Laura Dern beats Margot Robbie to win Best Supporting Actress at 2020 Oscars
Hot favourite Laura Dern breaks Aussie hearts, paying tribute to her actor parents as she accepts Best Supporting Actress gong.
Hot favourite Laura Dern has trumped Australia’s Margot Robbie for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the 92nd Academy Awards in Hollywood.
Robbie was nominated for Bombshell, but the trophy went to Dern for her role as a divorce lawyer in Netflix’s Marriage Story. It’s Dern’s first Oscar win after coming up empty-handed in 2015 for Wild and 1992 for Rambling Rose.
“Some say, never meet your heroes. I say if you’re really blessed, you get them as your parents,” an emotional Dern said in accepting the trophy.
“I share this with my acting legends, my heroes, Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern. You’ve got game. I love you.”
"Some say, never meet your heroes. But, I say, if you are really blessed you get them as your parents." @LauraDern dedicates her #Oscars win for #MarriageStory to her parents https://t.co/SKj2exF4dN pic.twitter.com/O6fjjM0Wv6
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 10, 2020
Dern also paid tribute to Marriage Story filmmaker Noah Baumbach. His film detailing a marriage’s end is about love and breaching divisions in the home and family and, hopefully, for all “in the name of the planet,” Dern said.
In a reflection of Dern’s across-the-board respect, her awards for Marriage Story ranged from the mainstream Oscars and British Academy awards to critics’ laurels, and prompted an Independent Spirit awards musical tribute on Saturday. The versatile actress also was on screen last year in Little Women, anchoring family life as Marmee for the film that garnered six Oscar bids, and has proved her commercial chops with the Jurassic franchise.
Dern comes from a pedigreed Hollywood family: Bruce Dern is a two-time Oscar nominee (Coming Home, Nebraska), and Ladd played her mother in Rambling Rose and earned her own Oscar nomination, for supporting actress. Laura Dern began acting as a child, moving from small roles to substantive, attention-getting work in the mid-1980s with Mask, Smooth Talk and Blue Velvet.
“I am really lucky at moments like this to have been raised by actors and to have been acting since I was 11,” she said in an interview with the Associated Press on the weekend.
“You stay detached, and you enjoy the gift of working with people you love and … remembering what it’s really about.” But there’s something to be said for the “other fun staff that’s dreamy and lovely,” she added.
Dern’s and Robbie’s fellow nominees were Kathy Bates for Richard Jewell; Scarlett Johansson for Jojo Rabbit and Florence Pugh for Little Women.
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