Michelle Yeoh had the sweetest purpose for passing Emma Stone’s Oscar off to Jennifer Lawrence on the 96th Academy Awards.
Yeoh, 61, together with Lawrence, 33, Sally Area, Charlize Theron and Jessica Lange all took the stage to current the Finest Actress award on the Sunday, March 10, ceremony. After naming Stone, 35, because the winner, Yeoh confused viewers when shortly handing the trophy to Lawrence who then handed it to Stone.
“I needed to share that wonderful second of handing over Oscar to you collectively together with your greatest buddy Jennifer!!” Yeoh defined by way of Instagram on Monday, March 11, alongside a slideshow of images from the evening. “She jogged my memory of my Bae Jamie Lee Curtis ♥️✨.” (Yeoh and Curtis each starred in The whole lot All over the place All at As soon as, taking dwelling the Finest Actress and Finest Supporting Actress Oscars, respectively, in 2023.)
Yeoh then praised Stone and Lawrence for his or her years-long friendship, writing that the 2 girls are “at all times there for one another!! 😘😘😘.” She concluded the message, “Congratulations Emma!!”
The 2024 awards season got here to an in depth with the 96th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10. Nominations have been introduced in January, with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer incomes probably the most nods. Amongst its 13 nominations are Finest Image, Finest Director, Finest Tailored Screenplay and Finest Actor for Cillian Murphy. (It received greater than every other […]
All the ladies who took the stage to current with Yeoh beforehand obtained the Finest Actress award, with Lawrence profitable in 2013 for Silver Linings Playbook. Area received twice for Norma Rae and Locations within the Coronary heart in 1979 and 1984, respectively, whereas Lange took dwelling the statue in 1995 for Blue Sky. Theron obtained the accolade in 2004 for her function in Monster.
Stone, in the meantime, beat out Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon, Annette Bening in NYAD, Carey Mulligan in Maestro and Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall. She earned the nod for her half as Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Poor Issues, marking her second time profitable the award after first receiving it for 2017’s La La Land. (Stone’s different previous nominations embrace Finest Actress in a Supporting Position for Birdman in 2015 and The Favorite in 2019. She was additionally up for Finest Image this yr for her work as a producer on Poor Issues.)
Stone opened her acceptance speech by thanking her fellow Finest Actress nominees. “That is actually overwhelming. My voice can also be slightly gone. No matter. The ladies on this class, you might be all unbelievable. Sandra, Annette, Carey, Lily, I share this with you,” she gushed whereas taking a look at Gladstone, who was additionally a frontrunner of the evening. “I’m deeply honored to share this with each solid member, with each single one who poured their love into the making of this movie. Thanks for the reward of a lifetime in Bella Baxter.”
Stone additionally took a beat to thank her household — together with husband Dave McCary and daughter Louise Jean — for being her help system through the years.
“My mother, my brother Spencer, my dad, my husband, I really like you a lot,” she stated by means of tears. “And most significantly, my daughter, who’s going to be 3 in three days and has turned our lives technicolor. I really like you greater than the entire sky, my woman.”
