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Oprah Winfrey is one of those people who appear to have a magnetism that resonates with nearly everyone. When late night show host Jimmy Kimmel met her for the first time, he would later reveal in an interview that he finally understood all the hype around her.
“I love her! I really do… I get it now,” he said. “I used to think [people] were being phony, but I feel the same way now. It’s hard to describe, but honestly, Oprah is an inspiring person.”
That is not to say that the billionaire TV personality and mogul is not without her naysayers. Fellow media royalty Howard Stern is one who has particularly never shied away from speaking out his mind on Oprah. The host of The Howard Stern show admits he has some respect for her, but at the same time, thinks that she is overrated. Suffice to say a personal relationship between the pair is non-existent.
A-list actor Tom Cruise is another one who has publicly expressed displeasure towards Oprah. The Mission Impossible star was interviewed by her in 2005, but later expressed disappointment at the way the conversation was edited. He said he felt that she had set him up to make him look bad.
Other celebrities who have had some kind of issue with Oprah include Hugh Grant, David Letterman and Kid Rock, among others. Yet none can seemingly come close to the beef between her and Anjelica Huston.
Anjelica Huston Beat Oprah Winfrey To An Academy Award
Anjelica Huston and Oprah Winfrey came head to head for an Oscar at the 58th annual Academy Awards in 1986. They were up for the accolade “Best Supporting Actress,” with the other nominees being Meg Tilly for Agnes of God, Amy Madigan for Twice in a Lifetime and Margaret Avery for The Color Purple.
Oprah herself had starred alongside Avery in the Steven Spielberg classic, which was adapted from Alice Walker’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel of the same name from 1982. She featured in the film as the character Sofia Johnson, described as a “large, fiercely independent woman who befriends Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) and marries [Celie’s son] Harpo (Willard Pugh). She refuses to submit to anyone who tries to dominate her.”
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Huston’s nomination was for her portrayal of Maerose Prizzi in her father’s black comedy film Prizzi’s Honor. The film was nominated for a total of eight awards at the Oscars, but it was only Huston who got to walk away with the gong for “Best Supporting Actress.” And so the feud between her and Oprah was born.
Have Anjelica Huston And Oprah Winfrey Ever Met?
Anjelica Huston and Oprah Winfrey were not close even before the 1986 Oscars, but the turn of events that year killed any chance that might have ever existed of the pair becoming friends. The John Wick star spoke about the one time they met in person, and claimed that Oprah had been overtly cold towards her.
“She never had me on her show, ever. She won’t talk to me,” Huston told Vulture Magazine in May 2019. “The only encounter I’ve had with Oprah was when I was at a party for the Academy Awards, [at] a private residence. I was talking to Clint Eastwood, and she literally came between us with her back to me. So all of the sudden I was confronted with the back of Oprah’s head.”
Huston expressed bewilderment at Oprah’s reported behavior, and argued it could only be because she beat her to the Oscar. “Nobody else would dislike me so much as to literally, physically come in between the person I was talking with that way,” she insisted.
What Really Went Down At The 1986 Oscars Event?
Anjelica Huston is convinced that Oprah Winfrey could not stand the fact that she had beaten her to the Academy Award. On her part, Oprah insists that she had other things occupying her mind. In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in February 2012, she explained that a wardrobe malfunction made that night one of the worst of her entire life. She also insisted that it was all she could think about.
“When I went to the Oscars, it was one of the most horrible nights of my life,” Oprah told Kimmel, per Access Online. “I had used Dolly Parton’s dressmaker. And he’d come over to [do] some fitting earlier in the day and then said, ‘I need to take it back.’ When he brought it back, I didn’t try it on. So when I went to put it on half an hour before going to the Oscars, it didn’t fit.”
The experience was apparently so uncomfortable for Oprah, that she spent the evening wishing that she lost the Oscar. If her version of events were to be believed, it would disqualify Anjelica Huston’s argument that the OWN network executive was salty for losing out.
