{"id":823562,"date":"2026-11-04T05:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/823562\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T05:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:34:11","slug":"cher-responds-after-michael-douglas-disses-oscar-win-for-moonstruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/823562\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher Responds After Michael Douglas Disses Oscar Win for ‘Moonstruck’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCher<\/a> is responding with grace to Michael Douglas<\/a>\u2018 viral diss<\/a> over her 1988 Oscar win for \u201cMoonstruck.\u201d A representative for the music and acting icon told Entertainment Weekly<\/a> point blank: \u201cCher adores Michael Douglas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the 60th Academy Awards in April 1988, Cher took home the prize for best actress over Douglas\u2019 \u201cFatal Attraction<\/a>\u201d co-star Glenn Close<\/a>. Douglas still disagrees with the Academy\u2019s decision nearly 40 years later. Appearing alongside Close on a recent episode of \u201cThe Graham Norton Show,\u201d Douglas noted that \u201cshe should have won [the Oscar] with \u2018Fatal Attraction’\u201d and that Close \u201cwas nominated, I believe, [for] her fourth\u201d Oscar by that time. When the actor noted Cher won the Oscar instead, Norton responded, \u201cOh wow,\u201d prompting Douglas to diss Cher: \u201cI know, that\u2019s what we all said!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMichael, be kind,\u201d Close then responded while turning to Douglas as the studio audience laughed. <\/p>\n

\n\tAll three actors attended the 1988 Oscars as nominees, with Cher winning best actress for \u201cMoonstruck\u201d and Douglas winning best actor for his role in Oliver Stone\u2019s \u201cWall Street.\u201d Douglas was the sole nominee for his movie, while \u201cMoonstruck\u201d was up for six awards, including best picture. The romantic comedy also won Oscars for adapted screenplay and supporting actress (Olympia Dukakis). \u201cFatal Attraction,\u201d meanwhile, was also nominated for six Oscars but went home empty handed. Both movies battled for best picture and best director but lost to \u201cThe Last Emperor\u201d and Bernardo Bertolucci, respectively. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs noted by Douglas, Close went into the 1988 Oscars as a four-time Oscar nominee. She had previously earned three nominations in the best supporting actress category for \u201cThe World According to Garp,\u201d \u201cThe Big Chill\u201d and \u201cThe Natural.\u201d \u201cFatal Attraction\u201d marked Close\u2019s first best actress nomination. She would go on to be nominated at the Oscars four more times for \u201cDangerous Liaisons,\u201d \u201cAlbert Nobbs,\u201d \u201cThe Wife\u201d and \u201cHillbilly Elegy.\u201d She has yet to win a competitive Oscar but will be awarded an honorary statue at the Governors Awards this month.<\/p>\n

\n\tCher, meanwhile, won the Oscar for \u201cMoonstruck\u201d after previously picking up a nomination for best supporting actress in 1984 for \u201cSilkwood.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cher is responding with grace to Michael Douglas\u2018 viral diss over her 1988 Oscar win for \u201cMoonstruck.\u201d A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,1804,96,270193,102516,19635,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-823562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-cher","tag-entertainment","tag-fatal-attraction","tag-glenn-close","tag-michael-douglas","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}