Emma Stone arrives at the Oscars on Sunday. She won Best Actress for “Poor Things.”
Emma Stone won Best Actress at the 2024 Academy Awards Sunday night, closing out an exciting months-long rivalry with Lily Gladstone.
Gladstone and Stone had been trading wins back and fourth throughout the awards season, which began in January with the Golden Globes. Stone won the Best Actress in a Comedy at the Globes, while Gladstone took Best Actress in a Drama.
They didn’t compete directly at the Globes, but they did at other awards programs. Stone went on to win at the BAFTAs for Best Actress.
But at the Screen Actors Guild awards last month, which is voted on by many of the same people who have a vote in the Oscars, Gladstone took home the big prize.
Historic Oscar Nomination for Gladstone
A victory for Gladstone would have been historic. The 37-year-old, who is of Siksikaitsitapi and NiMíiPuu descent, became the first Native American to earn a nod in the Best Actress category. And no Native American performer has ever won an Oscars acting category.
Two Indigenous actresses have earned Oscar nominations—Roma’sYalitza Aparicio in 2018 and Whale Rider’s Keisha Castle-Hughes in 2003.
In Moon, Gladstone plays Mollie Kyle, a member of the Osage Nation who has become wealthy from the oil on her native land. Married to a white man (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), Mollie is devastated when members of her family are murdered one after another, in a conspiracy that hits close to home.
Poor Things Earns Three Early Oscars
Poor, meanwhile, is a gender-swapped retelling of Frankenstein, starring Stone as the monster character. The movie began the night strong by sweeping several of the design categories early in the night.
The film earned victories for Best Costume Design for Holly Waddington; Best Makeup and Hairstyling for Mark Coulier, Nadia Stacey and Josh Weston; and Best Production Design for Shona Heath, Zsuzsa Mihalek and James Price.
Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Michelle Yeoh won the 2023 Best Actress Oscar, becoming the first Asian actress to win the trophy.
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