Lupita Nyong'o, the stunning, ever-smiling Kenyan actress, won the Oscar for best supporting actress on Sunday, March 2, 2014. Nyong'o beat known Hollywood favorites in her category, like Jennifer Lawrence and Julia Roberts, to win the award for her astonishing role as the hardworking slave, Patsey, in Steve McQueen's drama,
Twelve Years a Slave. The thunderous standing ovation she received from the audience was particularly heartwarming given that Patsey was her first feature film role.
The graduate of Yale Drama School's win at the 86th Academy Awards follows her taking the same awards at the Screen Actors Guild and the Broadcast Film Critics Assn. awards earlier in the year as well as receiving accolades from critics in Africa, Europe and North America.
The award, Reuters said, "marks Nyong'o's coronation into the top echelon of dramatic actresses working in Hollywood. She has also burnished her image as a new emblem of high fashion with her styles on the red carpet."
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