Oscars 2023: Why was Morgan Freeman wearing a single glove?

Oscar viewers noticed Morgan Freeman wearing a single glove during Sunday’s (12 March) ceremony.

The Shawshank Redemption star introduced a sizzle reel for Warner Bros’ 100th birthday alongside Margot Robbie at the 95th Academy Awards.

Freeman took to the stage wearing a black glove on his left hand, leaving some fans confused.

The 85-year-old actor previously revealed that his left hand was paralysed after a serious car accident in 2008.

Freeman had to be cut out of his vehicle by emergency workers and was airlifted to hospital after his vehicle flipped multiple times on a Mississippi highway.

“They had to use the jaws of life [hydraulic cutters] to extract him from the vehicle,” a local newspaper editor told The Guardian at the time. “He was lucid, conscious. He was talking, joking with some of the rescue workers at one point.”

As a result, Freeman has to wear a compression glove to keep the blood flowing in his left hand.

“I suffered nerve damage and it hasn’t gotten better. I can’t move it,” he told People in 2010.

“If you don’t move your hand, it will swell up. Do you know you move your hand about a million times a day?”

He also told Esquire that the condition causes pain “up and down the arm. That’s where it gets so bad. Excruciating”.

Find the full list of 2023 Oscar winners here.