The actress won the Best Supporting Actress statuette for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
More than 40 years have passed since the screen debut for Jamie Lee Curtis and now you can add the Oscar winner to your resume. Curtis took home the award for best supporting actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once in the Oscars 2023.
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Her win for playing IRS auditor Deirdre Beaubeirdre is a milestone in the decades-long career of Curtis, who made her film debut at the age of 19 in Halloween, the 1978 film that made her a star and defined her career. This is the first nomination and win for Curtis, daughter of the late Oscar winner. janet leigh and the late Oscar nominee Tony Curtis.
Curtis’ win was also an early indicator of a good night for Everything Everywhere All at Once, the indie hit that became an unlikely awards season juggernaut. Curtis’s job required her to play several characters, including a woman with sausages for fingers, a role that doesn’t seem tailor-made for Oscar voters.
In fact, Curtis acknowledged that his career has been in the genre space, and thanked both his fans and collaborators at Everything Everywhere (including Ke Huy Quanwho moments before took the Oscar for supporting actor, already Stephanie Hsualso nominated for best supporting actress).
“To all the people who have supported the genre films I have made, the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, we just won an Oscar together. My mother and my father were nominated for Oscars in different categoriesCurtis said, choking on emotion and looking up. “I just won an Oscar”.
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