Wunmi Mosaku makes her Oscars debut in sparkling Louis Vuitton
“This is the moment that I have worked 20 years towards,” Wunmi Mosaku says of her role in Sinners. “This film just really made me stop focusing on what I had lost, and actually see what we have retained.”
Nominated this evening for Best Supporting Actress, Mosaku arrived at the Academy Awards wearing an emerald green Louis Vuitton dress, which featured a cutout on her shoulder, paired with David Yurman jewelry. Her nomination is one of the film’s record-breaking 16 nods this evening, the most for any movie in Oscars history.
Mosaku poses with her baby bump.
A closer look at her earrings.
“She loves color,” says her stylist Shameelah Hicks of Mosaku’s red carpet looks. So in choosing their Oscars night outfit, it was “making sure there’s color involved, and making sure it’s vibrant.”
Mosaku on the red carpet.
After her win at the BAFTAs, Mosaku spoke about her relationship with her character, Annie. “I found a part of myself in Annie, a part of my hopes, my ancestral power and connection,” she said in her acceptance speech. “Parts of myself I thought I’d lost or tried to dim as an immigrant trying to fit in. To her, I deepened my belief in my potential and capacity to love and hope in the darkest moments of grief and in the face of this harsh world.”
Mosaku is currently expecting her second child with her husband, talent manager Tash Moseley, but she walked the Oscars carpet solo. At the BAFTAs, she spoke about their first child. “To my daughter. You are my greatest teacher. I am most proud of you,” she said in her acceptance speech. “Everything begins and ends with you.”
