Following a close competition among the nominees, Jamie Lee Curtis of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday, beating the likes of Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) and Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”).
Bassett, Curtis and Kerry have been exchanging victories throughout the season. Initially, Bassett appeared to be the frontrunner after winning at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards. However, Condon later received a win from the British voting organization BAFTA, and Curtis emerged victorious at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Curtis, who is the daughter of the actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, began her career in Hollywood as a scream queen in the “Halloween” series, then transitioned to playing seductive characters in “Trading Places” and “True Lies.” However, in “Everything Everywhere All At Once” she performed against her typical roles as a sour and not so likeable tax auditor.
The star on Sunday requested the audience to calm down so that she could deliver her speech without any interruptions. “I have 45 seconds, and I promised Janet Yang I wouldn’t do it well, because I’m a good girl,” she said.
Here’s Jamie’s full acceptance speech
“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. I am the — where are the Daniels? — Daniels [the ‘Everything Everywhere’ directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert], Jonathan [Wang], Ley Line Entertainment, the entire crew, my bae Michelle [Yeoh], Ke [Huy Quan], Steph [Hsu], the entire group of artists who made this movie. We just won an Oscar!
“To my dream team: my agent Rick Kurtzman, Alan Wertheimer, Heidi Schaeffer, Sean James, Grace Ahn, Jane Ross. We just won an Oscar!
“To my family, my beautiful husband, Christopher Guest; our daughters, Annie and Ruby; my sister Kelly. We just won an Oscar! To all of the people who have supported the genre movies that I have made for all these years, the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, we just won an Oscar together.
“And my mother and my father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories. I just won an Oscar.”