The star almost took a tumble (Picture: Shutterstock/AP)
Elizabeth Banks rushed onto the stage with a touch too much enthusiasm at the 2023 Oscars on Sunday night, tripping up on her way to the podium.
The 49-year-old filmmaker and actress was on hand to present the award for best visual effects but tripped as she took to the stage.
However, despite heels and a voluminous gown, she luckily quickly managed to steady herself, making it more of a blink and you’ll miss it moment.
The actress then jokingly styled it out by taking a succession of slow pantomime steps as she grinned at the audience before making it to the podium in one piece.
Joined by a person wearing a bear costume in reference to her recent film Cocaine Bear, she quipped: ‘Oh my God. He tripped me.’
She the pointed out that his was pretty much what she would have been left with – a man in a bear suit, ‘probably on cocaine’ – if she didn’t have the magic of VFX available to her for the movie.
Her quick walk onto the stage almost spelled disaster (Picture: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
However, Elizabeth was able to style it out (Picture: Rob Latour/Shutterstock)
She managed to right herself despite the heels and gown (Picture: Rob Latour/Shutterstock)
Elizabeth also appeared to be struggling with her voice during the introduction, sounding strained and rasping as though she had either lost or was a little under the weather.
At one point, she acknowledged and apologised for her scratchy voice, but didn’t give any further details.
The award, unsurprisingly, went to the team for Avatar: The Way of Water for their groundbreaking VFX on the James Cameron-helmed sequel.
The Way of Water is now officially the third-highest grossing film of all time, clearing the way for the team to get cracking on films four and five following the third, which is already in post-production.
She joked that the bear had tripped her, in a nod to Cocaine Bear (Picture: EPA)
Talking to Metro.co.uk on the red carpet at the Baftas last month, the team teased a few details of what could be expected in the later movies.
As Joe Letteri claimed ‘You know more about it than we do!’, Eric Saindon joked: ‘We know there’s going to be blue people,’ before confirming details of the new ‘evil’ fire tribe, which Cameron first mentioned when saying the next film would show the Na’vi ‘from another angle’.
Oscar nominations 2023
Here are the nominations for the 95th Oscar Awards:
Best motion picture of the year
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Austin Butler in Elvis
Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser in The Whale
Paul Mescal in Aftersun
Bill Nighy in Living
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway
Judd Hirsch in The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett in Tár
Ana de Armas in Blonde
Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie
Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau in The Whale
Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
Applause from Tell It like a Woman, Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
Hold My Hand from “Top Gun: Maverick, Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
Naatu Naatu from RRR, Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose
This Is A Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once, Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne
Achievement in directing
The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg
Tár – Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund
Best animated feature film of the year
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red
Achievement in cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár
Achievement in costume design
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Best documentary feature
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalnys
Best documentary short subject
The Elephant Whisperers
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year?
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Stranger at the Gate
Achievement in film editing
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Best international feature film of the year
All Quiet on the Western Front – Germany
Argentina, 1985 – Argentina
Close – Belgium
EO – Poland
The Quiet Girl – Ireland
Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”Elvis
The Whale
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
All Quiet on the Western Front – Volker Bertelmann
Babylon – Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin – Carter Burwell
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Son Lux
The Fabelmans – John Williams
Achievement in production design
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Best animated short film
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Flying Sailor
Ice Merchants
My Year of Dicks
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Best live action short film
An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase
Achievement in sound
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick
Achievement in visual effects
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick
Adapted screenplay
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking
Original screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Triangle of Sadness
‘Yes [Cameron] has said that. Oona Chaplin’s character. We’ll see when we get started – well, we are started!’
Letteri continued: ‘There’s some pretty terrific scenes in there, actually. Something to look forward to.’
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After spending five years on the sequel, the VFX team confirmed that Avatar 3 is ‘a little shorter timeframe’.
‘A lot of the development that took place for Way of Water will obviously be used in the following films,’ verified Daniel Barrett.
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She was also struggling with her voice.