The Oscar nominations for 2022’s movies are finally here, and many moviegoers are excited to see who’s been honored. But it’s not just audiences who are excited! One actor, in particular, is downright speechless. Jamie Lee Curtis, who has starred in dozens of films, has somehow never received an Oscar nomination. That is, until now.
Curtis, 64, has received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. The mind-bending multiverse film, which stars Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, received an astonishing 11 nominations for this year’s Oscars.
Curtis Reacts to the News
Jamie Lee Curtis, who has starred in critically acclaimed films like Trading Places and Knives Out, has astonishingly never been nominated for an Oscar. That makes her reaction Tuesday morning that much more heartwarming. In a social media post this morning, Curtis was photographed hugging her husband, Christopher Guest, after receiving the news. In another picture, she could be seen with her hand over her mouth, clearly stunned as she watched the nominations scrolling across her computer screen.
“THIS IS WHAT SURPRISE LOOKS LIKE! One of my oldest besties [Debbie Oppenheimer] texted me at 5:15 that she was sitting in front of my house and did I want company watching the announcements,” Curtis wrote in an Instagram post. “She came in and sat with me as I had sat with her the day she was heading toward the Oscar ceremony, the year she won. We held hands. I didn’t even realize she took pictures.”
“Outsider Looking In”
In another post, Curtis described herself as feeling like an “outsider looking in” on the film world. She noted that it was poetic that her first nomination would come from a role in a film like Everything Everywhere All at Once, given the film’s plot centers on immigrants and families.
“As this is a movie about a family of immigrants and their struggles through life, immediately I’m thinking of my parents, children of immigrants from Hungary and Denmark, whose families came here and sacrificed for their children to achieve their dreams,” Curtis wrote. “I can only imagine what it would feel like for them and their parents to hear that their daughter/granddaughter was nominated this morning for an Oscar.”
Curtis’s co-stars also received numerous Oscar nods for their roles in the film. Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu also picked up nominations for their performances in the critically lauded movie.
