The Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress is Jamie Lee Curtis.
This year’s Academy Awards ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre
in Los Angeles on Sunday (12 March) with Jimmy Kimmel returning as
host.
The third category to be announced was Best Supporting Actress,
for which Curtis took home the golden statuette.
Ariana DeBose
and CODA Troy Kotsur presented the award, with the latter relaying their
speech using sign language.
Curtis, 64, won for her role as
Deirdre Beaubeirdre in Everything Everywhere All At Once, which also stars
Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and fellow Best Supporting Actress nominee
Stephanie Hsu.
Other nominees in the category included Angela Bassett for Black
Panther: Wakanda Forever, Hong Chau for The Whale, Kerry Condon for The
Banshees of Inisheerin, and Hsu also for Everything Everywhere All at
Once.
Accepting her award on stage, Curtis acknowledged her famous
parents, fellow actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, in her speech. She also
thanked EEAO directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
This is
the first year that Curtis has been nominated for an Academy award. Last
month, she took home a Screen Actors Guild award for the same role.
Curtis’s
win followed straight after her co-star Ke Huy Quan won Best Supporting
Actor. He was visibly emotional as he took to the stage to accept the
award.
“My mum is 84 years old and she’s at home watching,” said
the actor. “Mum, I just won an Oscar!”
