Emma Stone has officially won her second Academy Award, after scooping up the Best Actress category at the 2024 Oscars. Woohoo! If you missed the ceremony (because, you know, time difference), here's Emma Stone's acceptance speech in full.
Award season is officially underway, with all the biggest movies from the past year being recognised for their achievements. At last night's Academy Awards [10th March] Oppenheimer swept the floor, with Cillian Murphy scooping up the Best Actor gong, and Robert Downey Jr. getting best supporting actor.
But it was Poor Things' Emma Stone who won the Best Actress award - her second in the category, after winning for La La Land all the way back in 2017.
During her speech, she recognised the other brilliant actresses in the category, before thanking Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos, and her family - including a sweet shout out for her daughter. Emma was clearly very emotional about the win, which was a candid insight into the actress's personality.
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Read her speech in full:
"Hoo boy, my dress is broken. I think it happened during 'I’m Just Ken.' I’m pretty sure. Oh, boy, this is really, this is really overwhelming. Sorry. My voice is also a little gone, whatever! The women on the stage, you are all incredible, and the women in this category: Sandra [Hüller], Annette [Bening], Carey [Mulligan], Lily [Gladstone], I share this with you. I am in awe of you, and it has been such an honour to do all of this together. I hope we get to keep doing more together. I don’t know what I’m saying.
"Oh my God, I’m totally — OK, the other night I was panicking as you can kind of see — it happens a lot — that maybe something like this could happen. And Yorgos [Lanthimos, Poor Things’ director] said to me, 'Please take yourself out of it,' and he was right, because it’s not about me.
"It’s about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts. And that is the best part about making movies, is all of us together. And I am so deeply honoured to share this with every cast member, with every crew member, with every single person who poured their love and their care and their brilliance into the making of this film.
"And Yorgos, thank you for the gift of a lifetime in Bella Baxter. I am forever thankful for you. Thank you for inviting all of us to be members of this team. Thank you.
"Oh, wait, I just — I know I have to wrap up, but I really just want to thank my family, my mum, my brother, Spencer, my dad, my husband, Dave [McCary]. I love you so much. And most importantly, my daughter who’s gonna be three in three days and has turned our lives technicolor. I love you bigger than the whole sky, my girl. So thank you so much. Don't look at the back of my dress. Thank you."
Watch Emma Stone's speech in full here:
Congrats, Emma!
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