Tony Curtis

The "Everything Everywhere All at Once" star nabbed her first Academy Award after a long and storied career in Hollywood.

I felt the depth of it all. The first time I started speaking as Deirdre, I knew she sounded like a combination of Fauci and Bernie Sanders. I ask a lot of questions. And I have nice skin, but I knew that I would never become a ‘cosmeceutical’ person. I have felt rejection. I have felt abandoned. I went there. “I have beautiful genetics. I am not going to advertise that ‘if you do this, you will look different and feel different.’ That’s just not going to be my path.” And I have been forgotten. “The moment with Michelle [Yeoh] in the hot dog universe on the page reads in a way as being absurd. This is the first Oscar win and nomination for Curtis, whose long and prolific career began as the quintessential final girl.

More than 40 years after making her screen debut, Jamie Lee Curtis can add Oscar winner to her resume. Curtis took home best supporting actress for ...

Jamie Lee Curtis received her first Oscar nomination in 2023. Her parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, were also nominated for Academy Awards.

Like her husband, she got her start in Hollywood in the late 1940s, appearing in movies such as Little Women and Act of Violence. Later, she starred in movies such as Touch of Evil, Bye Bye Birdie, and The Manchurian Candidate. The other nominees that year were Glynis Johns for The Sundowners; Shirley Knight for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; Mary Ure for Sons and Lovers; and Shirley Jones for Elmer Gantry. Poitier was also nominated for his role in the movie. Curtis, who was born in 1958, is the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. [Oscar](https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/oscars/) nomination.

Jamie Lee Curtis took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the 2023 Academy Awards for her role in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'

“To all of the people who have supported the genre movies that I’ve made for all these years that thousands and hundreds of thousands of people – we just won an Oscar together.” [nepotism babies were under attack](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jamie-lee-curtis-defends-nepo-baby-instagram-tony-curtis-janet-leigh-1234652618/), made space in her speech to acknowledge her lineage. In disbelief that her name was the one being called as the winner, Curtis excitedly mouthed “shut up” before taking the stage to accept the award.

Jamie Lee Curtis made her long-waited first Oscar nomination count. Curtis won best...

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He points to a comment from a man in the audience overheard by one of the crew: "He said he was sitting next to this man and he was with some woman. The movie and the Broadway show couldn't be more different, but in some ways, they both feel the same. Christian Borle ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") and J. And in fact, Harrison Ghee, who plays Daphne on stage, says all of us, we all have a Daphne inside us. And why would a guy want to marry a guy?" I don't care about a review in a paper – it's reaching the hearts of the people sitting in those seats, that you think just a little differently than when you came in the theater." "This scene with Jack Lemmon as Daphne playing the maracas in the hotel room, they had to time it so that the jokes didn't get drowned out by laughter," Isenberg said. Harrison Ghee ("Kinky Boots") are in the Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon roles, and it's a workout for them every night. Were you a little intimidated?" Isenberg noted a scene where Lemmon, as "Daphne," tells Curtis that a millionaire wants to marry him ["Osgood proposed to me. The film came out in 1959, and 63 Oscar nights ago, it was up for six awards. Director Billy Wilder is said to have practically pushed the two men into the ladies room to see if they could pass for the real thing (they did!).

Jamie Lee Curtis is now a supporting actress Oscar winner for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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An emotional Curtis then looked to the sky as she spoke of her late parents, and their own Oscar nominations. Curtis has received considerable award notice for the role, winning the Screen Actors Guild award for best supporting actress, and nominations from Bafta and the Golden Globes. Curtis plays tax inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre in Everything Everywhere All at Once, as well as the character’s alternate-universe counterparts.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jamie Lee Curtis comes from a strong acting lineage and now she has brought home an Oscar for her family. Curtis paid homage to her ...

The actor wore a face of surprise when she found out about her nomination in an photo she later posted on Instagram. She surpassed Judi Dench, who held the slot for her role in “Shakespeare in Love.” “I just won an Oscar!”

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More than 40 years after making her screen debut, Jamie Lee Curtis can add Oscar winner to her resume. Curtis took home best supporting actress for ...

As Jamie Lee Curtis sweeps up her very first Oscar, you might be wondering if her parents did too. So, did Tony Curtis win an Oscar?

Like her husband, Janet Leigh was nominated for just one Oscar but never took home the award. Curtis was nominated in this category alongside his co-star, Hollywood legend and Oscar history-maker, Sidney Poitier. Curtis was best known for starring in some of the biggest films of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Backstage at the awards, stars process their wins with selfies and by belting out Hungarian songs.

I am a proud product of them and I know they would be incredibly proud of me." Ke Huy Quan's comeback was the feel-good story of this awards season and perhaps it's because he was so relatable! "Making a film with this gravity reinforced how important it is to perform as if it's the first and last time you ever will," Fraser said. - Guneet Monga, best documentary short film winner for The Elephant Whisperers You don't need a seat at the table make your own table and sit on it." "There's so many who felt unseen and unheard...

'Everything Everywhere All at Once' star Jamie Lee Curtis won Best Supporting Actress at the 2023 Oscars, 62 years after her mom Janet Leigh was nominated ...

Curtis — who won for her multiverse-hopping role as Deirdre Beaubeirdra in [Everything Everywhere All at Once](https://ew.com/creative-work/everything-everywhere-all-at-once/) — dedicated her award to the many people who supported her, including her family and her Everything Everywhere costars. It's a lineage link." Everything Everywhere All at Once is Curtis' first Academy Award nomination and first win. Meanwhile, Curtis' father Tony Curtis scored a nomination for Best Actor in 1959 for The Defiant Ones. It's a beautiful link. "And I just won an Oscar!"

Jamie Lee Curtis won best supporting actress for her role as Deirdre Beaubeirdre in "Everything Everywhere All at Once."

But it was her performance in "Everything Everywhere All at Once" that ultimately landed her in the Oscars' record books. The actor wore a face of surprise when she found out about her nomination in an photo she later posted on Instagram. Curtis' nomination comes more than 60 years after her mother was nominated for her supporting acting work in "Psycho." "My mother and my father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories," Curtis said, beginning to cry as she accepted the award. Jamie Lee Curtis, 64, became the eighth oldest in the category's history to win. I am a proud product of them.

Jamie Lee Curtis' first ever Oscar win at the 2023 Awards saw her triumph in the same category her mom was once nominated for.

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 12: Jamie Lee Curtis, winner of Best Actress in. via Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images.

I am a product of them, and I am a proud product of them — I know that they would be incredibly proud of me,” she said. it’s not a great feeling,” she told People at the Oscars luncheon last month, to which she wore a pearl necklace given to her by her Jewish godparents, Lew and Eddie Wasserman — in honor of the Wassermans and her parents. “I cannot handle it if you cancel me now, you can cancel me tomorrow,” she beseeched, apologizing for the assumption. Later, at the Oscars’ press panel, she was asked a question by a Hungarian reporter. Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz and only spoke Hungarian for the first five years of his life. She started getting emotional when she mentioned her husband, Christopher Guest, who was looking at her lovingly from the crowd, and her two daughters and sister.

Jamie Lee Curtis' first ever Oscar win at the 2023 Awards saw her triumph in the same category her mom was once nominated for.

Her Oscars win was one of seven for Everything Everywhere All at Once which also won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing. Jamie Lee Curtis’ first ever Oscar win was the perfect opportunity to honor both of her beloved parents. This included Jamie Lee Curtis’ first ever Oscar win with her award in the Best Supporting Actress Category for her role as IRS inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre in the Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert movie. Her specialist areas including literature, the British Royal Family and knowing all there is to know about the latest TV shows on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and every streaming service out there. Now Jamie Lee Curtis’ first ever Oscar win has seen her take home an award they would doubtless be incredibly proud of. And when it comes to the winners arguably the night belonged to Everything Everywhere All at Once which scooped no fewer than seven Oscars.

Jamie Lee Curtis has won her first Academy Award for her performance in “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” which dominated at the Oscars with seven wins, ...

For her iconic performance in “Psycho,” Leigh received her one and only Academy Award nomination. “And when I’m someplace where I can only take a shower, I make sure the doors and windows of the house are locked. In my mother’s case, literally followed her,” Curtis told Canfield. Nepo babies, derived from “nepotism,” are successful actors, musicians, comedians and others with famous and successful parents or relatives. Well-known as Alfred Hitchcock’s heroine in “Psycho,” Janet Leigh was a famous actress, dancer and author. I also leave the bathroom door open and shower curtain open.” “To all of the people who have supported the genre movies that I have made for all these years, the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, we just won an Oscar together.” He died from cardiac arrest at the age of 85 in 2010, per The She was discovered by actress Norma Shearer during the late 1940s and soon after signed a contract with MGM, per Curtis was born in the Bronx, New York, to Jewish Hungarian immigrants in 1925. He married Janet Leigh in 1951, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1962. I am hundreds of people…we just won an Oscar.”— ABC News (@ABC)