Ariana DeBose

Oscar winner Ariana DeBose opened this year's BAFTAs with an atypical performance which left viewers 'cringing'.

Y'all just want to jump on the hate train." "It wasn't phenomenal but it's not that bad either. Kate Reinking penned: "Look Ariana DeBose did the best she could with the material, but who the hell wrote that song? Alvin shared: "This has unlocked a whole new level of cringe for me. Like I can’t. The 32-year-old began her performance in song, but viewers were left baffled when she started rapping.

Ariana DeBose sang her heart out at the 2023 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) Awards in London, but comments on social media expressed the view that some ...

She did the best to her abilities with the material she was given. The nominees in attendance have been seen at several ceremonys recently as the awards season continues. But whoever wrote the lyrics to this song? It started out as a reworking of the Eurythmics song "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves" before it broke down into a spoken word rap. Actor and comedian Evan Ross Katz did the same, sharing stills of Lines included, "Hong Chau, Dolly de, Kerry and Carey with the C," and "Angela Bassett did the thing, Viola Davis my Woman King, Blanchett Cate you're a genius, Jamie Lee you are all of us."

BAFTA viewers were left far from impressed as Ariana DeBose took to the stage at the awards just one year after taking home the Best Supporting Actress ...

As he held back his tears, Austin told the star-studded crowd: "I want to thank my family. Thank you so much." "It definitely has filled me with a lot of appreciation for every moment that I got to spend with her and just how lucky I was to get the type of experiences that I had with her – very private moments and that sort of thing – that I’ll just cherish for the rest of my life."

Oscar winner Ariana DeBose opened the 2023 BAFTA Awards with a musical parody of Madonna's “Vogue” – and it was really weird. Ariana DeBose kicked off the ...

Last year, Ariana DeBose won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in West Side Story. Michelle, I’ve loved you from the start,” DeBose sang. [an emotional acceptance speech](https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/19/baftas-2023-charlotte-wells-aftersun-acceptance-speech/) after she won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut. Danielle D, you broke my heart. Ana, girl, you were great in Blonde. [shouting out various actresses in the room](https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/19/baftas-2023-red-carpet-fashion/), and while the idea was nice, the execution left a lot to be desired.

As the ceremony got underway, Carey Mulligan was incorrectly announced as the winner of the Supporting Actress award after a translation gaffe while deaf actor ...

except on the back.' All Quiet On The Western Front The most 'cringe' BAFTAs ever? While chatting, Hammond asked Dame Helen: 'Are we going out tonight by the way? All Quiet On The Western Front - WINNER Grant's jokes 'falling flat', Alison Hammond's 'daytime TV warbling' and luvvies 'patting each other on the back' Albrecht Schuch (All Quiet On The Western Front) She looked visibly shocked when her name was announced.' All Quiet On The Western Front, Edward Berger - WINNER The Banshees of Inisherin - WINNER The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse - WINNER The Banshees Of Inisherin - WINNER

The West Side Story star put in one of the all-time great berserk musical performances with a bespoke song celebrating, by name, many of this year's female ...

Angela Bassett did the thing. If you watch the video of the rap – and I pray you do – you’ll see that she is dancing approvingly. ‘Angela Bassett did the thing.’ The thing. A slightly iffy line, since Michelle Yeoh has been acting since 1984, which was seven years before Ariana DeBose was born, which means there is no physical way that DeBose could have possibly loved her since the start of her career. Honestly, here everyone was still too busy processing “Angela Bassett did the thing” to fully appreciate the next line. What you are looking at is the physical manifestation of the thought ‘I flew all the way here for this?’ She is enchanted by the chaos. In years to come, oral histories will be written about Angela Bassett Did the Thing. This is because, if this screengrab is any reaction, Ana de Armes has transformed into a bored Roman emperor, just waiting for an opportunity to set the lions on Ariana DeBose. Or, as DeBose calls it, “the one”. The first part was a full-bore rendition of Sisters are Doin’ It For Themselves; in itself an orgy of spinning and twirling and flung chairs, performed by DuBose in the manner of someone desperately trying to spook a horse. Technically it was a musical performance by Ariana DeBose, but it was a performance so gormless, so busy, so deeply and unsettlingly confusing, that to give it a name would only serve to minimise it.

We're not the only ones who can't get "Angela Bassett did the thing, Viola Davis my Woman King" out of their heads, right?

[2023 Baftas](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/../../../news/baftas/) featured some [big red carpet fashion choices](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/baftas-red-carpet-2023_uk_63f1f281e4b0c87f32f1e08f), [surprise wins](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/baftas-2023-complete-winners-list_uk_63f1ec21e4b04ff5b484711b) and, best of all, [Alison Hammond](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/../../../news/alison-hammond/). [Ariana DeBose](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/../../../news/ariana-debose/), who kicked things off with a rendition of Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves. [after it was pointed out on social media that all of the night’s winners were white](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/baftas-2023-all-the-winners-were-white-and-yes-people-noticed_uk_63f33904e4b0c87f32f246ed).

BAFTAs producer Nick Bullen breaks down the show's biggest moments, including DeBose's opener and the supporting actress winner snafu.

It was a warm night, and if you set out to have a warm night, hopefully that translates to the audience and people don’t get on stage and slap each other. And I can tell you now, there was a moment in the night where the AVID in the truck that was packaging the other awards crashed. It’s a case of having a slightly more natural ebb and flow to the show. How much of that was the smaller venue, and how much was intentional? And then the fact that the Prince and Princess of Wales were in the room of course gave an added poignancy. Was that done primarily because Prince William and Kate were in the audience after a number of years away? That rap section in the middle, mentioning the women in the room, was because it’s been a great year for women in film, and we wanted to celebrate that. So I think it’s one of those things that people have understood that it was all done with the best intentions, but unfortunately, there was a slip up. The songs she was singing are very familiar songs, the room was clapping, and people were sort of dancing to the music. I spent most of my night backstage, and all the feedback I was getting from the citation readers, winners coming through, and the stars going into Alison Hammond’s studio, was that the show felt warm, charming, and that there was joy in the room. “I think a lot of people don’t like change, and there’s a view that the BAFTAs have to be this slightly stiff, traditional British, middle-England messaging. While the lyrics felt clumsy to those watching at home, and a clip of the lyrics played nonstop on Twitter last night, the mood inside the room was more celebratory.

Ariana DeBose "did the thing" at the BAFTAs — and honestly, people need to calm down about it, a producer for the awards show says.

[Pantsuits (and shorts!) rule the Oscars 2022 red carpet: See Kristen Stewart, Ariana DeBose](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/03/27/ariana-debose-kristen-stewart-oscars-red-carpet-pants-shorts/7186996001/) [Bolu Babalola](https://twitter.com/BeeBabs/status/1627783514627137536) wrote. "The room was clapping, and people were sort of dancing to the music. "She only had a few weeks to put this whole thing together," he said. [The rap](https://twitter.com/BAFTA/status/1627385850639294464) has garnered plenty of reaction on Twitter, where fans noticed DeBose [appears to have disabled her account](https://twitter.com/arianadebose). "Viola Davis, my ‘Woman King' / Blanchett Cate, you’re a genius / Jamie Lee, you are all of us."

After winning the BAFTA supporting actress award last year for "West Side Story," Ariana DeBose returned to open the 2023 ceremony on Feb. 19.

All Quiet on the Western Front led the pack of nominees for this year’s BAFTA awards with a record-equaling haul of 14 nominations. The pioneering hip-hop artist and actress — who has starred in Top Boy (which also stars this year’s BAFTA best-supporting actor nominee Micheal Ward) — has won MOBO, Ivor Novello and BRIT awards. The actress — also known for Hamilton and Westworld — performed an exclusive contemporary song inspired by this year’s nominees on stage at London’s Royal Festival Hall.