Emma Stone Stuns With Best Actress Win Over Lily Gladstone

Emma Stone teared up as she took to the stage to accept her second Best Actress Oscar on Sunday for Poor Things. The actress, who previously won for La La Land in 2017, thanked director Yorgos Lanthimos, the entire team behind the film, her husband, and her daughter.

“Boy,” Stone said on stage, clearly flustered. “My dress is broken. I think it happened during ‘I’m Just Ken.’ I’m pretty sure.” Later on, after she regained her composure, she recalled a conversation she’d recently had with Lanthimos.

“The other night I was panicking, as you can kind of see happens a lot,” she said. But she recalled that the director told her, “Take yourself out of it.” That insight hit home. “It’s not about me,” Stone said. “It’s about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts, and that is the best part of making movies—is all of us together. I am so deeply honored to share this with every cast member, with every crew member, with every single person who poured their love their care and their brilliance into making this film.”

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