{"id":331827,"date":"2026-03-16T05:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331827\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T05:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:33:10","slug":"amy-madigan-wins-best-supporting-actress-oscar-for-weapons-oscars-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331827\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Madigan wins best supporting actress Oscar for Weapons | Oscars 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy Madigan has won the best supporting actress Oscar for Weapons at the 98th Academy Awards,.<\/p>\n

Madigan defeated a strong field to take the prize, including Elle Fanning for Sentimental Value, Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners and Teyana Taylor for One Battle After Another. In doing so she set a new record for the longest gap between nominations before a win; she was previously nominated in the same category 40 years ago, in 1986, for Twice in a Lifetime.<\/p>\n

In an emotional and good-humoured speech, the actor said that she had been asked about the difference between the two nominations, saying: \u201cWhat\u2019s different is I got this little gold guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Weapons, a supernatural horror film written and directed by Zach Cregger, Madigan plays the malevolent Aunt Gladys, whose heavy makeup and large glasses became a popular internet meme, referenced by Oscars<\/a> host Conan O\u2019Brien in his opening skit.<\/p>\n

Madigan has had a strong awards season, gaining a best supporting actress nomination from the Golden Globes, and winning the Actor award<\/a> earlier this month, yet her victory was far from certain, with Mosaku perceived to present especially strong competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is great,\u201d she said. \u201cI was in the shower last night trying to think of something to say as I was shaving my legs \u2013 I\u2019ve got pants on, I don\u2019t need to worry about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor went on to thank her fellow nominees for bringing her into their fold, as \u2013 unlike them \u2013 she was the sole figure representing Weapons on the press circuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of all, I want to thank my beautiful daughter, Lily,\u201d she concluded, \u201cher husband, Sean. And, of course, all the dogs. But the most important is my beloved Ed. You\u2019ve been with me forever. And that\u2019s a long-ass time, and none of this would mean anything if he wasn\u2019t by my side.\u201d<\/p>\n

Madigan and her husband, Ed Harris, went down in the annals of Academy Award history in 1999, when they conspicuously failed to applaud the awarding of an honorary Oscar to On the Waterfront\u2019s Elia Kazan, who testified at the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amy Madigan has won the best supporting actress Oscar for Weapons at the 98th Academy Awards,. Madigan defeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-331827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}