Jamie Lee Curtis has surpassed her famous parents, who were both nominated, by winning her first Academy Award.
For her celebrated performance in “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once,” the famous offspring of “Psycho” star Janet Leigh and “Some Like It Hot” actor Tony Curtis won the Oscar for best actress in a supporting role”.
During her moving speech, 64-year-old Curtis reminded the audience of her Hollywood roots and that her late parents could never take the stage.
I’m not alone, although it might seem that way. Before mentioning her coworkers from “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once,” Curtis said, “I am hundreds of different people. We just won an Oscar”.
She thanked Curtis’s “niche flick” fans and her family.
Curtis added at the conclusion, “And my mother and father were both nominated for Oscars in different categories. “I just got an Oscar. “.
Leigh received a nomination for best actress in a supporting role in 1960 for her work in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” while Tony Curtis received a nomination for best actor in a leading role in 1958 for his work in “The Defiant Ones”.
In a series of articles about celebrities with well-known parents, Vulture.Com dubbed 2022 “The Year of the Nepo Baby,” prompting Curtis to weigh in on the nepotism discussion in December.
She wrote then that “the current discourse surrounding kids is just geared to demean, disparage, and harm. There isn’t a day in my professional life that goes by that I am not reminded that I am the daughter of movie stars”.
Curtis, whose credits include “Freaky Friday” and “Halloween,” disagreed with the “assumptions and snide remarks that someone related to someone else who is famous in their field for their art would somehow have no talent at all.” She said that while she had navigated her decades-long acting career “with the advantages my associated and reflected fame brought me,” she did so “with the advantages my fame brought me”.
The mother of two remarked, “I have found that to be untrue.
When she won the SAG Award last month for best performance by a female actor in a supporting role, Curtis also made fun of her “Nepo Baby” moniker.
At one point in her speech, Curtis said, “I know you look at me and think ‘nepo baby,’ and I get that. But the truth is, I’m 64, and I find this to be simply amazing”.
