'Beyond my wildest dreams': New Mexico native Demi Moore receives first Oscar nomination

She got the Golden Globe. Will the Midas touch continue with an Oscar?

Demi Moore is among the five nominees for best actress announced Thursday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — the first Academy Award nomination of the 62-year-old actress and Roswell native’s career. She is nominated for her role in the body horror film “The Substance.”

“Being nominated for an Oscar is an incredible honor and these last few months have been beyond my wildest dreams,” Moore said in a statement. “Truly there are no words to fully express my joy and overwhelming gratitude for this recognition. Not only for me but for what this film represents. I am deeply humbled.”

The actor picked up a Golden Globe — her first major career award — for her role in “The Substance” earlier this month. Moore’s Golden Globe win for best actress in a musical or comedy has given her momentum and she is considered a serious contender for the Oscar.

“The Substance,” written, directed, co-edited and co-produced by Coralie Fargeat, follows a fading celebrity, Elisabeth Sparkle — played by Moore — who after being fired due to her age by her producer — played by Dennis Quaid — uses a black market drug that creates a much younger version of herself — played by Margaret Qualley — with unexpected side effects.

Moore has been in the limelight since the mid-1980s and early 1990s with her work in movies including “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “Ghost,” “A Few Good Men,” “Indecent Proposal,” “The Scarlet Letter” and “G.I. Jane” — even becoming the highest-paid actress in the mid-1990s. She was paid $12.5 million for 1996’s “Striptease.”

Moore was born in Roswell and lived there until her teen years before moving to Los Angeles, where her career began in the 1980s.

In the 2025 Academy Awards, she will be up against Cynthia Erivo for “Wicked,” Karla Sofía Gascón for “Emilia Pérez,” Mikey Madison for “Anora” and Fernanda Torres, who took home the Golden Globe for actress in a drama motion picture, for “I’m Still Here.”

The 97th Academy Awards will air March 2 on ABC.