Emma Stone’s Best Actress Oscar win over Lily Gladstone doesn’t feel right – and Stone herself seems to know it
Emma Stone’s wild-eyed look, as she clambered up on stage to receive the, said it all: she didn’t think she was going to win. Perhaps, even, she wasn’t quite sure she was meant to win. Her in Yorgos Lanthimos’s about a reanimated woman with a baby’s brain who rediscovers the world step by step, sensation by sensation, is truly joyous. She offers us Bella’s curiosity, her fierce intellect, her unsteady limbs, her wildfire emotions – all without ever demeaning or infantilising her. She’s a fabulistic creation, given flesh-and-blood relatability through Stone’s contributions.
