Angela Bassett ‘gobsmacked’ Jamie Lee Curtis won Oscar over her: ‘Supreme disappointment’

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done the thing,” but Jamie Lee Curtis … won the thing. Angela Bassett felt “gobsmacked” after losing the 2023 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress to Jamie Lee Curtis. “I was,” Bassett, 65, told Oprah Winfrey during a recent interview on the Oprah Winfrey Network. “I thought I handled it very well, and that was my intention: to handle it very well.” “It was, of course, a supreme disappointment, and disappointment is human, so yes, I was disappointed, and I handled it like a human being.”The actress, who was nominated for her role as Queen Ramonda for Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” was competing for the prestigious award alongside Curtis, 65, for her role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”Other nominees included Hong Chau for “The Whale,” Kerry Cordon for “The Banshees of Inisherin” and Stephanie Hsu for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Bassett, who had previously scored a Golden Globe and a Critics’ Choice Award for the role, was believed to be a shoo-in.

However, Curtis managed to take the award home in a shocking upset.“I didn’t get the whole ‘Angela Bassett face,’” Winfrey, 70, told the actress, referring to how Bassett’s muted reaction to Curtis’ win went viral. “I thought, wow, you can see that [you] expected another thing, but you were still as gracious as a queen would be,” Winfrey continued. “I thought you actually handled it really well because people are saying your disappointment showed.

But I thought you handled it very well.”Bassett, who was the first person ever to be nominated for a Marvel film, agreed with the former talk show host. “Absolutely.