Off The Record
A Lip Reader Reveals Whoopi Goldberg Three-Word Response When Demi Moore Asked For A Picture At The Oscars
With fans finally witnessing the reunion of former Ghost co-stars Whoopi Goldberg and Demi Moore, this year’s Oscars seemed like a massive throwback.
Fans of the two-time Oscar winner are thrilled about the possibility of a sequel after witnessing the couple embrace on the 97th Academy Awards red carpet last night (March 2), as it has been 35 years since they first appeared together on screen for the paranormal romance flick.
However, as 62-year-old Moore went up to her 69-year-old former coworker, a lip reader shared their thoughts on their conversation as well as Goldberg’s rather scathing three-word reaction when requested for a picture.
It started when Oscar nominee Moore was strolling down the red carpet and then saw Goldberg, a previous Academy Award winner, speaking to reporters. ‘How are you?’ she addressed her former co-star as she halted in her tracks.
All of it was fairly audible; I’ll let NJ Hickling, a skilled lip reader, explain the remainder of the exchange.
Speaking with The Mirror US, he theorised that Goldberg told Moore: “I’m fine.”
Moore then appears to ask again: “How are you?”
Following their conversation, Moore offers that “let’s get a photo,” as Hickling explains.
In response, Goldberg said, “Together, I’d like to.”
Then Moore says, “Let’s stand back.”
That’s when Goldberg apparently gave her blunt three-word reply, as she refused saying: “I don’t pose.”
After giving Goldberg a shoulder rub, Moore responds, “That’s okay.”
Fans expressed their joy upon seeing the two together once more on Twitter, with most pointing out that they haven’t aged in 35 years.
“Whoopie looked so wonderful, and even Demi did too glad for them to reunite,” a user commented.
A second typed: “Both have barely aged. I also wonder how any gen z folks know what this movie is/was.”
“Cultural moment right here,” said a third.
A fourth word was typed: “Aging like fine wine.”
And they weren’t the only people who liked the two.
Someone else commented: “Love it! A genuine and heart warming moment!”
Another added: “The reunion I needed to see. I love Ghost and I believe that Oscar is Demi’s.”
“One of my favorite movies, we need a sequel,” typed one user.
Unfortunately for Moore, the evening didn’t go as planned since Anora’s 25-year-old lead, Mikey Madison, won best actress, even though Moore was the bookmaker’s favorite for her performance in The Substance, which was only her maiden nomination.
The biggest Oscars snubs ever
Citizen Kane loses to How Green Was My Valley (1942)
Despite dominating BFI’s Sight & Sound survey of the greatest movies produced in the past four decades, Orson Welles’ epic story of the ascent and decline of a media tycoon was reportedly not enough to win an Academy Award.
Rather, the award went to How Green Was My Valley, which, it’s safe to say, hasn’t held up as well over time.
To make matters worse, the audience jeered Welles whenever his name was called, and he had a falling out with the Academy before the ceremony.
Despite receiving nine Academy Award nominations, Citizen Kane only won the Best Original Screenplay trophy.
E.T. loses to Gandhi (1983)
Even Richard Attenborough, whose Gandhi drama won Best Picture, believed that Steven Spielberg’s E.T. deserved to have taken home the prize.
He is quoted in Joseph McBride’s Steven Spielberg: A Biography as saying of the moment his win was announced: “I didn’t go to the podium, I went over to Spielberg. He got up, I put my arms round him, and I said, ‘This isn’t right, this should be yours’.”
After its 1982 premiere, Spielberg’s story of the relationship between a lonely child and a terrifying-looking extraterrestrial continues to be one of the most cherished movies ever made, completely controlling the box office.
The Shawshank Redemption loses to Forrest Gump (1995)
The Shawshank Redemption continues to top IMDb’s 250 highest rated list and is frequently considered as one of the best films of all time, despite the fact that both of these films are essentially universally loved.
The Shawshank Redemption was a box office failure and was greatly eclipsed by Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction in the year of its release, yet it is very strange in retrospect that the movie did not win any of the seven Oscars for which it was nominated.
Still, one Reddit user acknowledged that they were “blown away to find out that the movie didn’t win a single Academy Award.”
Saving Private Ryan loses to Shakespeare in Love (1999)
Shakespeare in Love, a romantic comedy, defeated Steven Spielberg’s epic World War Two drama in yet another upset.
This has since been attributed to the evil schemes of Harvey Weinstein, who, according to Den of Geek, launched a “whisper campaign” asserting that the first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan were the only enjoyable portion of the film and that the next twenty minutes were “sentimental hokum.”
When he was urged to fight back against Weinstein’s bullish advertising techniques, DreamWorks marketer Terry Press remembers Spielberg telling him, “I do not want to get down in the mud with Harvey.”
Brokeback Mountain loses to Crash (2000)
Another shocking Best Picture upset occurred the following year when the universally despised film Crash defeated Brokeback Mountain.
It was dubbed “the greatest robbery of all time” by a Reddit user.
In a 2024 interview with Deadline, director Ang Lee asserted that the Academy at the time “had a ceiling” on support for his heartbreaking gay love story.
He even recalls being told to stay in the wings of the stage in-between his Best Director win and the announcement of Best Picture, being told by a stage manager: “Everybody assumes you will win.”
Many moviegoers are obviously still upset about this one; one even called Crash’s victory “absolutely criminal.”
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