In maybe essentially the most unpredictable race of a season chock-full of them, Jamie Lee Curtis received the Oscar for greatest supporting actress for her position as Deidre Beaubeirdre in All the pieces In every single place All at As soon as, moments after her co-star Ke Huy Quan received his personal supporting actor statue.
“I do know it seems to be like I’m standing up right here on my own, however I’m not, I’m a whole bunch of individuals,” a visibly emotional Curtis mentioned, acknowledging the huge crew behind her movie. She even made point out of her lengthy profession as a scream queen and the moviegoers who supported her through the years, and emphasised, “We simply received an Oscar collectively!”
Curtis confronted stiff competitors from The Banshees of Inisherin’s Kerry Condon, Black Panther: Wakanda Without end’s Angela Bassett, The Whale’s Hong Chau, and her All the pieces In every single place All at As soon as co-star Stephanie Hsu, and for weeks it was anybody’s guess who would emerge victorious. Curtis thanked her All the pieces In every single place collaborators and emphasised the group effort that went into her victory: “We simply received an Oscar!”
Curtis mounted one of many extra conventional but unconventional campaigns. The trade vet made her manner into the best-supporting-actress class for her comedic flip as Deirdre the IRS agent in All the pieces In every single place All at As soon as, most certainly buoyed by the outpouring of trade love for the best-picture front-runner. As soon as she nabbed the nomination, Curtis went to work, homing in on her decades-long profession in Hollywood and in addition embracing her standing because the “OG nepo child,” highlighting her Hollywood lineage because the youngest daughter of Oscar nominees Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis in interviews and award speeches. On the SAG Awards, Curtis triumphed over the identical lineup of rivals that she confronted this night in her class—the primary main signal that she was a critical risk to take dwelling Oscar gold. Nonetheless, it was anybody’s guess whether or not the onetime scream queen would triumph come Oscar evening.
Curtis invoked her nepo-baby standing in her acceptance speech, mentioning her dad and mom and their very own Oscar nominations, and shouted to the heavens the information of her win. Regardless of her 4 a long time within the trade, All the pieces In every single place All at As soon as marks Curtis’s first Oscar nomination and win.
