While I didn’t want Demi Moore to win the Oscar, I actually felt sorry for her when Mikey Madison’s name was called for Best Actress. To be fair, I think even Demi knew it was a toss-up – in the past two months, Demi and Mikey have been splitting the awards down the middle, with Demi picking up the SAG Award, Golden Globe and Critics Choice, and Mikey winning the BAFTA, Spirit Award and a lot of critics’ awards. Demi dressed like a winner though – her Armani gown was beautiful and I honestly thought she was going to end up winning, based solely on style vibes. She dressed for success! I like that she went for a very traditional look too.
Felicity Jones also wore Armani – she’s gone for very sleek, simple looks throughout the awards season, probably because she was never a favorite in Best Supporting Actress. Which is a shame – I remember seeing a movie critic/awards-watcher say, back in December, that people should have put some money behind Felicity’s campaign, because she really did a good job in The Brutalist. It’s true. Still, she’s part of yet another Oscar-winning film and she starred opposite another Oscar-winning lead actor (she did the same in The Theory of Everything).
Raffey Cassidy is the British actress who played Zsófia in The Brutalist. A difficult role, and she hasn’t gotten enough attention for what she did in that film. She ended up getting a lot of attention at the Oscars, just because she was the only woman (I saw) wearing Loewe. And it was a really good Loewe too!
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- Red carpet arrivals at the 97th Annual Academy Awards held at Dolby Theater Featuring: Demi Moore Where: Los Angeles, California, United States When: 02 Mar 2025 Credit: Valerie/MediaPunch/INSTARimages
I was glad Mikey won. Demi getting to the Oscars was pretty amazing. So many much better actresses were ignored. But that’s the Oscars. It’s never about best anything.
Happy for Mikey too.👏👏
I actually enjoyed Anora.
Anni infuriated me. Made me laugh. Confused me about her own mendacious intentions and at the end I just felt sorry for her.
All the emotions.🤪
I also hope this is the end of ‘career’ Oscar, than ‘performance’ Oscar pathway that SAG favours.
I loved Demi’s acting in the movie. She was award worthy. Let’s not invalidate someone’s hard work because of their age. Oscars and most of the awards are usually about PR. There is a huge expensive machine to promote the actors / actresses behind the scenes. Yes, not all actresses can get the same shot to get a nomination, because their studio may not have the budget to promote their work. That doesn’t mean, the ones who got nominated didn’t deserve it.
Both Armani dresses are lovely.
It doesn’t matter what Demi wears because I can’t get past her face anyway. Yikes, she needs to stop.
Has she had a facelift or is it just botox and fillers? Either way, she does not look natural or an older version of herself. Even her bone structure looks different from her GH and St elmo’s fire days.
I wonder if Demi changed surgeons or if she’s now in that place of always tweaking to chase “youth.” For years she was the ideal for amazing but subtle work. Comments generally were that whoever was doing the work/procedures had a light and gifted touch because you sort of figured she had work but couldn’t really tell what as if you put pics of General Hospital vs current Demi Moore, she still looked like herself. Now, not even close, which is a bummer.
@DAVEW
About +/- 10 years ago I always praised Demi for her plastic surgery. She supposedly had a completely different, new face, but it was so natural that I had to look at old photos to compare. Basically, she lengthened her face, teeth and did cheekbones. In the original she had a short beard (small distances between the nose, mouth and the end of the chin and invisible cheekbones). In some old street photos you could already see the change in her face with age. Her face was drooping, cheeks sunken. She was starting to look like an older woman. The new face she made, although different from the original, suited her so perfectly that it seemed that she had always been like that. I wrote so much because I watched her and admired her metamorphosis. She just had to stick to it, but she started to overdo it and at one of the fashion shows where she was a model, her “cut” cheekbones and deformed lips were terrible. Now it is definitely better, but the first corrections were perfect. She seems like a cool woman, but despite her apparent fame, she is not very confident and definitely underestimated
I wished her that Oscar because she was so close, she is a bit older now and it is not known if she will get another chance. I hope so… if she gets into good movies, and I wish her that.
Yes, yes, 1000 times yes. She looks like the Madame Tussaud’s wax version of herself — kinda recognizable but also very much off. This should not be normalized.
And it looks like she got an extra touch up right before the Oscar’s too. How sad.
I really thought Demi was going to take it but I’m not mad that Mickey won, it was well deserved. But I was disappointed that Conclave lost BP to Anora. Not that Anora didn’t deserve it but I thought Conclave deserved it more.
The structure of the dress was exquisite.
But what an upset.😯😯 On par with Anthony Hopkins’ win over Chadwick.
Both were signaled by the BAFTA win. Sometimes we focus on the Globes and critics choice but they aren’t voters. Looking at guilds (anora killed it), SAG and BAFTA often provide a better idea. Obviously it was really close since SAG is the biggest voting block and Chadwick and Demi won those. But a lot (most?) of BAFTA voters are also in SAG and Guild members vote in all categories. The guilds’ love of Anora and Mikey’s BAFTA win had me thinking she could pull the win out.
Her bold-ons embarass me on her behalf.
I liked Anora but I seriously don’t understand the hype. I don’t think it deserved so many Oscars and I’m sick of this new trend at the Oscar’s where they pick one movie and give it all the big awards. I also think Demi should have won over Mikey but I was afraid she’d lose bc the Oscars also love giving the Best Actress award to ingenues.
I agree and am at an absolute loss as to how this movie won so much. She was ok in the an ok film. I mean of course she was going to win , the academy loves rewarding an ingenue getting naked but her performance vs the nuanced performances of the other nominees feels just I don’t know the movie bored me to tears and the acting was fine, the writing was imho very very VERY mediocre so I feel like Anora is another Crash.
Anora was so boring, cliched, implausible. I almost stopped watched, kept waiting for something to happen. So confused by its success.
I love silver tones and didn’t like Felicity’s and sort of liked Raffey’s. I liked Demi’s Armani. I was sorry she lost. Now I want to see Anora.