Greta Lee is ready for her Oscars close-up.
The actor made her Academy Awards debut today at Los Angeles’s Dolby Theatre. For the prestigious ceremony, she showed up in an incredible black velvet halterneck gown by Loewe. The dress had gauzy white strips of fabric draped across her neck and down her back, attached to the front of her hips.
She accessorized with diamond-encrusted paper-clip earrings, as well as an array of even more diamond jewelry.
Past Lives—Celine Song’s directorial debut, in which Lee starred alongside Teo Yoo and John Magaro—is nominated tonight for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Many lambasted the Academy for snubbing Lee, whose moving performance as Nora, a playwright who immigrated from Korea to North America, did not receive a nod for Actress in a Leading Role.
Lee talked about the life-changing effect the role had on her life and career in an interview for Harper’s Bazaar’s September 2023 Icons issue.
“I’ve always felt like with acting, I’m not entitled to anything. I do think this is the kind of job where you’re not entitled to anything, truly, no matter who you are. But it became impossible for me to not think about the way I was supporting what kinds of stories were being told and in what way,” she said. “[Playing Nora in Past Lives] was totally different because of certain experiences that I had. And because I wanted to acknowledge: Okay, I’ve been living in service of certain ideas—the status quo—trying to explain myself constantly and create a palatable narrative of what I am. And I don’t want to do that. I can see how harmful that is for me to passively engage in all of this, just because that’s what I was expected to do. So I really took all that to heart. In entering this job, it did feel completely different.”
