The Oscars might have gone down with out practically as a lot drama as final 12 months’s slap heard ‘round the world, but that doesn’t imply there wasn’t any controversy!
Fans are actually battling it out over whether or not or not Angela Bassett’s response to dropping the Best Supporting Actress trophy to Jamie Lee Curtis was impolite or completely justified!
If you missed it, on Sunday night time, the 64-year-old actress received her first Academy Award for her function in Everything Everywhere All At Once. In successful the award, the Halloween alum beat out her personal co-star Stephanie Hsu, in addition to a number of different large hitters like The Whale’s Hong Chau, The Banshees of Inisherin‘s Kerry Condon, and, after all, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever‘s Angela Bassett.
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Throughout your entire award season, it’s been a decent race between Jamie and Angela. The award is especially noteworthy for the latter because it’s the primary time an actor from a Marvel film has been nominated for an Oscar for his or her function in a superhero movie. The prestigious present sometimes doesn’t acknowledge MCU performances to the identical diploma as different movie’s stars. Naturally, many of us had been hoping Angela would possibly get her flowers for her highly effective efficiency, however when it got here right down to it, she didn’t snag as many votes because the True Lies alum.
As the winner was learn aloud, Jamie rapidly appeared shocked AF! But it was one other particular person’s expression that caught most individuals’s consideration! Opposed to custom, Angela made NO effort to look joyful for the winner, as an alternative, she merely appeared down and frowned. Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NDeOvfBuWA
Oof.
You can inform the loss stung! Unfortunately, she most likely wasn’t happy to look on social media and see so many individuals attacking her for her so-called disrespectful angle towards the loss. Twitter lit up with annoyed commentary as trolls known as the 9-1-1 star “shady” and a “sore loser” for trying “crushed” on the announcement, complaining:
“Regardless of who you think should’ve won, it was poor on Angela Bassett’s part to just sit there miserably when Jamie won and not be happy for her. Had Angela won, Jamie would’ve been clapping for her. She knew very well her reaction was being played on live television”
“Angela Bassett is one of my favorite actors. However, I did not like her reaction to not winning. It made her look unprofessional and sour. I was disappointed by her not winning, but more disappointed by her reaction.”
However, many others thought the actress was completely proper to be upset! As Perezcious readers know, the present has typically been slammed for its lack of range previously. In truth, there’s solely ever been one Black lady to win Best Actress — Halle Berry in 2001. So, it’s not exhausting to see why viewers not solely thought it was excessive time for one more fierce Black performer to take house an award, but additionally justified given her efficiency as a grieving mom. The defenders chimed in:
“Angela Bassett’s reaction was perfect. [Zora Neale] Hurston wrote ‘if you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.’ Angela was snubbed. Again. Black women are regularly overworked, underpaid, devalued, disrespected & Ignored. Tonight that pain was palpable. Good.”
“Angela Bassett should’ve won #Oscars I’m glad she didn’t fake a reaction to entertain idiots telling us how a Black woman should handle Hollywood once again throwing awards at White women. I like Jamie Lee Curtis but she didn’t outperform Angela Basset or Stephanie Hsu #Oscar2023”
“Angela Bassett is allowed to be visibly disappointed that she didn’t win the Oscar”
“I actually appreciate that Angela didn’t put on a face for the sake of being a ‘good sport.’”
Angela Bassett was snubbed! #Oscars pic.twitter.com/0FCLGptWYB
— mcu reactions & clips (@reactmcu) March 13, 2023
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Others went on to level out that Kerry, who additionally didn’t win, wasn’t too thrilled both:
“Silent disappoint[ment] doesn’t equate to rudeness. Also, everyone wants to talk about Angela Bassett’s reaction & yet they ignore Kerry Condon literally mouthing the words ‘WTF’ when Jamie Lee Curtis’ name was called. Double standards.”
That mentioned, many customers clapped again, saying the actress truly exclaimed, “oh, wow.” Either approach, for a cut up second she, too, was disenchanted – and might you blame her?! They’ve all labored so exhausting for this second! It’s pure to be just a little unhappy when your identify isn’t known as. Not everybody thinks the Freaky Friday alum would’ve been so joyful if she’d misplaced both. When Angela took house the Golden Globe in January for a similar class, Jamie appeared equally upset, in line with one one that identified:
“I didn’t see y’all talking s**t back then”
Despite the backlash, we’d say Angela saved her composure! Sure, she wasn’t fast to clap, however a minimum of she didn’t have an outburst like Will Smith! Thoughts?! Do U assume she was snubbed? Sound OFF (under)!
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