Jamie Lee Curtis is one Hollywood star who has never forgotten her horror roots, most recently reprising her iconic role as Halloween final girl Laurie Strode in a series of legacy sequels. The very same year that the final film in the trilogy was released, Jamie Lee Curtis also starred in Everything Everywhere All At Once, a genre film that just won big at the Oscars.
Everything Everywhere All At Once won a whopping SEVEN statues at the 2023 Academy Awards, and one of those awards went directly to one of horror’s most iconic living legends.
For her role in Everything Everywhere All At Once, Jamie Lee Curtis won the “Best Supporting Actress” trophy, and she made sure to bring some horror love into her acceptance speech.
“I know it looks like I’m standing up here by myself, but I am not,” Jamie Lee Curtis began her speech, shouting out all the other people who made the moment possible for her.
Curtis went on to add, “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. And my mother [Janet Leigh] and my father [Tony Curtis] were both nominated for Oscars in different categories. I just won an Oscar.”
The genre movies that Curtis was referring to of course include Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night, Terror Train, and Road Games, early roles in her career that established Jamie Lee Curtis as one of the all-time great “Scream Queens.” While some actors move on from the genre and never mention it again, Curtis is clearly proud of her horror lineage. And it’s safe to say that we speak for all horror fans when we say how proud we are of Jamie Lee Curtis right now.
Congratulations, Jamie Lee Curtis!!
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