Jamie Lee Curtis won best supporting actress over favored Angela Bassett at the Oscars Sunday night.
It's been 29 years since Angela Bassett's last Oscar nomination, for playing Tina Turner in "What's Love Got to Do With It," and though her nomination for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" was widely expected, it still had a profound effect on her.
She remains a frontrunner in the category hours before the Oscars ceremony, which began at 8 p.m. ET from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Bassett said her character "is reflective of what mothers have been doing forever, and also a representation of what Black mothers have been doing -- holding families together. Holding memories, holding wisdom... That's what she is attempting to do in spite of the trauma she has experienced herself.""This moment has been so special, it's been a highlight of my career," she said. "He definitely kicked it off.
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