ANGELA Bassett’s award-winning actor husband warned his partner that glory was not guaranteed and even unlikely at Sunday’s Oscars – The U.S. Sun can reveal.
In a chilling prediction, Emmy-winning Courtney B Vance told Bassett that the Academy overlooked many other icons for years, despite delivering gong-worthy performances.
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The 63-year-old TV star noted: “They did the same thing to Paul Newman and Al Pacino.”
Tony winner Vance insisted that his wife had spent decades “learning how to lose gracefully” after being shut out from Oscar glory.
On Sunday, some social media fans criticized the Wakanda Forever actress’ reaction to Jamie Lee Curtis winning Best Supporting Actress.
Vance had made it clear hours before the Academy Awards that an Oscar would not define his two-time nominee wife’s glittering career.
And even after a loss, she would “not break down” because the voters do not have such “power” or control over her emotions.
Vance said: “We just have to be patient. It’s not personal.
“They did the same thing to Paul Newman and Al Pacino.
“So that is what I have said for years, ‘Just when it’s your time, you can’t be denied.’“
His poignant words came before one of the biggest social media moments of the night.
As The U.S Sun revealed, Bassett’s devastating reaction to losing to Curtis divided fans as the moment went viral.
The 64-year-old actress appeared shocked and serious at the decision and failed to clap as she took the news in.
Some fans praised Bassett for showing “real human emotion,” while others dubbed the 64-year-old a “sore loser.”
While “grateful” for a nomination, Vance made it clear that she was cautious about losing: “As Hamlet said: ”t’will come…the readiness is all.”
He also clarified that his wife was prepared not to go home with gold before the ceremony.
“Everybody doesn’t need to get a trophy. We need to know how to lose gracefully,” Vance said.
“Everybody has to learn how to because most of the time in life, you lose. The question is, what are you going to do when it happens?
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“And so Angela has learned how to do that and at the same time knows that, ‘I am good. I am okay. I am really good about who I am and where I am.’”
Vance was adamant that winning or losing would never define her career.
“And it would be nice (winning), but if something happens and it doesn’t go, you’re not going to see her break down,” the Emmy winner said.
“You’re not going to get that power.
“You don’t have that power over her. You don’t have that power over me. They don’t have that power. The only one that has that power is above us.”
Vance spoke about his wife on the green carpet at the Oscar Wilde Awards just 69 hours before the Oscars.
He admitted telling his wife that the Academy voters “pick their favorites” based on when they feel “is their time.”
The Yale and Harvard graduate added: “The Oscars and that little gold statue means a whole lot. It means everything. It means you’ve climbed the pinnacle.
“But the fact that it hasn’t come for her for 29 years doesn’t mean that she still hasn’t climbed the pinnacle.
“She still is who she is, whether or not this organization anoints her or not.
“And that’s what she’s come to in these 29 years that: ‘I am the same person, whether or not you say I’m somebody or not.’
“I mean, Sally Field years ago said, ‘does this mean you like me?’ We like her. And everybody knows that.”
Asked about how all actors are made to wait by the Academy, he reacted: “It’s what is set up. It’s life.”
Vance, who won an Emmy as Johnnie Cochran in 2016’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, admits as her husband of 25 years the Oscar, she shares Cate Blanchett’s view that all nominees deserved gold.
Although she lost to Jamie in 2023, she made history by becoming the first Marvel Studios actor nominated for an Oscar.
Bassett was nominated for Best Actress in 1994 for her portrayal of Tina Turner in the biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It but lost the award to Holly Hunter for her work in the film The Piano.
A screen powerhouse since the 1980s, Bassett boasts Screen Actors Guild, 16 NAACP Image Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, her iconic roles feature in How Stella Got Her Groove Back and American Horror Story.
Vance spoke as he joined Irish nominees at the US-Ireland Alliance’s annual Oscar Wilde Awards, held again at Bad Robot, the Santa Monica production company of J.J. Abrams and Katie McGrath.
Alliance founder Trina Vargo, who created the event 17 years ago, was delighted to honor Kerry Condon, Jessie Buckley, and Eve Hewson this year and AN CAILÍN CIÚIN.
Hollywood producer, director and “honorary Irishman,” J.J. Abrams emceed the festivities, sponsored by film studio owners Hackman Capital Partners/The MBS Group.
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