Demi Moore Shared How She Really Felt About Losing To Mikey Madison At The 2025 Academy Awards
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In a moment that felt like Oscar Wilde’s quote, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” fully realized, the 62-year-old actor was up for Best Actress at the 2025 Oscars, and her biggest contender was Mikey Madison.
Mikey previously won Best Actress at the British Academy Film Awards and received several honors from critics associations, film festivals, and the National Board of Review.
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Demi starred in Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance as Elisabeth Sparkle, an actor turned fitness instructor who creates a younger version of herself, Sue (played by Margaret Qualley), through a mysterious body-horror medical treatment.
Without spoiling the entire movie, it almost felt like a scene straight out of the movie when 26-year-old Mikey’s name was announced at the 2025 Oscars instead of Demi’s.
Mikey starred in Sean Baker’s Anora as Ani, an exotic dancer who marries the reckless son of a Russian oligarch (played by Mark Eydelshteyn).
Now that time has passed since the 2025 Oscars; Demi is sharing her honest reaction to Mikey’s big Oscar win over her. In a TIME100 interview, the Ghost actor revealed she had a feeling how the night would turn out right before the commercial break.
“I leaned over and whispered to my manager, ‘I think it’s going to Mikey.’ I don’t know why I knew, but I did,” Demi said.
In hindsight, Demi recognized that she accepted the result and trusted the process. “I was so centered and calm. I didn’t feel gutted,” she said. “I didn’t feel any of those kinds of things. I just trusted, and am in trust of, whatever is going to unfold.”
While she accepted the night’s outcome, she was honest that winning the final big award of the season would’ve been nice. “The physical, human part that has ego, of course, has disappointment,” she added. “It certainly would have been wonderful to have won.”
With a career of almost 50 years, Demi isn’t letting that moment hold her back. “To go from the beginning of this last year feeling like I was never part of the conversation to being acknowledged in a critical way for my work has just allowed me to open up my belief in greater possibilities,” she says.
