Ariana DeBose has won the Oscar for best supporting actress at the 94th Academy Awards, currently under way at the Dolby theatre in Los Angeles.
“You see an openly queer woman of colour, an Afro-Latina, who found her strength in life through art. DeBose won the prize for her role in the Steven Spielberg-directed West Side Story remake, in which she plays the key role of Anita, the girlfriend of Sharks gang leader Bernardo, and sings the famous number America. In the original film Anita was played by Rita Moreno, who also won the best supporting actress Oscar for the role in 1962. Ariana DeBose has won the Oscar for best supporting actress at the 94th Academy Awards, currently under way at the Dolby theatre in Los Angeles.
DeBose won the Oscar for her performance as Anita in the classic musical, 60 years after her predecessor in the role, Rita Moreno, earned the statue herself.
On the production, she added: “It was the summer of a life time and I am the most privileged and grateful to have spent it with all of you.” Hall also referred to the choice to move eight categories to a pre-recorded segment, saying it was “a controversial and difficult decision but I think we’ve moved on”, as the lights flickered on and off on the stage. The star, 31, collected her gong dressed in red Valentino trousers and a crop top and said her win was proof that “dreams do come true”.
During her acceptance speech, the actress thanked the film's director Steven Spielberg and Rita Moreno, who originated the role in the 1961 movies, saying they ...
“After West Side Story “I couldn’t get a job except in gang movies, lesser ones.” Moreno made history 60 years ago when she became the first Latina to win an Oscar, which she won for the same role of Anita. But Moreno told “60 Minutes” last year that it wasn’t the starting off point for her career as she hoped. Actress Ariana DeBose made history Sunday as the first Afro Latina and openly queer actor of color to take home an Oscar with her win for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in “West Side Story.” In her acceptance speech, DeBose said “dreams do come true.”
DeBose appeared in the original cast of Hamilton, and took home the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2022 Oscars.
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DeBose is also only the second Latina woman to win an acting Oscar... after Rita Moreno, for West Side Story.
Rita Moreno for West Side Story. (She’s also only the second actor born in the 1990s to win, after Jennifer Lawrence, but that’s more just weird, and not “deeply infuriating.”) Tonight’s ceremony is actually only the first time in 20 years that an openly queer performer has even been nominated for an acting award (Kristen Stewart, who’s up for Best Actress for Spencer, is in a similar boat to DeBose). The most “recent” was Ian McKellan’s nomination for his performance in The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. And while we’re cataloguing baffling information, let’s also consider that DeBose is now only the second Latina to have won an acting Oscar, after... DeBose won, of course, for her performance in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, where she took on the role of Anita. (DeBose was quick to namecheck both fellow Anita Rita Moreno in her acceptance speech, as well as Spielberg, who she reminded was now “stuck with her.)
Ariana DeBose has become the first queer woman of colour to win an Oscar, after picking up the award for best supporting actress. DeBose won the award for her ...
Some straight people who identify with LGBT culture, such as children of queer parents, call themselves ‘culturally queer’. Queer is still offensive as an epithet; best used only in quotations or for formal names of organisations or events.” Using ‘queer’ is a way of reminding us how we are perceived by the rest of the world.” The word became particularly popular with queer people of colour. But when a lot of lesbians and gay men wake up in the morning we feel angry and disgusted, not gay. Referencing her childhood, DeBose said: “Imagine this little girl in the back seat of a white Ford Focus, look into her eyes. You see an openly queer woman of colour, an Afro-Latina, who found her strength in life through art.
West Side Story star Ariana DeBose made history as the first openly queer person to win an acting Oscar. Her makeup artist used 14 Charlotte Tilbury ...
For DeBose's neutral and natural lip, Tiller used Lip Cheat in Pillow Talk 2, a slightly deeper variation of the shade made especially for medium skin tones. The multi-shade highlighting palette won't be available to purchase until March 31, but all of the other Charlotte Tilbury products used on DeBose are available now on the brand's website: Magic Serum Crystal Elixir, Magic Cream, Beautiful Skin Foundation, Lip Cheat, and many others. the slap that broke the Internet. Despite all of the drama, I'd like to take this moment to focus on and celebrate Ariana DeBose, who made history by winning the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role as Anita in West Side Story. The actress' glam for the big day was almost entirely thanks to the TikTok- and celebrity-loved brand Charlotte Tilbury.