Teyana Taylor Brushes Off Criticism About Her Behaviour At This Year's Oscars

Teyana Taylor has responded to criticism aimed her way following this year’s Oscars.

On Sunday night, the singer and actor attended the Academy Awards, where she had been nominated for the Best Supporting Actress title off the back of her performance in One Battle After Another.

At the beginning of the ceremony, this award was the first to be announced, with Teyana visibly jumping to her feet when the winner was revealed as Weapons star Amy Madigan.

Later in the night, when One Battle After Another was announced as the recipient of the Best Picture prize, Teyana was seen celebrating with director Paul Thomas Anderson, even jokingly putting him in a headlock on their way up to the stage.

Following the ceremony, one critic on X questioned “WTF” was “going on with Teyana”, accusing her of “wildin’ at the Oscars”, while another claimed that they “knew from the first hour something was off” with her.

Teyana reacted on Monday night, lamenting to her X followers: “The world holds so much misery that miserable hearts forget the face of happiness. They grow comfortable being sore losers, so when they see real sportsmanship it unsettles them! Like holy water touching a demon.

“Because clapping for someone else’s victory requires something many people never learned… how to win with grace and pure joy, and how to lose with grace, chin up and dignity.”

Asked about the headlock moment by Variety, Teyana also claimed: “What’s crazy is we kind of took it back to [the] Critics’ Choice [awards] when I told him, ‘listen, if you get that Best Picture, I’m telling you now, we’re going to get you a helmet’. Because I’m such a sports girl, so I’m just like ‘yeeeeeeeah!’.

“It’s our little inside joke – so he already knew the headlock was coming. He knew the headlock was coming.”

Back in January, Teyana won a Golden Globe for her work in One Battle After Another, and was also nominated for a Bafta, an Actor Award (previously known as a SAG Award) and Critics’ Choice Award.

One Battle After Another was the big winner at this year’s Oscars, triumphing in six categories overall, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and the inaugural Best Casting prize.

Sean Penn also scooped Best Supporting Actor, marking his third Oscar win, but he did not attend the ceremony to accept it.