March 6th 2024.
Angela Bassett was recently honored with an Oscar, a well-deserved recognition for her incredible talent and contributions to the film industry. However, even with this achievement, she still remembers the disappointment she felt when she was snubbed at the previous Academy Awards in 2023.
It was a shock to many when Bassett lost the Best Supporting Actress category to Jamie Lee Curtis, who co-starred in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Bassett was nominated for her performance in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” a groundbreaking and critically acclaimed film. Despite this, she gracefully accepted an Honorary Academy Award at the 14th Governors Awards in January.
But in a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey for OWN Spotlight, Bassett opened up about the disappointment she felt losing the Oscar to Curtis. She shared, “I thought I handled it well. And that was my intention, to handle it very well. It was, of course, a supreme disappointment. And disappointment is human. I was disappointed and I handled it like a human being. I was [gracious] for myself and my children who were there with me.”
Bassett's husband, Courtney B. Vance, also spoke out about the Academy's snub in a recent profile for People magazine. He expressed his frustration over his wife being snubbed not once, but twice by the Oscars. Fans of Bassett may remember her 1993 loss for her portrayal of Tina Turner in the acclaimed biopic “What's Love Got to Do With It.” And after 30 years, she faced another disappointment when she lost the Best Actress Oscar to Holly Hunter for “The Piano.”
While the honorary Oscar was a special and meaningful moment for Bassett, Vance couldn't help but think back to those past moments when she was not recognized by the Academy. He shared, “The honorary Oscar was a wonderful night, but I flashed back to 30 years ago when they didn't call her name, and then when they didn't call her name last March. This was an opportunity for her to stand up there. A lot of people saw it, but not the billion people that would see it at the Oscars. But it meant everything to her.”
Vance also highlighted Bassett's humility and shyness when it comes to recognition. He said, “She'll never toot her own horn.” And after two Oscar snubs, Bassett finally has an Academy Award of her own, even if it was honorary. As she said in her powerful Oscars speech, “One of the things that always that I say to myself and to my kids is, 'Find the good and praise it.'”
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