LOS ANGELES - Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser and other Oscar nominees walked a champagne-coloured carpet on Sunday as Everything Everywhere All at Once, Top Gun: Maverick and other blockbusters were competing for the coveted best picture prize. In case of an...
US actress Angela Bassett attends the 95th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 12, 2023. PHOTO: AFPShe said she was bewildered when she first read the script for Everything Everywhere, the unlikely best picture frontrunner about a dimension-hopping Chinese-American laundromat owner, her family and a tax auditor played by Curtis.
“I’m just so happy to be here,” said Banshees of Inisherin star Kerry Condon, also nominated for best supporting actress. “I really don’t mind what happens.” Several of 2022’s biggest hits at the multiplex landed in the best picture race, from Top Gun and Everything Everywhere to Elvis and Avatar: The Way of Water.
Oscars producers said last week that Gaga was unable to make it because she was in the middle of filming a sequel to the 2019 movie Joker. Organisers hope that sharing information about the contenders will give viewers people to root for and keep them watching.
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