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Those tuned into the 96th Academy Awards might have been shocked to see Emma Stone take home the gold for Best Actress when Lily Gladstone has been sweeping the 2024 awards circuit. But regardless of our affronted faces, the Killers of the Flower Moon actor remained a class act while Stone delivered her acceptance speech.
Gladstone was shown smiling with teary eyes while the Poor Things winner recognized her fellow nominees.
“The women in this category… Sandra [Hüller], Annette [Bening], Carey [Mulligan], Lily [Gladstone], I share this with you. I’m in awe of you,” Stone said during her speech. “It has been such an honor to do all of this together and I hope we get to do more together.”
Stone continued to thank her castmates, team, and family.
Gladstone’s loss was a shock to many as she was seen as a shoo-in to win the award after her successes at the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards, both of which were historic wins that named her the first Indigenous woman to win in the respective categories.
Several people have taken to Twitter to voice their surprise at Gladstone’s loss. “What a season for Lily Gladstone with Killers of the Flower Moon,” penned editor Issac Feldberg. “She’ll be nominated again, but what an achievement to embody Mollie Burkhart so fully, to convey the complications of her soul and identity in such an epic, coursing story as this.”
“Emma Stone is absolutely incredible in Poor Things but Lily Gladstone’s performance in Killers of the Flower Moon is *forever* and it always will be,” tweeted critic David Ehrlich.
Gladstone’s supportive response to Stone’s win isn’t a guarantee at major award shows, as just last year, Angela Bassett stayed seated during Jamie Lee Curtis’s Oscar win for Best Supporting Actress during the ceremony.
Bassett has since opened up about how her loss shocked her: “I thought I handled it very well. That was my intention, to handle it very well. It was, of course, a supreme disappointment, and disappointment is human.”
Thankfully awards are just awards, and the most longlasting prize is creating a solid movie and delivering a solid performance, which Gladstone already accomplished.
