Why Emma Stone Won Her First Oscar

Adore Stone, but it should have been Isabelle Huppert. Especially after Stone rightfully won for her complex and amazing Poor Things performance, this win seems even more silly. Also, Viola’s character was the supporting role to Denzel’s lead role. Onscreen time is never a factor. Never has been.

Hi! Opera singer here. An added bit of context for Meryl's nomination for Florence Foster Jenkins: Meryl is not just singing badly in that movie, she's mimicing FFJ's actual vocal sound, as we have extant recordings of this woman actually singing. And Meryl is doing INCREDIBLE, detailed, diligent work making that sound. FFJ would miss notes by a country mile in a way that's actually kind of hard to reproduce exactly (eg, have you ever tried to exactly mimic Pumbaa in Hakuna Matata singing, "When I was a young wartHOOOOOGGGGG" and missing that last note? Your lifetime of absorbed knowledge of how western music works makes hitting the flat note on purpose actually pretty difficult. Being flat by accident is easy; on purpose, much harder). For trained singers like Meryl, singing badly is one thing; singing badly in an accurate vocal approximation of a real person, quite another. I'm not saying I wouldn't replace her with Amy Adams in that Best Actress slot given a magic wand and a time machine – I definitely would – I just would want Meryl to miss, but also to give her her flowers for a vocal performance that was honestly much more difficult than it sounds!

If Davis went lead instead of supporting she would've lost. I love Davis; that performance and her body of work but the Oscars has ONLY EVER awarded one black woman: they've met their quota for the century.
Sad to say but many more black ladies should've won lead.
Sadder still, Emma Stone is closer to winning her third award than ANY female black lead has to getting their first.

You won't believe but i only like her Bugonia nomination … I prefer Isabelle Huppert and Sandra Huller wins over her

Cody Derricks…🤤🤤🤤🤤

Isabell won indie spirit for best actress

Loving Cody's Halloween tank top, looks very good on him. 😏👍

Looking back it really does seem like anybody else in that category but Meryl deserved to win.

She won because Gosling gave her the space to really shine. He has no ego and propped her up much like Burton did for Taylor in who’s afraid of Virginia Wolfe. She deserved Poor Things but she no Lala Land. But they always give it to the young kid on the block when it comes to women but not the same for younger men. Just ask DiCaprio or Gosling both really young when nominated the 1st time.

One of the worst winners in this category with Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cher, Jennifer Lawrence, Judy Holiday. She only deserves for Poor things!

I hate Emma Stone

"…not in a weird performance, like Ann-Margret in Tommy…" These are the gems I live for when the knowledgeable, opinionated and droll Cody comes on, these episodes with the two of them are the best. Isabelle was robbed, her film was too prickly and French for the Academy and Emma also had the upcoming starlet advantage that can win out in a year when there's no serious front-runners since the (traditionally pale, male and stale) Academy likes to see a pretty young (White) thing, dolled up and in a suggestive frock, on their stage and gushing about them for their PR. Prestige cross-promo. Good on Emma for winning, I don't begrudge her (…) but if only they'd known that Poor Things was not far off as that's her greater performance, they should've held off and shown class by choosing Huppert. Stone's onscreen the whole of Poor Things playing the life-cycle of a girl/young woman whereas she co-stars as a modern young woman, an aspiring actress even, i.e. functionally herself, in Lalaland.

have people ever watched La La Land more than once? I was at the cinema looking at the ceiling half way through. Not sure if it was terrible or not…..maybe I was just coming down from something and i should give it another go

I wish Isabelle Huppert had won, not just because she deserved it but because it would have gotten Elle announced as the Best Picture winner.

For me, I was really rooting for Isabelle Huppert to win for her powerhouse performance in 'Elle.' It one of my top favorite performances from the 2010s. I like Emma Stone a lot, but I only watched 'La La Land' once, and that was pretty much it. I liked it, but I wasn't wowed by it.
'Elle' stayed in my head for weeks. Extraordinary film and performance from Huppert. I wish she was nominated for 'The Piano Teacher.' If you know, you know.
Everyone always talks about Amy Adams being snubbed that year for 'Arrival,' but for me, I didn't see her performance as Oscar worthy. She's great, but it never screamed, "OSCAR" to me.
One of the biggest snub that year for me was Taraji P. Henson in 'Hidden Figures.' Excellent performance!
I didn't see much in Ruth Negga's performance in 'Loving.'
Meryl Streep is great in 'Florence Foster Jenkins,' but its another performance that wasn't Oscar worthy for me.
Ruth Negga and Meryl Streep are the one's I'd say didn't deserve nominations.

I don't know why she won, but I know she shouldn't have lol. Amy should've been nominated AND won. Meryl's nom for that movie was the biggest joke

Thanks, Brian 💐💐💐
Emma Stone didn't deserve her first Oscar.
Her film was clichéd and her acting mediocre.
She only deserved her second Oscar.
Her performance in Poor Things was brilliant.

Natalie Wood: Mis Cast.
Her looks don't suit Jacqueline Kennedy.
She doesn't resemble her, and the character is different.

Meryl Streep: The story of the untalented woman trying to become a singer is beautiful, but she only delivered her silly comedic performance.

Loving: The subject matter is nice, but the film is a bit weak.

C'mom! We all know Emma Stone won because Viola Davis was nominated in the supporting actress category that awards season. I imagine it was to ensure the award, especially after seeing how Meryl Streep won it in previous years when she was nominated for The Help.

Emma Stone should never have come anywhere near this Oscar. I will give her her "Poor Thing's" Oscar because she was unforgettable in that movie even though I didn't like it at all, this Oscar should have gone to Isabelle Huppert for "Elle" . Isabelle is at Catherine Deneuve levels of fame internationally and it was finally time to award one of France's most prestigious and awarded actors and then the academy blows it on bloody La La Land of all things. Very disappointing. But then Hollywood always loves a film about itself.

I love Emma Stone. While she wasn't my personal pick for the category, she was excellent, and it makes perfect sense why she won. La La Land was clearly a favorite and the runner-up for Best Picture (it won almost EVERYWHERE else), and Emma Stone shined as the female lead. She shaped a lot of what made people love that film so much. Personally, I prefer her win for Poor Things, but I wasn't mad about this win.