Some of the most disappointed movie fans are those who wanted Angela Bassett to win an Oscar Sunday night for her role as Queen Ramona in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
Veteran actress, Jamie Lee Curtis who starred in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” took home the Academy Award in the best supporting actress category instead.
Receiving the award for the role of Deirdre Beaubeirdre, Curtis thanked her family, friends, and everyone she’s worked with to get her to this point.
“To my family, my beautiful husband, Christoper Guest, our daughters, Annie and Ruby, my sister Kelly, we just won an Oscar,” she said. “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.”
With tears, she noted that both her parents, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, had been Oscar nominees as well.
Many people celebrated the win for Curtis, but others were not so happy that Bassett did not win. They freely tweeted their disappointment.
“Me stealing the oscar to give it to Angela Bassett,” @bvbhive wrote alongside a video of someone moving a giant Oscar statuette.
“Angela Bassett is still a winner to me,” @DJNYC1 tweeted.
Spencer Althouse, the editorial director of Buzzfeed, also tweeted.
“Angela Bassett’s reaction to Jamie Lee Curtis’ name being called…you can tell how much that Oscar would have meant to her. she is, was, and always will be incredible. I better see her on that stage SOON,” he wrote.
“Angela Bassett was absolutely stunning in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” writer Michael Patterson tweeted. “That performance was worthy of an Oscar, and incredibly worthy of being the first MCU performance to win an Oscar.”
Bassett did win a Golden Globe for her stunning perforce in the Marvel movie.
Angela Bassett’s reaction to Jamie Lee Curtis’ name being called…you can tell how much that Oscar would have meant to her. she is, was, and always will be incredible. I better see her on that stage SOON pic.twitter.com/oHDfuDUksG
— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) March 13, 2023
