Jamie Lee Curtis snubbed by Oscars for ‘The Last Showgirl’ despite SAG Award and BAFTA noms
One of Hollywood’s biggest cheerleaders has been sidelined at this year’s Oscars. Jamie Lee Curtis was snubbed for her performance in The Last Showgirl despite recent Best Supporting Actress nominations at both the SAG Awards and BAFTAs. In 2023, she won this category for her performance in Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Gia Coppola‘s The Last Showgirl stars Pamela Anderson as Shelly Gardner, a 57-year-old Las Vegas showgirl who has performed for three decades in Le Razzle Dazzle. Curtis plays Shelly’s older best friend, Annette, a cocktail waitress who was ousted from the show years prior. Her brief, but impactful performance had launched Curtis into fifth place in our Best Supporting Actress Oscar odds heading into nominations morning.
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Curtis, 66, has been vocal about her career resurgence in recent years. In addition to her Oscar win in 2023, the actress took home her first Emmy last year for playing the volatile matriarch Donna Berzatto (mother to Jeremy Allen White‘s Carmy) on The Bear. In a recent appearance on ABC’s morning talk show The View, Curtis stated, “I turned 60 and the ‘If not now, when? If not me, who?’ kicked in. I needed to manifest work for myself.”
Curtis, who has been a vocal champion of women in Hollywood, was excited to star alongside Anderson, who is experiencing her own career renaissance. The former Baywatch star received the best reviews of her career for The Last Showgirl and earned Best Actress nominations from the Golden Globes and SAG Awards. “I said yes to The Last Showgirl because Pamela Anderson was going to play Shelly,” Curtis told IndieWire last December. “There is something undeniable about her talent, grace, and beauty and yet she has been denied the opportunity to show us what she can do. I knew it, and Gia knew it, and now the world knows it.”
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Known as a one of the original “scream queens,” Curtis rose to stardom in the 1978 slasher Halloween. She reprised the role of Laurie Strode in the 2018 reboot of the film franchise, adding two more turns as serial killer Michael Myers’ favorite target in Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022). Now she’s producing and starring in Prime Video’s heist series The Sticky with Margo Martindale and has wrapped filming on Freakier Friday, Disney’s sequel to the beloved 2003 comedy Freaky Friday, with Lindsay Lohan.
“I’m stunned by my life,” she recently told Gold Derby. “I am shocked at my life. I’m shocked at the beauty of my life, the bounty of my life, the breadth and scope of my life, and the opportunities that I’m getting.”
This marks just the third time in the last five years that someone nominated for Best Supporting Actress by both the SAG Awards and BAFTAs has failed to make the Oscar lineup. Other members of this not-so-lucky club include Caitríona Balfe (Belfast in 2022) and Ruth Negga (Passing in 2022).
This year’s Oscar nominees for Best Supporting Actress are Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown), Ariana Grande (Wicked), Felicity Jones (The Brutalist), Isabella Rossellini (Conclave), and Zo? Salda?a (Emilia Pérez). The 97th Academy Awards will take place on March 2. The ceremony, hosted by Conan O’Brien, will air on ABC and be live-streamed on Hulu.
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