Angela Bassett offered nothing but support to Austin Butler during the Oscars on Sunday night.
13.03.2023 - 21:21 / justjared.com
Angela Bassett was considered a favorite to win the Best Supporting Actress award for her amazing work in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever at last night’s Academy Awards.
The 64-year-old star did not end up winning the Oscar last night. Instead, the prize was awarded to Jamie Lee Curtis for Everything Everywhere All At Once. Hong Chau (The Whale), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin), and Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once) were also nominated in the same category.
Angela looked visibly crushed that she did not win, and fans are now coming to her defense after the image went viral.
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Fans have taken to social media to react to Angela‘s reaction, and many are sympathizing and defending her for being human.
“I’m seeing too many people fixing their mouths to speak ill about Angela Bassett‘s reaction for not winning the #oscar. She’s allowed to be human.
Angela Bassett offered nothing but support to Austin Butler during the Oscars on Sunday night.
The Oscars may have gone down without nearly as much drama as last year’s slap heard ‘round the world, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any controversy!
Angela Bassett did not reign victorious like her character Queen Ramonda from the "Black Panther" franchise at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday. Bassett was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category, but the award was given to Jamie Lee Curtis for her portrayal of Deirdre Beaubeirdre in the critically acclaimed, and Academy Award Best Picture winner, "Everything Everywhere All at Once." During the ceremony, cameras were focused on all five nominees as presenters Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur announced Curtis' name, much to her shock.
Angela Bassett fans are supporting the actress after her reaction to losing the Oscar to Jamie Lee Curtis for Best Supporting Actress.
Angela Bassett looked devastated when she lost out to win a 2023 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress - with the star's reaction going viral when Jamie Lee Curtis was announced the winner. Angela, 64, the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever star, looked disappointed when her name wasn't called. Instead an overjoyed Curtis, also 64, screamed with happiness when she won her first-ever Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once.The Golden Globe winner's fellow nominees Hong Chau, 43, Kerry Condon, 40, and Stephanie Hsu, 32, were seen applauding Curtis on her win, however Angela didn't appear too impressed with her reaction quickly spreading on social media.
Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor History was made at this year’s Academy Awards, thanks to historic wins for Asian actors Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, along with costume designer Ruth E. Carter becoming the first Black woman to win two Oscars and best original song winner “Naatu Naatu” marking the first victory in the category for an Indian film. As expected, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” dominated with five wins, with “All Quiet on the Western Front” right behind it with four. In the meantime, acclaimed best picture nominees including “Elvis,” “The Fabelmans,” “Banshees of Inisherin” and “Tar” went home empty-handed despite 30 nominations between them. Here, Variety breaks down the biggest snubs and surprises of the 95th Annual Academy Awards.
went down largely as expected. However, there were some tight acting races that turned out differently from what many pundits assumed and some shocking slights in the less-glamorous categories. Here are the biggest snubs and surprises from the 95th Academy Awards.Austin Butler, who played the King, versus Brendan Fraser in “The Whale” for Best Actor was always a neck-and-neck fight. Even after Fraser was victorious at the SAG Awards, many thought Butler would still nudge him out at the Academy Awards.
In a night where "Everything Everywhere All at Once cleaned up, there were still many talented nominees who went overlooked from Stephanie Hsu to Colin Farrell.
Angela Bassett made history as the first Marvel Cinematic Universe star to score a nomination in one of the big acting categories at the 2023 Oscars.
#Oscars#WakandaForever,” tweeted April Reign, who got the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag streaming in years past over the lack of diversity among the Oscar nominees. “They know Angela Bassett got robbed,” tweeted @AustinPlanet.Spencer Althouse of BuzzFeed wrote, “Angela Bassett’s reaction to Jamie Lee Curtis’ name being called…you can tell how much that Oscar would have meant to her.
Angelique Jackson Jamie Lee Curtis has picked up her first Oscar, winning the best supporting actress trophy for her performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” “I know it looks like I’m standing up here by myself but I am not, I am hundreds of people. I’m hundreds of people. Where are the Daniels?,” she asked in her emotional acceptance speech, continuing to list of all the people who supported her. “Halloween” director John Carpenter was one of the first to congratulate the longtime horror star, tweeting “Congratulations Jamie Lee! You are the bomb!”“To all the people who have supported the genre movies that I’ve made for these years, the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, we just won an Oscar together!,” she said.
Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for their roles in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” respectively.When it was announced that Curtis won, Bassett seemed less than thrilled — and, as seen in ABC’s telecast, seemingly didn’t even stand up to clap.Some Twitter users were disappointed to see the “Black Panther” star sit through the applause for Curtis while others were just disappointed Basset didn’t win.“Regardless of who won that Oscar… Angela Bassett could have clapped for the winner. To just sit there and not clap because you didn’t win …” someone said.Advertisement“Dayumm #AngelaBassett it’s ok.
, one place the comic book franchise had not yet conquered was the Academy Awards. That is, until Angela Bassett became . Bassett, who was last nominated for an Oscar in 1994 for playing Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do With It, was nominated this year in the best supporting actress category for her portrayal of Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
In the first big surprise of the night, Jamie Lee Curtis won for her role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” She was nominated alongside her co-star Stephanie Hsu, Kerry Condon for “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Angela Bassett for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” and Hong Chau for “The Whale.” It was one of the most competitive categories, and Bassett, in particular, had long been considered to be the favorite as she had given a showstopping monologue that emerged as one of the best moments of her entire film.
Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar on Sunday night during the 95th Academy Awards. The win comes after the 64-year-old earned the first nomination in her 45-year-long career for her role in . Curtis beat out Angela Bassett (), Hong Chau (), Kerry Condon () and co-star Stephanie Hsu to take home the trophy for Best Supporting Actress. «I know it looks like I'm standing up here by myself, but I am not.
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Angelique Jackson Twenty-nine years ago, Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne were celebrating their Academy Award nominations for portraying Tina Turner and Ike Turner in 1993’s “What’s Love Got to Do With It.” This year, Bassett is nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar for her commanding performance as Queen Ramonda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” and her longtime collaborator couldn’t be more thrilled. Calling in between interviews for “John Wick: Chapter 4,” Fishburne tells Variety, “It’s what’s in my heart that I’d like to talk about more than what’s on my mind. I’m just really, really happy about all of the accolades that have been coming Angela’s way for this performance.”