Demi Moore fans are furious after the star didn’t receive an Oscar win for Best Actress on Sunday – with the honor going to much younger starlet Mikey Madison for her role in Anora.
The Ghost actress, 62, was a favorite to win after garnering other accolades for her performance as Elisabeth Sparkle in the body horror film The Substance.
Earlier this year, Moore garnered her very first Oscar nomination – despite her decades-long career which began in the 1980s.
Back in January, Moore – who stunned in a sparkling silver gown on the red carpet – garnered a Golden Globe win for Best Actress and later received a Critics Choice and SAG Award.
Towards the end of the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, Emma Stone took to the stage to present the award for the Best Actress category – with Madison, 25, eventually scoring the big win.
Social media users quickly jumped to X to share their thoughts over the moment, with one penning, ‘Demi moore should have won that award, Robbed #Oscars2025 #Oscars.’
Demi Moore, 62, fans have been left heartbroken after the star didn’t receive an Oscar win for Best Actress on Sunday – with the honor going to Mikey Madison for her role in Anora
Towards the end of the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, Emma Stone took to the stage to present the award for the Best Actress category – with Madison, 25, eventually scoring the big win
The Ghost actress was a favorite to win after garnering other accolades this year for her performance as Elisabeth Sparkle in the body horror film The Substance
Fans noted the parallels between Demi’s snub and the plot her her film, The Substance
‘Demi Moore’s Oscar speech that we will never hear.. #Oscars,’ another wrote, while a fan added, ‘Demi Moore lost WTF? You’re going to have a lot of horror fans pissed.’
Another shared, ‘DEMI MOORE I WILL AVENGE YOU #Oscars,’ and one penned, ‘Wow! Mikey Madison won the award for best actress at the #Oscars. That’s a surprise. Demi Moore was the big favorite.’
‘Yuuup. Mikey Madison was a surprise. Demi Moore had won pretty much evert major award leading up to the Oscars. Honestly a surprise lol,’ one tweeted.
Others referenced to the premise of The Substance, which follows, ‘A fading celebrity who takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself,’ per IMDB.
One shared, ‘Mikey Madison winning over Demi Moore is a very Substance-y twist. #Oscars.’
‘Demi Moore losing to Mikey Madison is basically the plot of The Substance,’ another shared, while one added, ‘Hollywood rewarding the young female actress while ignoring an incredible veteran (Fernanda Torres or Demi Moore) is the reason why a movie like The Substance is relevant to our society.’
One X user referenced to Hulu’s livestream of the ceremony glitching and typed out, ‘Hulu shut off cause they couldn’t bear to see us watch Demi Moore lose. #Oscars.’
‘The way it was my draft for congratulatory tweet for Demi Moore because I was convinced that she will win,’ another penned.
Social media users quickly jumped to X to share their thoughts over the moment, with one penning, ‘Demi moore should have won that award, Robbed #Oscars2025 #Oscars’
‘Demi Moore’s Oscar speech that we will never hear.. #Oscars,’ another wrote, while a fan added, ‘Demi Moore lost WTF? You’re going to have a lot of horror fans pissed’
Another shared, ‘DEMI MOORE I WILL AVENGE YOU #Oscars,’ and one penned, ‘Wow! Mikey Madison won the award for best actress at the #Oscars. That’s a surprise. Demi Moore was the big favorite’
‘Yuuup. Mikey Madison was a surprise. Demi Moore had won pretty much evert major award leading up to the Oscars. Honestly a surprise lol,’ one tweeted
Another shared, ‘Mikey Madison winning over Demi Moore is a very Substance-y twist. #Oscars’
One X user referenced to Hulu’s livestream of the ceremony glitching and typed out, ‘Hulu shut off cause they couldn’t bear to see us watch Demi Moore lose. #Oscars’
‘The way it was my draft for congratulatory tweet for Demi Moore because I was convinced that she will win,’ another penned
A fan wrote, ‘Happy for Mikey but Demi Moore deserved best actress SO MUCH #Oscars,’ and another added, ‘Demi Moore. Legend. Icon. I’m so sorry.’
‘Demi Moore could’ve made history for the horror community tonight but once again the oscars continue to disrespect horror films,’ one social media user shared.
Another X user typed out, ‘Can’t believe I stayed up all night to watch Demi Moore not win #Oscars.’
The Best Actress category during the ceremony also included Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here) and Karla Sofia Gascon (Emilia Perez).
The Substance was nominated for a total of five Academy Awards: Best Actress, Best Director, Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay as well as Best Makeup and Hairstyling – wining the latter.
Moore – who took on the leading role in the movie – received a number of honors including a Golden Globe, Critics Choice and SAG Award for her performance.
While accepting the Golden Globe in January, Moore added she felt ‘this wasn’t something that I was allowed to have, that I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that I couldn’t be acknowledged.’
‘And I bought in, and I believed that, and that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it, maybe I was complete, maybe I’ve done what I was supposed to do.’
She recalled, ‘And as I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out of the box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called The Substance, and the universe told me that you’re not done…’
The Best Actress category during the ceremony also included Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here) and Karla Sofia Gascon (Emilia Perez)
The actress concluded with, ‘I had a woman say to me, “Just know you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick.”‘
‘And so today,’ Moore continued, ‘I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that is driving me and for the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I do belong. Thank you so much.’
Last month, the beauty also received the Critics Choice Award for Best Actress.
On stage she referenced to The Substance and said, ‘When I started the journey of this film, I could never imagine being here. This is so far beyond anything that I could have hoped for.’
Demi also won a SAG Award for Best Actress and called the honor both ‘extraordinary’ and ‘meaningful.’
Later she also added, ‘I am so so grateful that I have continued over these so many years to be able to try and sometimes succeed and sometimes fail, but to be able to keep going.’
Moore emotionally expressed at the end, ‘That little girl who didn’t believe in herself. The words are kind of beyond me, so I’m just gonna to have to just say thank you.’
Sources told Page Six that as the actress aged, she struggled to get cast in more projects, with one telling the outlet: ‘Demi didn’t get offered roles for many years – you just have to look at her IMDB page to see that.’
Before taking on her role in The Substance, Demi had thought her Hollywood career was ‘complete.’
She touched on the topic while accepting the Maria Manetti Shrem Award for Acting during the SFFILM Awards in San Francisco in December.
Moore – who took on the leading role in the movie – received a number of honors including a Golden Globe, Critics Choice and SAG Award for her performance
Sources told Page Six that as the actress aged, she struggled to get cast in more projects, with one telling the outlet: ‘Demi didn’t get offered roles for many years – you just have to look at her IMDB page to see that’
The star expressed, ‘I’ve had a very long career, but I haven’t really ever been part of the conversations that allowed me to be part of [awards shows] and to really receive the love and celebration of my work. I’m really just so humbled.
‘At the beginning of 2022, I had a moment where I was at an event and I felt I didn’t belong. I didn’t know why I was there. I wanted to be invisible and I couldn’t figure out how to get out.’
She added, ‘And I thought, “You know what? Maybe my time doing this is complete. Maybe I’ve done everything I was supposed to do.” … Two weeks later, the script for The Substance came across my desk.’
Demi admitted she had been ‘almost ready to step away’ but told the crowd that she was grateful she chose not to.
Oscar winners 2025 full list – see who received honors for this year’s Academy Awards
Best Picture
Anora – WINNER
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked
Anora was the biggest winner of the night as Mikey Madison earned Best Actress
Best Director
Jacques Audiard — Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker — Anora – WINNER
Brady Corbet — The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat — The Substance
James Mangold — A Complete Unknown
Actress in a Leading Role
Cynthia Erivo — Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón — Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison — Anora – WINNER
Demi Moore — The Substance
Fernanda Torres — I’m Still Here
Actor in a Leading Role
Adrien Brody — The Brutalist – WINNER
Timothée Chalamet — A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo — Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes — Conclave
Sebastian Stan — The Apprentice
Actress in a Supporting Role
Monica Barbaro — A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande — Wicked
Felicity Jones — The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini — Conclave
Zoe Saldaña — Emilia Pérez – WINNER
Zoe Saldana was recognized in the Best Supporting Actress category for Emilia Perez
Actor in a Supporting Role
Yura Borisov — Anora
Kieran Culkin — A Real Pain – WINNER
Edward Norton — A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce — The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong — The Apprentice
Animated Feature Film
Flow – WINNER
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Cinematography
The Brutalist — Lol Crawley – WINNER
Dune: Part Two — Greig Fraser
Emilia Pérez — Paul Guilhaume
Maria — Ed Lachman
Nosferatu — Jarin Blaschke
Original Screenplay
Anora — Sean Baker – WINNER
The Brutalist — Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
A Real Pain — Jesse Eisenberg
September 5 — Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum; co-Written by Alex David
The Substance — Coralie Fargeat
Sean Baker earned three individual honors for Anora in addition to Best Picture
Adapted Screenplay
A Complete Unknown — James Mangold and Jay Cocks
Conclave — Peter Straughan – WINNER
Emilia Pérez — Jacques Audiard with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi
Nickel Boys — RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
Sing Sing — Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar; Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John ‘Divine G’ Whitfield
Achievement in Production Design
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked – Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales – WINNER
Achievement in Sound
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two – WINNER
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Dune: Part Two won Best Achievement in Sound as Gareth John, Richard King, and Ron Bartlett are seen left to right
Original Song
El Mal – Emilia Pérez – Clément Ducol, Camille, and Jacques Audiard – WINNER
The Journey – The Six Triple Eight
Like A Bird – Sing Sing
Mi Camino – Emilia Pérez
Never Too Late – Elton John: Never Too Late
Original Score
The Brutalist — Daniel Blumberg – WINNER
Conclave — Volker Bertelmann
Emilia Pérez — Clément Ducol and Camille
Wicked — John Powell and Stephen Schwartz
The Wild Robot — Kris Bowers
Live-Action Short Film
A Lien
Anuja
I’m Not a Robot – WINNER
The Last Ranger
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Animated Short Film
Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress – WINNER
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!
Documentary Feature Film
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land – WINNER
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
No Other Land took home Documentary Feature Film as Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham are seen left to right
Documentary Short Film
Death by Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra – WINNER
International Feature Film
I’m Still Here (Brazil) – WINNER
The Girl With the Needle (Denmark)
Emilia Pérez (France)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)
Flow (Latvia)
Makeup and Hairstyling
A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance – Pierre Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, and Marilyne Scarselli – WINNER
Wicked
Achievement in Costume Design
A Complete Unknown — Arianne Phillips
Conclave — Lisy Christl
Gladiator II — Janty Yates and Dave Crossman
Nosferatu — Linda Muir
Wicked — Paul Tazewell – WINNER
Blockbuster Wicked did not come away empty handed as Paul Tazewell became the first Black male winner of Achievement in Costume Design
Achievement in Film Editing
Anora — Sean Baker – WINNER
The Brutalist — David Jancso
Conclave — Nick Emerson
Emilia Pérez — Juliette Welfling
Wicked — Myron Kerstein
Visual Effects
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two – WINNER
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
