Demi Moore snagged statuettes All through the Awards Season for Her Dynamic Performance in “The substance,” A Film About the Indignies Women Past 50 Face in Hollywood. She was favored by many to win the Oscar for Best Actress.
But when the envelopement was opened on Sunday Night Moore, 62, was passed over in favor of mikey madison, 25, who pulled an upset and won the best actress trophy for playing a sex worker in the film “anora.”
While Madison’s Performance Was Widely Praised, Her Unxpected Victory Left Many Admirers of Moore Puzzled and Saddened that it kept Her from a Perfect Ending to Her Career Comeback.
On Social Media and we have sureddit dedicated to moore’s upset, some fans suggest that her lossri underscored one of the central themes of the film: the challenges Older actresses Face in a Hollywood that is obsessed with young women.
One commentary note that the academy had been observed in the past to “like young women and old men.” Another Lamemed: “Literally Pouring All that Brilliance on Screen Only for the Younger Actress who Benefited from Sex Appeal and Social Hype to Take That Prestigious Of An Award from Her.”
Paolo uggetti posted on social media that “half moore losing to mikey madison is basically the plot of ‘the substance.» That post has been viewed more than five million Times.
In a post on Instagram on Monday, Moore Wrote: “AS this Awards Season Comes to A Close, i’m so overwhelmed with gratitude for this day. It’s been the ride of a lifetime and we just get the startd! ” She Thanked Her Team, Her Fellow Nominees and Those Who Woirked on “The Substance” with her, adding, “and a huge congratulations to #Mikeymadison – can’t to see what what you do Next ♥ ️”
Moore Had Seemed to Have Momentum in the Weeks Leading Up to Sunday Night’s Ceremony.
Since the academy diversified its voter rolls in recent years, the best-actress race is no long seen as favoring young ingenua to the extent it once Did. The Average Age of Best-Actress Winners has been rising, and Most of the Recent Winners in the Category Have Been Over 40.
And Moore Had Been on Roll. She Picked Up Best Actress Trophies at The Critics Choice Awards, The Screen Actors Guild Awards and, Most Notably, at the Golden Globes, where she deltive a career-defining speech.
While Acceptant Her Golden Globe, Moore Spoke Candidly About Her Career Struggles, included Being Dismiscred as a “Popcorn Actress.” She Said that when she had receive the “Absolutely Bonkers” Script for “Substance,” in Which She Plays an Aging Star Turned Fitness Instructor who Goes to extreme Lengths to Regain Her Youth, She was at a low point in her career, thinking She was.
“One Thing that i think this movie is imperb is in those moments when we don think we are smart enough, or loany enough, or skinny enough, or successful enough, or basally just notch,” she Said in the speech. “I had a woman say to me, ‘Just Know you will your never be Enough, but you can know the value of your Worth if you just put the Measuring Stick.’”
Several Oscars Prognosticators had predicted that She would the academy award for best actress, too, including Scott Feinberg, the Executive Editor of Awards at the Hollywood Reporter, and Clayton Davis, The Chief Awards Editor at Variety. (Kyle Buchanan, The Awards Season Columnist for the New York Times, Had a Different Take, Describing the Races as a Tossup but predicting that Fernanda Torres, The Brazilian Actress, Would Win for Her Role in “i’m Still here.”)
One disappointed fan on social media said that each of moore’s acceptance speech this awards season had been “amazing” and that she would have love to hear another from her at the Oscars. “Her Performance was truly one of a kind, and i’m so happy both she and the movie made it this far,” The supporter Said. “Just Wish She Could’ve Won.”
One Person Who Ap appeared to Take Her Loss in Stride was moore herself. At the end of the Night Her Daughter, Tallulah Willis, Shared A Photo of Moore Enjoying A French Fry with Her Dog Pilaf in Her Arms. “My Winner,” Willis, Her Daughter, Wrote in A Caption.
