Congratulation is in order for Julianne Moore as the stunning actress took the best actress Oscar for "Still Alice."
Julianne Moore won the best actress Oscar on Sunday for her role in "Still Alice." Moore played a Columbian linguistics professor named Alice, who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease in the 2014 drama film that was directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland.
This would be Moore's first Academy Award after being nominated four times previously. Prolific in cinema since the early 1990s, Julianne Moore may have been the most high-spirited of all the Oscar winners backstage. According to Reuters, Moore was advantaged to win this year's prize after picking up Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild as well as BAFTA awards earlier this year.
"Still Alice" was adapted from a novel of the same title by Lisa Genova.
While accepting her award, the stunning actress said, "I read an article that said that winning an Oscar could lead to living five years longer," she said if that was true, she'd be like to thank the Academy as her husband is younger than her. According to TheGuardian, she beat out competition from Felicity Jones, Marion Cotillard, Rosamund Pike and Reese Witherspoon. The 54-year-old actress said, "I never imagined this," Moore added she never imagined that she would win Best Actress at Cannes in the spring and then follow it up with an Oscar for another film. The "Still Alice" star added that she keeps saying to her publicist if this is really happening. Not only that, her husband even predicted that she would win the Oscar even before the movie came out.
Moore told The Sunday Times newspaper's Culture magazine that actors have less control over their careers than what people actually think, in fact the only control an actor has is whether to say yes or no. She said sometimes many scripts may come to an actor and sometimes not so many come their way. The flame-haired beauty has been among Hollywood's most celebrated actresses for the last 20 years. Moore also won an Emmy back in 2012 for her acclaimed turn as Sarah Palin in the television movie "Game Change."
