Emma Stone is a renowned actress who has won the hearts of audiences and critics with her performances over the years. One of the favorite films of this Oscar was “Poor Creatures” (2023), winner in four of the 11 categories in which it was nominated. And Emma Stone took the Oscar for Best Actress for her work as Bella Baxter.
Emma Stone won the category, which was the most competitive of the night, with four other top actresses: Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”) and Annete Bening (“NYAD”). Gladstone, Stone and Hüller were the big favorites. Let’s get to know more about this magnificent actress?
Who is Emma Stone?
Born on November 6, 1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona, with the name Emily Jean Stone, she adopted the stage name “Emma Stone” when she began her career in the entertainment world.
She began her career as an actress as a child, in plays. During her teenage years, she moved with her family to Los Angeles and landed her first TV role in “The Partridge Family” (2004), at the age of 15.
“Zombieland”
Five years later, at the age of 20, she became widely recognized for her role in “Zombieland” (2009), a film that opened the door to the extensive acquisition of awards that the actress has already received.
Stone’s handling of her character in “Zombieland” was the impetus for director Will Gluck to cast her in the romantic teen comedy Easy A (2010). For her work in the production, at the age of 21 Emma Stone was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress on the Rise and a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. She didn’t win either award, but was one of the youngest actresses to be nominated at the time.
“Crossed Stories”
A year later, Stone faced one of her biggest drama roles head-on. In “Crossed Stories” (2011), she took on the character of Skeeter, an American journalist who questions the racism experienced by domestic workers in the 1960s, a year in which the presence of black people in environments was still seen as very segregated – including exclusive spaces for white and black people, such as toilets, transportation, etc. “Crossed Stories” was nominated for four Oscar categories, including Best Picture. It only took home one statuette, that of Best Supporting Actress, with Octavia Spenncer.
First nomination
With her career already established in comedy and off to a good start in drama, the doors were opening for Emma Stone to emerge from an actress focused on teen romantic comedies and establish herself as a great artist and a big name in Hollywood. Her first Oscar nomination came for “Birdman” (2014), a film that won best picture of the year and received four statuettes in 2015, out of the nine categories in which it was nominated. Stone competed for Best Supporting Actress, but lost the award to Patricia Arquette, who played Olivia Evans in “Boyhood” (2014).
First Oscar
After touching the Academy’s statuette in 2015, but not taking it home, in 2017 it was finally her turn: Emma Stone took the Best Actress award for “La La Land” (2016), a classic musical of a romance story, very much focused on portraying Hollywood. The film was nominated for 14 Oscar categories and won six of them.
The year after “La La Land”, Emma Stone outdid herself once again with “The Favourite”, the reunion between the actress and Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos – the same duo that made up the cast of “Poor Creatures”. The film was nominated for 1o Oscar categories, but only won one, Best Actress, for Olivia Colman. Emma Stone was nominated for Best Supporting Actress and lost out to Regina King.
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