a film participated by a cast member or a co-director. The circles are arranged counterclockwise by release year, with movies released in the same year aligned along a radial axis. Circles farther from the center represent films released later in the year, while their size reflects IMDb vote count, and their color indicates IMDb rating. Bigger, brighter circles signify more popular and higher-rated films. This design transforms the visualization into a metaphorical multiverse of the cast's cinematic legacies, reflecting the ""alternate universes"" central to the film's narrative.

Four BANs at the top-right highlight intriguing statistics about these films. These BANs act as exploratory starting points, inviting users to interact with the data. Hovering over a BAN highlights the corresponding movies in the chart, encouraging viewers to dive deeper into specific aspects of the cast's filmography and uncover new insights.

The visualization's interactivity further enhances the user experience. Film fans can explore the cast's body of work by delving into each movie's popularity, cast members, roles, and release dates. Casual viewers can also discover lesser-known films and build connections to the broader legacy of EEAAO's creators.

Created using Tableau and Figma, this visualization was part of Tableau's Data + Movies challenge, a global community project promoting creativity in data visualization. It was featured on Tableau's official website, and the dataset, sourced from IMDb, is publicly available for exploration.

Step into the multiverse and discover the cinematic legacies of the EEAAO cast!