Demi Moore is giving Mikey Madison her flowers!
After Moore’s reaction went viral when she lost in the category Best Actress at the 97th annual Academy Awards on Sunday — her first Oscar nomination in her four-decades-long career — to the 25-year-old “Anora” star, Demi, 62, stepped up to sing Madison’s praises.
“The Substance” actress was the frontrunner for the Oscar after she swept award season with a Golden Globe, a Critics Choice win, and a SAG victory for her role as Elisabeth Sparkle, a TV superstar whose career falls in the toilet after she turns 50 — until she finds a magic drug that turns her into a younger version of herself, but comes with major side effects.
Sharing a video of her Oscars-day prep on Instagram Monday, Moore shared that she was “so overwhelmed with gratitude for this journey.”
“It’s been the ride of a lifetime and we’re just getting started,” she continued, while thanking her team, the movie’s cast and crew, as well as “my fellow nominees, and everyone who has made this experience so full of joy and light.”
That’s when she turned the focus on Madison, who shockingly swooped in on what many considered to be Moore’s Best Actress Oscar win.
“And a huge congratulations to #MikeyMadison,” Moore concluded. “Can’t wait to see what you do next.”
Madison was just as shocked as everyone else when her name was announced as the Best Actress winner during Sunday’s star-studded show at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, beating out Moore, Karla Sofia Gascón, Cynthia Erivo and Fernanda Torres.
In “Anora,” Madison plays a sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch. Once his family gets word of the marriage, they go to great lengths to try and get it annulled. Besides the actress’ big win, the Sean Baker-directed flick scored four other Academy Awards.
Madison called the victory “a dream come true.”
Moore sat in the front row and appeared to grit her teeth when her name was not called. Looking visibly upset, the “Ghost” actress continued to clap as Madison made her way to the stage while muttering one word.
Professional lip reader Nicola Hickling weighed in on her response.
“Demi says ‘nice’ but she isn’t smiling when she says it,” she told the Daily Mail. “Her body is almost nodding like she had to force herself to say it.”
Fans were floored with the outcome, even commenting on Moore’s recent post, “You were robbed” and “You were the real winner.”
They weren’t the only ones who thought Moore had cinched the Oscar.
Her “Substance” co-star Dennis Quaid exclusively told The Post that he was confident in her Best Actress victory.
“I knew it like my second day working on that movie. I told Demi she’s going to win an Oscar for it,” the actor said just days before the upset.
While Moore doesn’t appear sour about her Academy Award loss, she did reveal what being honored for the role has meant to her.
“I really wasn’t expecting that. I’m just in shock right now. I’ve been doing this a long time, like, over 45 years, and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor, and I’m just so humbled and so grateful,” Moore said during her Golden Globes acceptance speech in January.
“Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a ‘popcorn actress,’” she confessed. “And at that time, I made that mean that this wasn’t something that I was allowed to have. That could do movies that were successful that made a lot of money, but that I couldn’t be acknowledged.”
Moore concluded her heartfelt speech with some words of wisdom.
“In those moments when we don’t think we’re smart enough or pretty enough or skinny enough or successful enough or basically just not enough—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.”
