Daughter of two legendary actors, Jamie Lee Curtis is part of Hollywood royalty and had long established herself as an essential actress, as comfortable in horror cinema as in full striptease. But he was still missing an Oscar.
The 64-year-old actress filled that void on Sunday, winning the Best Supporting Actress statuette for her character as the inflexible tax auditor in the wacky comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once.
The American actor of Vietnamese origin Ke Huy Quan won the Oscar for best supporting actor on Sunday for his incarnation of a somewhat awkward husband with unsuspected potential in the crazy comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once.
“My mother is 84 years old. And she watches (the ceremony) at home. Mom, I just won an Oscar! “, launched in tears of emotion the actor, revealed at the age of 12 years in” Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom “. He thus takes a resounding revenge on an industry which had completely forgotten him: until this film, he had given up his acting career since the 90s, faced with the lack of roles written by Hollywood for original actors. Asian.
THE Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro, a dark and uncompromising version of the adventures of the famous liar puppet, immersed in the fascist Italy of the 1930s, for its part won the Oscar for best animated film at the Oscars on Sunday.
The Oscars ceremony kicked off on Sunday, with an unorthodox favorite: Everything Everywhere All At Oncea crazy comedy in which a black hole in the shape of a bagel intersects with sex toys used as nunchucks.
The 95th ceremony opened with a nod to the film Top Gun: Maverick, one of the underdogs for the Best Picture award. Two fighter jets flew low over Hollywood with a deafening noise.
“Everyone loved it Top Gun, everyone, “said presenter Jimmy Kimmel. It is “the film that saved the films”, he summed up, recalling that this popular box allowed the public to finally reconnect with dark rooms after the pandemic.
The comedian then continued with a joke about the famous slap of Will Smith last year, still in everyone’s mind and that the production would like to forget.
“If anything unpredictable or violent happens during the ceremony, do what you did last year: nothing,” he said.
The Academy hopes that the audience of the great evenings will be there to witness the announced triumph ofEverythingEverywhere : nominated in 11 categories, this zany film met with great success in theaters, with 100 million dollars at the box office.
Combining action, schoolboy humor and science fiction, Everything Everywhere All At Once tells the adventures of an overworked laundromat owner, played by Michelle Yeoh, suddenly summoned to save a multitude of parallel universes from an evil force: the alter ego of her depressed daughter.
To achieve this, this Chinese immigrant must use the powers of her different alternative lives, visiting worlds that are often completely crazy, where some humans, for example, have fingers in the shape of hot dogs.
A moving reflection on family love, the film is carried by a brilliant cast, mostly Asian. He won most of the prizes awarded before the Oscars.
But this domination, prophesied for weeks, could come up against the voting system for the Oscar for best film, which tends to penalize polarizing works.
Reservations of certain voters
Before the ceremony, one of the Oscar voters told AFP that some members of the Academy, especially among the oldest, have reservations about the success of the film.
“It was a very daring and unique film, but not a traditional film, […] it could end up higher in the rankings for a lot of people,” he said on condition of anonymity.
This could benefit the German adaptation of the pacifist novel “There’s Nothing New in the West”, or Tom Cruise’s blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick.
The ceremony opened with the victory of the Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro in the category best animated film.
The competition between actors is much tighter.
The Best Actress Oscar is played out between Cate Blanchett, a ruthless conductor in Tarand Michelle Yeoh, the heroine ofEverythingEverywherewho could become the first winner of Asian origin to win this prize.
For Best Actor, Austin Butler (Elvis), Brendan Fraser (The Whale) and Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) are neck and neck.
Just like Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) for the statuette of the best female supporting role.
Only Ke Huy Quan, former child star ofIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom forgotten by Hollywood for more than 20 years, seems almost certain to win an Oscar, by dint of accumulating the rewards for his supporting role as endearing husband in EverythingEverywhere.
“Crisis Team”
The shadow of the famous slap in the face last year by Will Smith to comedian Chris Rock, after a joke about his wife’s alopecia, also hovers over this ceremony.
Last year, the Academy was criticized for letting Mr Smith receive his award for best actor on stage after his attack. He has since been banned from ceremonies for 10 years and this year, a “crisis team” must work behind the scenes to prepare for any eventuality.
The ceremony counts on the presence of the suites of Top Gun And Avatartwo major blockbusters, and on the participation of Rihanna — who will perform the song on stage Lift Me Up of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — in an attempt to counter the general decline in its audience.
For despite a rebound last year, interest in the Oscars has waned considerably since the heyday of the 1990s. titanicrewarded with 11 statuettes.
According to the magazine varietyLady Gaga, who was originally scheduled to be absent despite being nominated, could also make a last-minute appearance on stage.
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