| Name | Emma Stone |
| Age | 35 years |
| Born | November 6, 1988 |
| Height | 1.68 m |
| Networth | $40 million |
| country | American |
Emma Stone might clinch a second Oscar for Best Actress with “Poor Creatures.” At just 35 years old, her career is already firmly established.
Since the announcement of the 2024 Oscar nominations, predictions have been buzzing, with one category garnering significant attention. Emma Stone, Lily Gladstone, Sandra Hüller, Carey Mulligan, and Annette Bening are all vying for the Best Actress Oscar award this Sunday, March 11, in Los Angeles. However, it seems some moviegoers perceive it as a competition between the first two alone.
Emma Stone and Lily Gladstone are considered front-runners for their roles in “Poor Creatures” and “Killers of the Flower Moon,” respectively. For Lily Gladstone, a win would mark a historic moment as the first Native American actress to claim the Oscar. On social media, some viewers are rallying behind her victory to the extent of criticizing Emma Stone.
They argue that the actress, already crowned Best Actress in 2017 for “La La Land,” “doesn’t need a second Oscar” and “doesn’t deserve” her nomination. However, her career choices suggest otherwise.
At just 35 years old, Emma Stone has solidified her status as one of the finest actresses of her generation. After the Oscars ceremony on Sunday, March 11, HuffPost takes a retrospective look at her promising and captivating career, featuring a video montage at the top of the article.
Emma Stone’s comedy debut
Like many actors, Emma Stone didn’t start with Oscar-worthy films. She made her film debut in the teen movie “Superbad” in 2007 and then appeared in various schoolboy and romantic comedies, such as “Zombieland” and “The House Bunny.”
She began gaining recognition with the lead role in “Easy A” in 2010, where she portrayed a high school student who becomes popular after pretending to have lost her virginity. However, it was her role alongside Ryan Gosling in “Crazy, Stupid, Love” that propelled her to international fame.
Following this success, Emma Stone transitioned to more dramatic films like “The Help,” adapted from the novel about racial segregation in the 1960s. This role showcased her commitment and maturity, foreshadowing the trajectory of her career.
From 2012 to 2014, she was best known for portraying Gwen Stacy in the two “The Amazing Spider-Man” films alongside Andrew Garfield, her real-life partner.
An actress in “Oscar roles”
Emma Stone’s career took a significant turn with “Birdman” by Alejandro González Iñárritu. In the film, she portrays the daughter of Michael Keaton’s character, a former drug addict. Her performance garnered her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 2015.
At the age of 27, she became highly sought after and ranked among the top twenty highest-paid actresses globally. Her roles varied greatly, from starring alongside Colin Firth and later Joaquin Phoenix in two Woody Allen films, “Magic in the Moonlight” (2014) and “Irrational Man” (2015), to appearing in comedic music videos with Andy Samberg for the parody documentary “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping” (2016). Additionally, she learned to play tennis for the feminist biopic “Battle of the Sexes” (2017).
In 2016, Emma Stone reunited with Ryan Gosling in Damien Chazelle’s musical “La La Land,” which became a massive success. Stone won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2017, along with a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. The following year, she received another Oscar nomination for her supporting role in Yórgos Lánthimos’s “The Favourite.”
Could Emma Stone win the Oscar for Best Actress in 2024?
The actress shows no signs of slowing down and even revisited her roots in the post-apocalyptic comedy “Zombieland: Double Tap” in 2019. She’s also unafraid of physical transformations, portraying a Disney villain in 2021’s “Cruella.”
Emma Stone considers her role as Bella Baxter in “Poor Creatures” to be the most demanding of her career to date. She admitted that it was certainly the most difficult character she had ever played. Released in January 2024, Yórgos Lánthimos’ film revisits the Frankenstein myth through a young woman who grows up with the brain of a baby. In an interview with HuffPost, Emma Stone described her character as “a unique creature who does not live in any social construct.”
If Emma Stone were to win the Oscar for Best Actress on March 11, this award would not be undeserved. Just as if Lily Gladstone were to win. Because, as with everything related to art, the Oscars are subjective. Both actresses acknowledge this, as Lily Gladstone told the AP, “To quote Emma and our exchange of SMS, ‘how can we put such subjective things in competition?’ Each of these films is breathtaking.”
