Demi Moore has the advantage
Ahead of the 2025 Oscar Awards, the Best Actress category witnessed a dramatic race between Demi Moore and Mikey Madison - beauties from two generations.
From 2024 to now, Demi Moore and her junior, 37 years younger, have had a "chase" for achievements, because they have received nominations at major awards ceremonies.
To date, Demi Moore's opportunity has been more open as she has just won the SAG ( Screen Actors Guild Awards) Best Actress - one of the prestigious awards, which has repeatedly predicted the winner of the Oscar.
In addition, Demi Moore also won the Best Actress award at the Golden Globe Awards and at several other awards ceremonies this year. She only lost to Mikey Madison at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA).
Although not every year that SAG accurately predicts the actress to win an Oscar, this award has been chosen accurately 9 times over the past 12 years.
According to Screen Rant, Demi Moore's nomination for the Oscar for the first time in more than 40 years of work is also a factor that the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences is considering awarding him for his veteran acting star.
However, Mikey's BAFTA victory is also a weighty achievement, proving that she is not overwhelmed in the race for Best Actress at the Oscars.
"Mikey Madison has accumulated many awards and been highly appreciated, but losing to Moore at major awards such as the Golden Globe, SAG and Critics Choice has reduced her ability to win an Oscar," Screen Rant commented.
Impressive performance of the year
With "The Substance" (Vietnamese title: Pharmacy), Demi Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, an out-of- date A-list star who has become a TV fitness coach. After being chased out because she was over 50 years old, she sank in despair and felt hated by herself.
After that, Elisabeth came to a mysterious drug and gave birth to a younger version, named Sue (Margaret Qualley). They take turns living together, but Sue is greedy and wants to take Lisabeth's life.
Demi Moore has a haunting transformation when expressing the feelings of a star suffering from a fading or even more, hurt every time he looks at his reflection and sees each poster taken off.
Her character does not have many lines, even many nudes, but shows her struggling inner thoughts, longing to return to her youth. The film immediately became a phenomenon when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last May.
Critic Sasha Stone commented: "Demi Moore is not really playing a character but she is exploiting a darker side of herself, and of every woman. She can win the Oscar for her seniority in the profession, her courage in doing bad things to herself, and exposing her entire body despite her flaws."
Regarding Mikey Madison's role as Anora, Sasha Stone affirmed that it was the performance of the year. "Anora of Madison is an attractive character because the actress has a face that always struggles with sadness, even when she's not sad. She has a humorous smile and a voice that reminds us of Marilyn Monroe.
First, viewers met her in the version of the street dancer named Ani, the beauty that captivated men in the nightclub. And then there is the real Anora, a complete contrast to Ani," the critic said.
To date, the winner of the Best Actress category at the 2025 Oscar is still unpredictable. The results will be revealed on March 2, 2025 (morning of March 3, Vietnam time).
