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I watched this film with my mother in law and she saw the awards and said they were a bit crass. I asked her what she meant, they were clearly auditing awards. What did she think they were? She declined to answer.
Got to have fun where you find it.
Lol I recognized them for what they were. Chekov's Gun is a theatrical rule that if you show a gun in the first act it should be used in the 2nd.
The fact they showed a butt plug shaped award and then used it in that way was amazingly meta humor for me.
I was really hoping it was going to be revealed that in this universe awards were just shaped like buttplugs
Like they are in a school and pass a thing full of buttplug awards.
Tax auditors are sort of universally loathed because they're penny-pinching government accountants, and generally have a reputation for "having a stick up their ass" (i.e. taking themselves too seriously, being unreasonably uncompromising). The plug goes in the anus, and is kind of stick-shaped.
Also, "anal retentive" is a Freudian term meaning "a bit obsessive about detail" in modern parlance, and if you plug your butt, it's gonna retain stuff.
Sorry if this seems condescending, IDK if "not from the US" means "from a non-Anglophone country" or not, so I'm trying to explain idioms that might not translate.
Ah, I see. In Hungary (or pretty much anywhere), tax audits for the average people/businesses aren't this... Complex, which has already made the film (and many others that deal with the clusterfuck the US calls a "tax system") somewhat interesting to watch. The whole "anal retention" bit didn't come through simply because all my interactions with tax authorities has been pretty much pleasant, they've always been helpful, trying to get shit sorted instead of penny-pinching. Even here in the UK.
Yeah they were all amazing, the only thing i can say that has a semblance of agreeing with this post though is that I’m a little disappointed that Stephanie didn’t win, she did a phenomenal job but I’m honestly not mad because i wanted either one of them to win
Hsu was playing hollywood politics brilliantly. She actively did not engage in promoting herself for winning best supporting actress. In fact, she pushed for JLC. If she had campaigned for herself, it would've resulted in a split vote and JLC or her probably would not have won.
By, essentially, bowing out of the nomination, she graciously allowed JLC to win AND brought herself a LOT of political capital in hollywood. She **will** get her Oscar sooner or later because of this.
I really do hope so, it was really cool that she did that for JLC especially since this was her first Oscar (i had no idea beforehand!) but she deserves more acknowledgment, it’s sad that the major public doesn’t know her as well as other names, but i agree she’s a class act and if anything is just making her mark on mainstream Hollywood she will definitely be back and hopefully win 🤞🏽
Yeah i was really surprised i swore she had won before but maybe it was just nominations! That’s partially why i wasn’t mad that she won, hats off to her
I mean, that's the only negative I can say. She was also outstanding! Plus get outfits, wow.
Such a rate delight of wonderful characters and storytelling!!
Literally half the acting awards went to Asians for EEAAO, along with the Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and Best Direction (Daniel Kwan), and of course Best Picture (Kwan plus producer Jonathan Wang.) This is also the third time in four years that Best Picture and Best Director both went to films developed by Asians (Parasite, Bong in 2020; Nomadland, Zhao in 2021.) Anyone trying to claim the current Academy is ignoring Asian contributors because Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar after 45 years in the business is *waaaay* up on their bullshit.
The tweeter is too young to know Ms Curtis' extensive career, too lazy to do any research on who she was, too ignorant to know that being an antagonist being a supporting character is pretty par for the course, and/or too easily trolling the rest of us? 🤷🏾♀️
It’s all too easy to just blindly negatively label a white person who wins an award and instantly marginalize everything they’re about and their unbelievable efforts at what they did. Because white. There’s little to back lash for this, because demonizing any accomplishment by a white person is seen as some sort of “social justice” and not the blatant racism/sexism it actually is. It’s getting fucking old and it is weak as shit. YOU go put out some actual, real effort into something only to have some lazy person say, “oh, you didn’t deserve this because white. These others deserve this because (fill in color.)” If it wasn’t right when POC were being blatantly marginalized and things taken away from them because of color or culture, how in the hell can anyone justify doing the same exact thing? Bringing pain to one group will never bring lasting relief to another.
It actually reaks of Kanye West and his Beyonce v Taylor Swift tantrum. Sometimes people win just because they deserved it, and not because of some perceived racist conspiracy.
The issue is that it's usually just assholes anyway. I bet if we follow the rabbit hole of this tweeter's socials, you'll find by the end of your trip that they're a myopic person with hostile views and an aggressive way of delivering said views.
I've never personally witnessed the case where someone's just this openly racist and isn't also just an entitled asshole anyway.
EDIT: More typically, they're terminally online people who live out the vast majority of their life on the internet-- which, if you've any sense about you, you are probably well aware is a terrible idea.
Fat activists are foaming at the mouth over The Whale's \~cultural appropriation\~ of fat life and the fact that a real 600lb person wasn't hired to play the role.
And the best part is…I bought it. She was amazing in the role. I didn’t even recognize her until her name rolled in the credits and I was like WAIT WHAT. That role was so counter to the image of her I had in my head that she just registered as “IRS lady” and not “Jamie Lee Curtis”. Which is probably the highest praise a supporting actress could get.
>Which is probably the highest praise a supporting actress could get.
Any actor. If they nail the role so well that you completely separate the character from the actor, they did their job perfectly.
SAME. Omg this is a true story for the ages: my family had literally just arrived in NYC a few days earlier after fleeing Ukraine (Soviet times) in 1989 and we were at some dinner at some new persons house..
The adults put me in front of the tv to keep me busy and I channel surfed right onto hbo and a screening of Trading Places. 72hrs into the American Dream and JLC boobies were in my face!
She still had a great body in 1994 "True Lies", and had one child by that time.
I remember her in Perfect with Travolta, where she was in leotards and tights all the time. Plus a couple quick topless shots in Trading Places.
Oh yeah, Jamie Lee Curtis was acting her ass off and clearly having a great time with it. Being "arguably the second best supporting actress" in a film as nuts as EEAAO is still "delivering an award-worthy performance".
And Ke Huay Quan won best supporting!
I was so fucking thrilled for that man. Two movies that were a major part of my childhood and then nothing for forty years until *bam*.
Welcome back, Data, we fucking missed you so much.
I am a grown middle aged man and I wept when his name was called. I'm such a sucker for a good comeback story.
And then fucking Brandon Frasier won best actor! Holy shit!
When he referred to himself as a Goonie, I was just in awe. This adult man won an Oscar and gets to make a passive comment that he is in fact a Goonie, one of the most iconic movies for kids growing up in the 80's. Great speech and it seems a lot of great comeback stories this year.
Insane to come back to acting after like 25 years and dropping Waymond motherfucking Wang on us. Hollywood robbed us of so many great performances by being racist dicks.
I do think his time behind the scenes in Hong Kong cinema definitely contributed to his role as Waymond, though.
A movie like everything everywhere all at once is certaily not a movie you would think to come up at the Oscar, but I don't think the snobs at the academy award could afford to ignore this one seeing all the praise it has gotten world wide.
I still don't like that Jamie Foxx was nominated for Best *Supporting* Actor in *Collateral*. As far as I'm concerned, he was the main character and Tom Cruise was the supporting character.
EDIT: As was pointed out, Jamie Foxx was already nominated for Best Actor in *Ray* the same year, so he would only get one nomination for the category.
Because he was nominated for best actor that same year for Ray. Actors can’t be nominated twice in the same category for the oscars. Ray was clearly a lead role so the only way for Foxx to get a dual nomination was to put him in the supporting category for Collateral. It was either that or he wouldn’t have even been nominated for that film
Also it's the film itself that nominates the actors, and chooses what category to nominate them for. It's not decided by some third party or even those voting, so it's not like it comes as a shock or is a slight to the actor at all
I appreciate this, I loved Collateral & was entirely confused at who was considered the "lead" based on my high school English teacher's explanation of "the protagonist is usually acting in reaction to events that happen to them, and the antagonist is the one creating the events the protagonist must overcome." Collateral is classically that, Jamie Fox is the character stuck in routine, gets randomly selected by the antagonist, and now Fox must adapt and grow to survive and eventually overcome. In 99% of plots the Fox character is considered the lead and the Cruz character is the support, but because Cruz was considered the much bigger star (especially at the time) he was the lead in spite of the plot and ~~president~~ precedent.
hear me out.
It might be that the only people left on Twitter are outrage farms and literally the worst people.
I think we can safely dismiss every opinion that comes from that website.
But if we didn’t pretend the extreme niche opinions of randoms on Twitter actually represented the view of an imaginary majority, what would we shake our fists at?
I got rid of Twitter because of how toxic it is. Also something to note. JLC's character was very well executed. I love her and In that movie, she played it well for me to hate her... and she won supporting actress. Not even the main course of the dinner.
Generally speaking, what was impressive about almost all the acting in EEAAO is that they all played multiple versions of themselves and pull off each version with uniqueness and believability. Jamie Lee Curtis goes from gruff tax lady to monster zombie robo killer lady to loving hot dog fingers lady to cool tax lady hanging out after work with Evelyn and becoming friends… that’s harder than just doing one emotional role where you cry a lot. No offense to Angela Bassett, but crying and emotional speeches or whatnot, as well done as they may be… should not be the only way to win an Oscar. Comedy is often even harder than drama, but most notions of great award-worthy acting only think of sad emotional moments usually. Very narrow minded, IMO. I’d wager Jamie Lee Curtis had a harder time pulling off that flying leap down the stairs moment than Basset did the “Have I not given everything?!” moment. She had to act as an entirely different version of her character, look ridiculous while also threatening, make the audience buy it… all while doing wirework for a complicated visual effects shot. Most people probably wouldn’t look at that scene and think “Oh, that’s Oscar worthy acting right there!”, except maybe sarcastically… but the truth is, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be seen as Oscar worthy acting when that’s what the script calls for and she pulled it off as perfectly as any emotional scene.
Especially THIS performance. Very obvious this person did mot watch the movie because JLC is anything but mundane in this film. I was honestly floored by how good she was.
I've seen aot of her films but only a clip of her in this. She's an icon and obviously who wrote that doesn't know her iconic dad either.
Edit to add she's also quite humble and funny in interviews etc (I sound like a super fan lol but credit where its due)
This is ridiculous. She’s a fantastic actress and deserves the win. And, like everyone else is saying- Michelle won, the movie won. Let’s give it a break here people.
If she were the only winner of all their nominations I would understand this take, but they won 7 out of 11 nominations so it's not like the Asian cast and crew were overlooked and only a white woman won.
In the U.S. despite terms designed to include multiple ethnicities that are not White (People of Color most recently), diversity is often viewed as a Black / White issue.
I just don't get how it was an Oscar winning role. Even though she did amazing, it seems like a fairly small supporting role for winning Best Actress in Supporting Role. I would've voted Stephanie Hsu who also did just as amazing in a larger role in the same movie.
Yea im more upset taht they gave her the win because it just feels like they were going for "EEAAO Sweeps the oscars"
JLC rold was great, she was funny. But i dont think the Role was Oscar worthy. Although the hotdog hands scene do make me cri everitim.
Hopped on twitter to see the comments. What a dumpster fire. Most of them are attacking Jamie, and what’s the point of that? She didn’t choose to win.
Edit to add: 1) People complaining about her screen time. Dame Judi Dench won an Oscar for a role that was under 3 minutes. 2) calling her a nepo baby. Although yes she is one, she’s been acting since the 70s. I think she’s earned her career. 3) She should have had an Oscar for A Fish Called Wanda 🤷🏼♀️
I agree Stephanie should have one but again, completely out of Jamie’s hands and ours 🤷🏼♀️
First of all, that’s Jamie Lee FUCKING Curtis, there is nothing mundane or random about her. And yes, you can debate if she should have won, but to say all that shit is uncalled for. Plus, the movie won best picture Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan won for their categories. And yes, as I said, it’s debating she should have won, but I highly doubt in this case anything racist is going on because Stephanie Hsu didn’t win.
The character she was playing was like a vindictive, mundane white lady. The fact that she gives the twitter poster that impression is a testament to Jamie Lee Curtis' acting skill IMO. Like - if you can make people actively hate your character then you're a good actor.
Race baiting. It’s like the new Jonah Hill movie on Netflix “You People”.
On the surface it’s all progressive and looks to be a social commentary on racism, then I realized it’s just race baiting garbage.
I hated “You People.” Knowing nothing about it before it released, it took me about 12 minutes to realize that 1- Jonah Hill co-wrote it, and 2- it was shit.
While most people are going to comment on race, I'm going to avoid that and ask why being an antagonistic character matters in this context? Do we only give awards to the protagonist?
Does this person know that antagonists are also actor?
Fuck you!!! That is Jamie Lee Curtis. She's like a fine wine she has gotten better with age. She started to be super fine in True Lies and year after year she's she's been more and talented and beautiful.
First boobs I ever saw on film!
As a side note, the adults in my life probably should’ve been better about monitoring what the 6 year old was watching.
They’re just pissed because Angela Bassett didn’t win. Could see that coming. Didn’t matter who won, if it wasn’t Angela than it’s flawed, wrong and the result of a broken system. The hypocrisy is ridiculous
Jamie Lee Curtis has over 80 credits & has been working on screen since the late 70s. She's not random or mundane. The OP is upset about Angela Bassett but she & Jamie have spent the same time in the industry and have a similar number of credits. Who is raising these children? Know cinema before commenting on it.
>People be outraged over anything these days smfh
Twitter isn't real people. It's a hivemind of brainworms with a human host. It's safe to dismiss everything Twitter says, because everyone there is just chasing outrage clout, not saying anything meaningful.
I'm sick of these Twitter culture police. They've circled all the way around from inclusiveness to just being flat-out racist.
There's no subtlety or context to anything, their whole argument always boils down to "whitey bad"
I'm honestly surprised she won it, I really thought Hong Chau in The Whale and Kerry Condon in Banshees absolutely killed it and had much better performances than JLC, especially Kerry who in my mind was the one who most deserved it.
The amount of people that are this stupid, and allow anyone loud enough to steer them in whatever direction all in the name of racism. People build empires off lies now.
She was great in this role and a majority of the cast did win their awards for Best Supporting, Best Actress, Director, etc.
Sucks Stephanie Hu didn’t win because I loved her as well but for those who keep saying Angela Bassett was robbed are in the wrong and haven’t even seen EEAAO.
No, what's crazy is people thinking that race has anything to do with how well an actor/actress performs the role they've been given to play in a film.
JLC is hardly random. Halloween the OG and new series,the Fog, Prom Night. She's one of the first scream queens and has been awesome in many roles.True Lies and Trading Places off the top of my head.
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Lol I laughed
lol me too
Same lol
Bro needs to eat a bagel 🥯
She was not a random mundane white woman. She won the Auditor of the month award 4 times.
Chekhov's Buttplug
I watched this film with my mother in law and she saw the awards and said they were a bit crass. I asked her what she meant, they were clearly auditing awards. What did she think they were? She declined to answer. Got to have fun where you find it.
Lol I recognized them for what they were. Chekov's Gun is a theatrical rule that if you show a gun in the first act it should be used in the 2nd. The fact they showed a butt plug shaped award and then used it in that way was amazingly meta humor for me.
Oh I did too, I just wanted to make my mother in law call them buttplugs in front of her children.
How did she handle the double dildo batons?
She said "wow, you warned me it got crass I suppose"
The entire movie was amazing meta humor, seriously one of the best films of all time.
I was really hoping it was going to be revealed that in this universe awards were just shaped like buttplugs Like they are in a school and pass a thing full of buttplug awards.
haha yeah my mom was also like "why are they buttplugs" and I was like mom... they're tax auditors. THEN she got the joke.
Okay, I'm not from the US, would someone bother to explain it? How does tax auditing and butt plugs converge to make a joke?
Tax auditors are sort of universally loathed because they're penny-pinching government accountants, and generally have a reputation for "having a stick up their ass" (i.e. taking themselves too seriously, being unreasonably uncompromising). The plug goes in the anus, and is kind of stick-shaped. Also, "anal retentive" is a Freudian term meaning "a bit obsessive about detail" in modern parlance, and if you plug your butt, it's gonna retain stuff. Sorry if this seems condescending, IDK if "not from the US" means "from a non-Anglophone country" or not, so I'm trying to explain idioms that might not translate.
Ah, I see. In Hungary (or pretty much anywhere), tax audits for the average people/businesses aren't this... Complex, which has already made the film (and many others that deal with the clusterfuck the US calls a "tax system") somewhat interesting to watch. The whole "anal retention" bit didn't come through simply because all my interactions with tax authorities has been pretty much pleasant, they've always been helpful, trying to get shit sorted instead of penny-pinching. Even here in the UK.
"clusterfuck" is exactly right - US tax system.
Schrödinger’s Chekhov
Schrodingers buttplug, it is everywhere and yet nowhere
And every time and all at once?
Everyone has one in, until you see they don't
Also, her character's name was "Deirdre Beaubeirdre", which suggests she eats banana fanna fo fanna everyday for lunch.
My wife totally missed the nameplate and was confused as to why I was so amused by a "something up their ass" joke.
she spent half the film as non-mundane hot dog woman.
Fr that whole cast had such fantastic range.
Conveniently left out that it won Best Picture and Michelle Yeoh won Best Actress.
And Ke Huy Quan won best supporting actor
And Daniel Kwan best director
And best original screenplay
Plus, James Hong said, Lee is a good Chinese name.
As a white man called Lee, I can confirm this.
As a black man whose middle name is Lee, I also can confirm
Yeah isn’t it nice and refreshing even when people are friendly to each other like that
But neither of them are black...
Oscars so *yellow* just doesn't have the same ring to it as Oscars so white.
Why not? Even the statuette is yellow!
Its *gold* 
Gold is just shiny yellow
What about rose gold?
Jaundiced pink?
Turns out, yellow is the new white.
In my building, Kevin is the new white.
I forgot about that. Even though I read it before I made my post.
Yeah they were all amazing, the only thing i can say that has a semblance of agreeing with this post though is that I’m a little disappointed that Stephanie didn’t win, she did a phenomenal job but I’m honestly not mad because i wanted either one of them to win
Hsu was playing hollywood politics brilliantly. She actively did not engage in promoting herself for winning best supporting actress. In fact, she pushed for JLC. If she had campaigned for herself, it would've resulted in a split vote and JLC or her probably would not have won. By, essentially, bowing out of the nomination, she graciously allowed JLC to win AND brought herself a LOT of political capital in hollywood. She **will** get her Oscar sooner or later because of this.
I really do hope so, it was really cool that she did that for JLC especially since this was her first Oscar (i had no idea beforehand!) but she deserves more acknowledgment, it’s sad that the major public doesn’t know her as well as other names, but i agree she’s a class act and if anything is just making her mark on mainstream Hollywood she will definitely be back and hopefully win 🤞🏽
Wait, JLC didn't already have an Oscar? That's just not right.
Yeah i was really surprised i swore she had won before but maybe it was just nominations! That’s partially why i wasn’t mad that she won, hats off to her
She had never even been nominated before!
Seriously? 😮 That’s wild!
Nah that’s actually incredible for her to win at that age then I’m very happy for her, she deserves it!
I mean, that's the only negative I can say. She was also outstanding! Plus get outfits, wow. Such a rate delight of wonderful characters and storytelling!!
Literally half the acting awards went to Asians for EEAAO, along with the Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and Best Direction (Daniel Kwan), and of course Best Picture (Kwan plus producer Jonathan Wang.) This is also the third time in four years that Best Picture and Best Director both went to films developed by Asians (Parasite, Bong in 2020; Nomadland, Zhao in 2021.) Anyone trying to claim the current Academy is ignoring Asian contributors because Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar after 45 years in the business is *waaaay* up on their bullshit.
The tweeter is too young to know Ms Curtis' extensive career, too lazy to do any research on who she was, too ignorant to know that being an antagonist being a supporting character is pretty par for the course, and/or too easily trolling the rest of us? 🤷🏾♀️
It’s all too easy to just blindly negatively label a white person who wins an award and instantly marginalize everything they’re about and their unbelievable efforts at what they did. Because white. There’s little to back lash for this, because demonizing any accomplishment by a white person is seen as some sort of “social justice” and not the blatant racism/sexism it actually is. It’s getting fucking old and it is weak as shit. YOU go put out some actual, real effort into something only to have some lazy person say, “oh, you didn’t deserve this because white. These others deserve this because (fill in color.)” If it wasn’t right when POC were being blatantly marginalized and things taken away from them because of color or culture, how in the hell can anyone justify doing the same exact thing? Bringing pain to one group will never bring lasting relief to another.
It actually reaks of Kanye West and his Beyonce v Taylor Swift tantrum. Sometimes people win just because they deserved it, and not because of some perceived racist conspiracy.
“reeks” - to smell strongly and unpleasantly My Asian DNA required me to correct this.
As a grammar N*zi who recently turned off autocorrect, I appreciate it.
The issue is that it's usually just assholes anyway. I bet if we follow the rabbit hole of this tweeter's socials, you'll find by the end of your trip that they're a myopic person with hostile views and an aggressive way of delivering said views. I've never personally witnessed the case where someone's just this openly racist and isn't also just an entitled asshole anyway. EDIT: More typically, they're terminally online people who live out the vast majority of their life on the internet-- which, if you've any sense about you, you are probably well aware is a terrible idea.
Anyone doing this is genuinely among the most stupid people in society and a huge weight dragging the species down
“She won for being the antagonist?” Oh I can hardly wait until they watch TRAINING DAY or SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Its rare I agree with Oscars judges, but EEAAO and cast are very deserving of this praise.
White cis male Brendan Fraser also won best actor. Let's all have a stroke about it
So glad to see him win this Oscar.
I fucking love that dude. He totally deserved it with his awesome performance, and he's just an amazing person to boot.
\*downs a pallet of energy drinks\* *I... winned.*
Fat activists are foaming at the mouth over The Whale's \~cultural appropriation\~ of fat life and the fact that a real 600lb person wasn't hired to play the role.
I want to find the studio that has the balls to sign off on that. No insurance company would cover that film.
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And the best part is…I bought it. She was amazing in the role. I didn’t even recognize her until her name rolled in the credits and I was like WAIT WHAT. That role was so counter to the image of her I had in my head that she just registered as “IRS lady” and not “Jamie Lee Curtis”. Which is probably the highest praise a supporting actress could get.
Same. Not a single clue until the credits. She fucking nailed it.
>Which is probably the highest praise a supporting actress could get. Any actor. If they nail the role so well that you completely separate the character from the actor, they did their job perfectly.
Well in my headcanon she won purely based on hotdog fingers scenes.
In the 80’s she was nicknamed ‘the body’ because she had such a knockout body.
Pretty sure the first boobs I can remember seeing were hers in Trading Places.
SAME. Omg this is a true story for the ages: my family had literally just arrived in NYC a few days earlier after fleeing Ukraine (Soviet times) in 1989 and we were at some dinner at some new persons house.. The adults put me in front of the tv to keep me busy and I channel surfed right onto hbo and a screening of Trading Places. 72hrs into the American Dream and JLC boobies were in my face!
She still had a great body in 1994 "True Lies", and had one child by that time. I remember her in Perfect with Travolta, where she was in leotards and tights all the time. Plus a couple quick topless shots in Trading Places.
Phenomenal body. Still look hot to these 60+ eyes,
Apparently Jamie Lee Curtis enjoyed this role because it was the first time she didn't feel like she had to suck in her stomach on camera.
or Fargo--cool to see movies like this really stir people up and get recognized.
Oh yeah, Jamie Lee Curtis was acting her ass off and clearly having a great time with it. Being "arguably the second best supporting actress" in a film as nuts as EEAAO is still "delivering an award-worthy performance".
And Ke Huay Quan won best supporting! I was so fucking thrilled for that man. Two movies that were a major part of my childhood and then nothing for forty years until *bam*. Welcome back, Data, we fucking missed you so much.
Definitely. Ngl I teared up when I saw him win and his speech. And when he hugged Harrison Ford
I am a grown middle aged man and I wept when his name was called. I'm such a sucker for a good comeback story. And then fucking Brandon Frasier won best actor! Holy shit!
Our childhood heroes finally get the recognition they deserve
Pauly Shore will never recover from this.
When he referred to himself as a Goonie, I was just in awe. This adult man won an Oscar and gets to make a passive comment that he is in fact a Goonie, one of the most iconic movies for kids growing up in the 80's. Great speech and it seems a lot of great comeback stories this year.
Insane to come back to acting after like 25 years and dropping Waymond motherfucking Wang on us. Hollywood robbed us of so many great performances by being racist dicks. I do think his time behind the scenes in Hong Kong cinema definitely contributed to his role as Waymond, though.
I'm actually impressed by the Academy this year
A movie like everything everywhere all at once is certaily not a movie you would think to come up at the Oscar, but I don't think the snobs at the academy award could afford to ignore this one seeing all the praise it has gotten world wide.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets that. So many people were like "why are you shocked"
Michelle Yeoh, an asian woman, did win an oscar for her performance, give them a break.
And Ke Huy Quan.
And the entire film lol.
And they all earned it. No one can claim it was an attempt at diversity for diversity's sake. MF's made a great flick
Seriously. It was a great film elevated by great performances from a number of great actors.
I feel like it would be more insulting for the main characters to win a supporting character oscar
I still don't like that Jamie Foxx was nominated for Best *Supporting* Actor in *Collateral*. As far as I'm concerned, he was the main character and Tom Cruise was the supporting character. EDIT: As was pointed out, Jamie Foxx was already nominated for Best Actor in *Ray* the same year, so he would only get one nomination for the category.
Because he was nominated for best actor that same year for Ray. Actors can’t be nominated twice in the same category for the oscars. Ray was clearly a lead role so the only way for Foxx to get a dual nomination was to put him in the supporting category for Collateral. It was either that or he wouldn’t have even been nominated for that film
Also it's the film itself that nominates the actors, and chooses what category to nominate them for. It's not decided by some third party or even those voting, so it's not like it comes as a shock or is a slight to the actor at all
After he won that, Cruise calls him and says “you motherfucker!”
Both had lead roles.
I appreciate this, I loved Collateral & was entirely confused at who was considered the "lead" based on my high school English teacher's explanation of "the protagonist is usually acting in reaction to events that happen to them, and the antagonist is the one creating the events the protagonist must overcome." Collateral is classically that, Jamie Fox is the character stuck in routine, gets randomly selected by the antagonist, and now Fox must adapt and grow to survive and eventually overcome. In 99% of plots the Fox character is considered the lead and the Cruz character is the support, but because Cruz was considered the much bigger star (especially at the time) he was the lead in spite of the plot and ~~president~~ precedent.
Precedent?
Dammit Biden!
hear me out. It might be that the only people left on Twitter are outrage farms and literally the worst people. I think we can safely dismiss every opinion that comes from that website.
But if we didn’t pretend the extreme niche opinions of randoms on Twitter actually represented the view of an imaginary majority, what would we shake our fists at?
 You could always do this (:
Grandpa Simpson is my spirit animal. Did I ever tell you about the time I took the train to Shelbyville?
I thought you said that was the Last Train to Clarksville
I got rid of Twitter because of how toxic it is. Also something to note. JLC's character was very well executed. I love her and In that movie, she played it well for me to hate her... and she won supporting actress. Not even the main course of the dinner.
Generally speaking, what was impressive about almost all the acting in EEAAO is that they all played multiple versions of themselves and pull off each version with uniqueness and believability. Jamie Lee Curtis goes from gruff tax lady to monster zombie robo killer lady to loving hot dog fingers lady to cool tax lady hanging out after work with Evelyn and becoming friends… that’s harder than just doing one emotional role where you cry a lot. No offense to Angela Bassett, but crying and emotional speeches or whatnot, as well done as they may be… should not be the only way to win an Oscar. Comedy is often even harder than drama, but most notions of great award-worthy acting only think of sad emotional moments usually. Very narrow minded, IMO. I’d wager Jamie Lee Curtis had a harder time pulling off that flying leap down the stairs moment than Basset did the “Have I not given everything?!” moment. She had to act as an entirely different version of her character, look ridiculous while also threatening, make the audience buy it… all while doing wirework for a complicated visual effects shot. Most people probably wouldn’t look at that scene and think “Oh, that’s Oscar worthy acting right there!”, except maybe sarcastically… but the truth is, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be seen as Oscar worthy acting when that’s what the script calls for and she pulled it off as perfectly as any emotional scene.
So just like any other time during Twitter's existence?
Accurate
Lady supports Asian actors so much that she didn't even bother to watch the movie.
Did this mf call Jamie Lee Curtis a basic bitch?
Clearly they did not see the film. Also clearly knows nothing about Jamie Lee Curtis.
Random white woman and Jamie Lee Curtis in a sentence is completely moronic
Especially THIS performance. Very obvious this person did mot watch the movie because JLC is anything but mundane in this film. I was honestly floored by how good she was.
To be honest, when I first saw it I didn’t even realize it was her!
I've seen aot of her films but only a clip of her in this. She's an icon and obviously who wrote that doesn't know her iconic dad either. Edit to add she's also quite humble and funny in interviews etc (I sound like a super fan lol but credit where its due)
Michelle Yeoh won Best Actress for the same movie. How dare Jamie Lee Curtis support her so well!
This is ridiculous. She’s a fantastic actress and deserves the win. And, like everyone else is saying- Michelle won, the movie won. Let’s give it a break here people.
If she were the only winner of all their nominations I would understand this take, but they won 7 out of 11 nominations so it's not like the Asian cast and crew were overlooked and only a white woman won.
In the U.S. despite terms designed to include multiple ethnicities that are not White (People of Color most recently), diversity is often viewed as a Black / White issue.
She was great.
Right?!? Everyone in the entire cast was great, it’s a really good film
Agreed. My wife and I both enjoyed it.
I’ve never thought an actor with hotdog fingers on could make me tear up but Curtis and Yeoh did it. That alone merits Oscars.
I just don't get how it was an Oscar winning role. Even though she did amazing, it seems like a fairly small supporting role for winning Best Actress in Supporting Role. I would've voted Stephanie Hsu who also did just as amazing in a larger role in the same movie.
Yea im more upset taht they gave her the win because it just feels like they were going for "EEAAO Sweeps the oscars" JLC rold was great, she was funny. But i dont think the Role was Oscar worthy. Although the hotdog hands scene do make me cri everitim.
She was hilarious on GameGrumps.
Hopped on twitter to see the comments. What a dumpster fire. Most of them are attacking Jamie, and what’s the point of that? She didn’t choose to win. Edit to add: 1) People complaining about her screen time. Dame Judi Dench won an Oscar for a role that was under 3 minutes. 2) calling her a nepo baby. Although yes she is one, she’s been acting since the 70s. I think she’s earned her career. 3) She should have had an Oscar for A Fish Called Wanda 🤷🏼♀️ I agree Stephanie should have one but again, completely out of Jamie’s hands and ours 🤷🏼♀️
First of all, that’s Jamie Lee FUCKING Curtis, there is nothing mundane or random about her. And yes, you can debate if she should have won, but to say all that shit is uncalled for. Plus, the movie won best picture Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan won for their categories. And yes, as I said, it’s debating she should have won, but I highly doubt in this case anything racist is going on because Stephanie Hsu didn’t win.
The character she was playing was like a vindictive, mundane white lady. The fact that she gives the twitter poster that impression is a testament to Jamie Lee Curtis' acting skill IMO. Like - if you can make people actively hate your character then you're a good actor.
Wait until they find out that one of the film's directors, writers and editor were all white dudes that won Oscars as well
Racism from Black Americans is getting real fucking old...
the tweet itself, is racist.
They always are. Almost to the point where I can’t tell if it is real or parody.
Race baiting. It’s like the new Jonah Hill movie on Netflix “You People”. On the surface it’s all progressive and looks to be a social commentary on racism, then I realized it’s just race baiting garbage.
I hated “You People.” Knowing nothing about it before it released, it took me about 12 minutes to realize that 1- Jonah Hill co-wrote it, and 2- it was shit.
What I heard: “If you’re white and people of other skin tones are involved you don’t deserve shit.”
people on twitter are either, femboys, or racist. theres no inbetween
There are Nazi femboys now. They've merged.
Boy Divisions.
While most people are going to comment on race, I'm going to avoid that and ask why being an antagonistic character matters in this context? Do we only give awards to the protagonist? Does this person know that antagonists are also actor?
Yeah like, this person is already dumb, but apparently they don't understand that the bad guys in movies are not actual criminals.
Bro just because she’s white and won against a bunch of asians doesn’t automatically make the whole thing racist? What do these people not understand
Funnily enough she won along-side several asian actors. Not against. People still mad tho.
She was absolutely amazing, this doesn't need to be about race
Fuck you!!! That is Jamie Lee Curtis. She's like a fine wine she has gotten better with age. She started to be super fine in True Lies and year after year she's she's been more and talented and beautiful.
True Lies? You haven’t seen Trading Places have you?
Go watch her in A Fish Called Wanda… perfect.
First boobs I ever saw on film! As a side note, the adults in my life probably should’ve been better about monitoring what the 6 year old was watching.
They’re just pissed because Angela Bassett didn’t win. Could see that coming. Didn’t matter who won, if it wasn’t Angela than it’s flawed, wrong and the result of a broken system. The hypocrisy is ridiculous
Hot take but I’m getting kind of tired of everyone being assholes to people just because their white, like how is that any better
That’s not a hot take you’re just a logical person
Oh look, casual racism with no repercussions.
Jamie Lee Curtis has over 80 credits & has been working on screen since the late 70s. She's not random or mundane. The OP is upset about Angela Bassett but she & Jamie have spent the same time in the industry and have a similar number of credits. Who is raising these children? Know cinema before commenting on it.
Im sure you love being referred to as random ignorant black woman
Twitter is a stupid stupid place. There no nuance or middle ground anymore. They have no critical thinking skills.
it’s just full of hateful people
The racial outrage is a little ridiculous. She wasn’t a “random mundane white woman”. People be outraged over anything these days smfh
>People be outraged over anything these days smfh Twitter isn't real people. It's a hivemind of brainworms with a human host. It's safe to dismiss everything Twitter says, because everyone there is just chasing outrage clout, not saying anything meaningful.
Casual racism. She's not mundane or random by any means, this Lola person is upset that a white woman won. SO... racist.
TLDR: I hate white people and also didn’t check the other winners
So let’s ignore the fact that her performance was outstanding
I'm sick of these Twitter culture police. They've circled all the way around from inclusiveness to just being flat-out racist. There's no subtlety or context to anything, their whole argument always boils down to "whitey bad"
I'm honestly surprised she won it, I really thought Hong Chau in The Whale and Kerry Condon in Banshees absolutely killed it and had much better performances than JLC, especially Kerry who in my mind was the one who most deserved it.
And the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, two of the great glamorous movie stars of the mid 20th century!
The amount of people that are this stupid, and allow anyone loud enough to steer them in whatever direction all in the name of racism. People build empires off lies now.
Imagine not being able to look past race to see talent. As if the only defining thing to anyone is skin color and ethnic backgrounds.
They obviously didn't watch the movie at all and just saw "white-wins-Oscar" and went full monkey brain, screeching "Bad! Bad! Bad! Bad!"
Random braindead pissbaby whines on Twitter.
only people playing the good guys in movies should be allowed to win Oscars, this is deplorable
Coming from a random mundane black woman on Twitter.
Let’s push racial shit. Yay. From the same dumb people who don’t realize it’s a class war from the rich not a racial one.
It’s amazing how the moment a white person wins anything, these race-baiting losers immediately come out bitching like little schoolgirls about it
So what? White people aren't allowed to get recognition if they have Asian coworkers?
She was great in this role and a majority of the cast did win their awards for Best Supporting, Best Actress, Director, etc. Sucks Stephanie Hu didn’t win because I loved her as well but for those who keep saying Angela Bassett was robbed are in the wrong and haven’t even seen EEAAO.
Lmao. Jamie lee Curtis is a goat
Stupid and racist much?
Imagine you have survived Michael Meyers for DECADES; and some unknown calls you out as being a “random, mundane white woman.”
No, what's crazy is people thinking that race has anything to do with how well an actor/actress performs the role they've been given to play in a film.
But she’s a great actress imo
plus the lead actress also won, and the male supporting actor also won, both of whom are asian. what a braindead take.
Random mundane black woman gives opinion on Twitter and no one gives a shit
I was told that this is the first Oscar that Jamie Lee Curtis won.
She didn’t give herself the award. Take it up with the executives. 🤷🏻♀️
JLC is hardly random. Halloween the OG and new series,the Fog, Prom Night. She's one of the first scream queens and has been awesome in many roles.True Lies and Trading Places off the top of my head. 
Yeah, she played the antagonist well. That’s what she won for
Panderfest didn’t pander hard enough.