She’s one of the biggest names in Hollywood never to have won an Oscar. In fact, she only received her first Academy Awards nomination this year – for horror-satire film The Substance.
But Demi Moore can claim she’s got clout …after being featured on Time Magazine’s list of the Most Influential People on the planet.
The movie star, 62, has been named a ‘titan’ of 2025 alongside singer Ed Sheeran, tennis star Serena Williams.
Demi’s Oscar loss send shockwaves through Hollywood with fans quick to claim it a case of ‘life imitating art’ as she lost to rising star Mikey Madison, 25.
In the critically acclaimed film, Demi plays Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed TV aerobics instructor who is unceremoniously sacked as she hits her 50th birthday.
She takes a black-market drug which can create a ‘younger, more beautiful, more perfect’ version of its user but is left struggling with the balance after her younger version Sue (played by Margaret Qualley) becomes a star.
Demi Moore can claim she’s got clout …after being featured on Time Magazine’s list of the most influential people on the planet
She’s one of the biggest names in Hollywood never to have won an Oscar. In fact, she only received her first Academy Awards nomination this year – for horror-satire film The Substance
Demi’s Oscar loss send shockwaves through Hollywood with fans quick to claim it a case of ‘life imitating art’ as she lost to rising star Mikey Madison , 25 (pictured)
Speaking about the loss she told Time she ‘already knew’ she’d be going home empty handed even before the winner was announced.
‘I don’t know why I knew, but I did, I was so centred and calm. I didn’t feel gutted. I didn’t feel any of those kinds of things. I just trusted, and am in trust of, whatever is going to unfold’.
The actress, who found fame as one of the 80s rat pack, cemented herself as a bonafide movie star in blockbusters like Indecent Proposal and Ghost.
She went on to become Hollywood’s highest paid actress after landing $12.5M for 1996’s Striptease, but despite still earning less than then husband and Die Hard star Bruce Willis, she was cruelly nicknamed ‘Gimmie Moore’ by the media.
Demi said the label was ‘quite damaging’ to her career and reputation and to this day is still ‘very hurtful’.
Speaking to Time fellow movie star Demi’s pal Gwyneth Paltrow, 52, gushed: ‘There are women now who have broken a $20 million-per-movie salary, and it’s not on the front page of anything, they always say when you’re first through the thicket, you get all the scratches. She was that person’.
Meanwhile singer Sheeran, 34, was praised by actor Chris Hemsworth in the magazine for his ability to resonate with fans through his music. Hemsworth said he had a ‘supernatural ability to connect’.
They joined US President Donald Trump, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Time100’s index of ‘titans’.
Speaking about the loss she told Time she ‘already knew’ she’d be going home empty handed even before the winner was announced
In the critically acclaimed film, Demi plays Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed TV aerobics instructor who is unceremoniously sacked as she hits her 50th birthday
The actress, who found fame as one of the 80s rat pack, cemented herself as a bonafide movie star in blockbusters like Indecent Proposal and Ghost (pictured)
![Gwyneth Paltrow, (L) gushed: 'There are women now who have broken a $20 million-per-movie salary, and it's not on the front page of anything, they always say when you're first through the thicket, you get all the scratches. [Demi] was that person'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/04/17/00/97367669-14620241-image-a-242_1744846211534.jpg "Demi Moore, 62, named as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People after career resurgence and Oscar nod as she joins Serena Williams and Ed Sheeran on the star-studded list 7")
Gwyneth Paltrow, (L) gushed: ‘There are women now who have broken a $20 million-per-movie salary, and it’s not on the front page of anything, they always say when you’re first through the thicket, you get all the scratches. [Demi] was that person’
Sir Keir was inducted by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, who praised him for his commitment to Ukraine at a time of ‘geopolitical turmoil’.
Irish musician Hozier and pop star Nicole Scherzinger are also among the 100 names on the list of ‘forces shaping our lives’ along with French rape survivor Gisele Pelicot and tech billionaire Elon Musk.
The index also mentioned British marine biologist Richard Thompson, who came up with the term micro-plastics.
Elsewhere in the issue Blake Lively got a rare piece of good news amid her lawsuits with Justin Baldoni and rumors of a feud with her co-star Anna Kendrick.
Amid the storm of controversy that has been gathering around her for months, Lively, 37, was also bequeathed a coveted honour.
She received a glowing tribute inside the magazine from Sherrilyn Ifill, who was head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund when Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds gave $1 million to the organization in 2019.
The donation came seven years after the Hollywood couple got married on a former slave plantation in South Carolina, a move that has repeatedly brought them in for fierce criticism and for which Reynolds subsequently apologized.
In her testimonial, Ifill hailed Lively as a ‘philanthropist’ and a ‘serious person’ who was ‘committed to move this country forward.’
Meanwhile the tennis ace was also featured and posed up a storm for the magazine shoot
Williams won 73 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including 23 major women’s singles titles
Singer Sheeran, 34, was praised by actor Chris Hemsworth in the magazine for his ability to resonate with fans through his music.
Hemsworth said he had a ‘supernatural ability to connect’.
Lively has been included in the Titans section of honorees among such names as Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels and Olympic gymnast Simone Biles.
Netflix chief Ted Sarandos, fashion designer Miuccia Prada, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and Palantir CEO Alex Karp were in the same section.
The honor comes after Lively was accused of trying wrestle control of the It Ends With Us film from Justin Baldoni by storyboard artist, Talia Spencer, on Sunday’s edition of 60 Minutes Australia.
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In a segment exploring the ugly legal battle between Lively and and Baldoni, 41, Spencer fiercely defended the director, who Lively accused of sexual harassment and launching a retaliatory smear campaign against her in December.
While speaking about her former boss, Spencer described Baldoni, who has denied all of Lively’s allegations and filed a defamation countersuit against her, as ‘one of the few directors I’ve worked for that was kind and respectful.’
‘I feel like maybe Blake smelled his kindness, mistook it for weakness and tried to take advantage and take power,’ she speculated.
When asked directly if she believed Lively attempted to seize control of the film, Spencer answered: ‘I think she tried to, yes.’
As for whether Lively was successful in obtaining that power, the It Ends With Us crew member stated she feels ‘there was a massive compromise in terms of Justin’s original vision for the film.’
Spencer also recalled thinking that Baldoni cared ‘a lot about the vision’ of the film and was ‘not in it for fame.’
