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 Subject, 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 wished to share that wonderful second of handing over Oscar to you collectively together with your greatest pal Jennifer!!” Yeoh defined by way of Instagram on Monday, March 11, alongside a slideshow of pictures from the evening. “She jogged my memory of my Bae Jamie Lee Curtis ♥️✨.” (Yeoh and Curtis each starred in Every thing In all places All at As soon as, taking residence 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 ladies are “at all times there for one another!! 😘😘😘.” She concluded the message, “Congratulations Emma!!”
The 2024 awards season got here to a detailed with the 96th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10. Nominations had 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 gained greater than another […]
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. Subject gained twice for Norma Rae and Locations within the Coronary heart in 1979 and 1984, respectively, whereas Lange took residence the statue in 1995 for Blue Sky. Theron obtained the accolade in 2004 for her position 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 embody 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 just a little gone. No matter. The ladies on this class, you’re all unbelievable. Sandra, Annette, Carey, Lily, I share this with you,” she gushed whereas Gladstone, who was additionally a frontrunner of the evening. “I’m deeply honored to share this with each solid member, with each single one that 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 assist system over time.
“My mother, my brother Spencer, my dad, my husband, I like you a lot,” she mentioned by way of tears. “And most significantly, my daughter, who’s going to be 3 in three days and has turned our lives technicolor. I like you greater than the entire sky, my woman.”
