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Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña both nabbed supporting acting awards for their work in A Real Pain and Emilia Pérez, respectively. The Brutalist, Wicked, Emilia Pérez, and Dune: Part Two all took home awards as well._  by [Chad de Guzman](https://time.com/author/chad-de-guzman/)  ## Chad de Guzman Reporter Mar 3, 2025 10:00 AM UTC  Demi Moore attends the 97th Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on March 2, 2025. Demi Moore attends the 97th Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on March 2, 2025.Angela Weiss—AFP/Getty Images  by [Chad de Guzman](https://time.com/author/chad-de-guzman/)  ## Chad de Guzman Reporter Mar 3, 2025 10:00 AM UTC Going into the [2025 Academy Awards](https://time.com/7262764/oscars-academy-awards-updates-2025/), [Demi Moore](https://time.com/7260443/demi-moore-oscar-nomination-career/) had become a favorite for the Best Actress category. The 62-year-old’s portrayal of an aging, insecure actress deemed past her prime who took a black-market drug to try to become a “younger, more beautiful, more perfect” version of herself in the body horror [_The Substance_](https://time.com/6980524/the-substance-review/) earned Moore best actress accolades at the Golden Globe Awards, Critics Choice Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. But it wasn’t enough to take Hollywood’s most coveted prize: an Oscar, which went instead to 25-year-old [_Anora_](https://time.com/6980900/anora-review-sean-baker/) star Mikey Madison. **Read More:** [_See Where Mikey Madison Fits in the List of Youngest Academy Award-Winning Actors_](https://time.com/7263731/oscars-academy-award-youngest-best-actors-actresses-under-30-list/) A number of social media users quickly called out what they saw as [ironic](https://x.com/PaIIahAbdul/status/1896405289332871508) [parallels](https://x.com/eskapistarchive/status/1896412651867259124) to the theme of Moore’s film. > [](https://twitter.com/krungkrungkrazy/status/1896406671716671765) “wow demi moore getting passed up for a younger brighter star someone should make a movie about this,” [said](https://x.com/TheAlexSylvian/status/1896406691559965146) a popular post on X. “Demi Moore losing to Mikey Madison is basically the plot of the Substance,” [posted](https://x.com/PaoloUggetti/status/1896405750689550585) ESPN staff writer Paolo Uggetti. “Mikey Madison was absolutely amazing but her beating Demi Moore feels like the plot of The Substance,” [posted](https://x.com/roxystriar/status/1896405564378517915) TV personality Roxy Striar. “mikey madison winning is very pro-substance if you think about it,” [posted](https://x.com/e%5Falexjung/status/1896404928324936117) _Vulture_ writer E. Alex Jung, while writer and podcaster Joan Summers similarly [posted](https://x.com/laracroftbarbie/status/1896406777920626711): “i'm not pitting women against each other i am a working writer and not a stan in case weirdos read this: mikey winning best actress is such an interesting way to close out the demi moore press cycle for the substance. life imitates art etc.” But while many fans are disappointed that Moore, who has had decades of work reduced to “[popcorn](https://time.com/7260443/demi-moore-oscar-nomination-career/)” acting, remains Oscar-less, the actress previously told the [_New York Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/movies/demi-moore-substance-oscars.html) that she isn’t dwelling on recognition or lack of it. “Whatever happens, I just keep focusing on remembering not to make it mean too much, but also not to make it mean too little,” she said. “But I can enjoy all of it.” She also noted in the same interview that she wanted the role because it had resonated with her own career—but it wasn’t a unique experience. “Women being marginalized at a certain age, particularly in the entertainment industry,” Moore said, “is the least-new information of the entire movie.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7263726/demi-moore-substance-oscars-best-actress-academy-award-loss-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7263726/demi-moore-substance-oscars-best-actress-academy-award-loss-reactions/"},"headline":"Oscars Viewers See The Substance Parallels in Demi Moore’s Academy Award Fate","datePublished":"2025-03-03T10:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:03:26.244Z","description":"The 62-year-old Best Actress nominee who starred in a film about how society prefers younger women lost to a much younger actress.","url":"https://time.com/7263726/demi-moore-substance-oscars-best-actress-academy-award-loss-reactions/","keywords":["Oscars","overnight","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce81ff8b638317ba/6998c48fc8dcb48436b4feb4/demi-moore.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chad de Guzman","jobTitle":"Reporter","url":"https://time.com/author/chad-de-guzman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce81ff8b638317ba/6998c48fc8dcb48436b4feb4/demi-moore.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Demi Moore","caption":"Actress Demi Moore attends the 97th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif. on March 2, 2025.","creditText":"Angela Weiss—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/oscars/","name":"Oscars"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7263726/demi-moore-substance-oscars-best-actress-academy-award-loss-reactions/","name":"Oscars Viewers See The Substance Parallels in Demi Moore’s Academy Award Fate"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Biggest Moments of the 2025 Oscars","description":"Anora won five of the six awards it was nominated for including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing and Best Original Screenplay. 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