Oscars audience reacts to surprise Eminem performance: A gallery of shock and awe
Eminem took the stage at the 92nd Academy Awards and surprised everyone when he started rapping “Lose Yourself,” 17 years after he won his own Academy Award for the “8 Mile” track — and the audience was full of shock and awe.
Martin Scorsese looked unimpressed, Idina Menzel was confused and Brie Larson was having the best time.
Marshall Mathers took to Twitter to thank the Academy for letting him do his thing — since couldn’t make it to the 2003 ceremony where he received his award. He has since explained why he didn’t go — in part because he thought he wouldn’t win. Read more about that here.
“Look, if you had another shot, another opportunity… Thanks for having me @TheAcademy,” he tweeted. “Sorry it took me 18 years to get here.”
His performance received a standing ovation.
Clowns on Twitter are posting reaction pictures of people apparently being "confused" about Eminem performing at the #Oscars. That's not what happened though. They was loving it. Only legends get this level of respect: Watch below! #eminempic.twitter.com/YHnmFa1JdO
— Trevor Gordon (@TrevorGordon) February 10, 2020
Eminem dropped his last few studio albums by surprise. The latest, “Music to Be Murdered By,” came out on Jan. 17 with no pre-promotion.
Martin Scorsese during Eminem’s performance. #Oscar2020 pic.twitter.com/5Qb12mLwPq
— Chriss (@Easy2Sayy) February 10, 2020
See below for the best reactions.
Eminem on the #Oscars , a reaction thread. pic.twitter.com/dmOP53XyjJ
— 𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝙺. 𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚗 (@andriakbrown) February 10, 2020
Marico ese canción de Eminem es un himno. #Oscarspic.twitter.com/cgRNg68ZIw
— ⚕Dr (@Adiinson) February 10, 2020
Idina Menzel being all of us when Eminem came up through the floor. pic.twitter.com/oWh7Pp2FoW
— Mick Côté (@MickCote) February 10, 2020
Some of the #Oscars crowd was super into that surprise Eminem performance. https://t.co/8kz7m5vtnF#Oscarspic.twitter.com/GMcLHMyz00
— ABC News (@ABC) February 10, 2020
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