Jamie Lee Curtis Wins Best Supporting Actress Oscar and Thanks Fans Who Supported Her Genre Movies
variety.comAngelique Jackson Jamie Lee Curtis has picked up her first Oscar, winning the best supporting actress trophy for her performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” “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. Where are the Daniels?,” she asked in her emotional acceptance speech, continuing to list of all the people who supported her. “Halloween” director John Carpenter was one of the first to congratulate the longtime horror star, tweeting “Congratulations Jamie Lee!
You are the bomb!”“To all the people who have supported the genre movies that I’ve made for these years, the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, we just won an Oscar together!,” she said.
She then looked up to the heavens and said, “And to my mother and my father, who were both nominated for Oscars in different categories — I just won an Oscar!” With a career spanning nearly five decades, Curtis — the daughter of two Oscar-nominated actors, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis — finally earned her first Oscar nomination this year.
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