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☆ Calm down. Emma Stone is not upset about Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Poor Things’ Oscars joke
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Emma Stone is setting the record straight about her viral reaction to a joke made at this year’s Oscars by host Jimmy Kimmel. “I didn’t call him a p—k,” she told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on Wednesday. I’ll have to look that up.”Throughout the Oscars telecast, a montage of scenes from each of the 10 best picture-nominated films was shown. After the “Poor Things” clip played, Kimmel joked that “those were all the parts of ‘Poor Things’ that we’re allowed to show on TV,” seemingly in reference to the graphic and sexual nature of the R-rated film. Lanthimos and Stone previously worked together on 2018’s “The Favourite” prior to “Poor Things,” and are teaming back up for “Kinds of Kindness,” coming out on June 21.

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☆ After viewers accused Emma Stone of snubbing Michelle Yeoh onstage at the Oscars, Yeoh says she was 'confused'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewMichelle Yeoh attempted to clear the air after claims that Emma Stone snubbed her onstage when Yeoh presented her with the best actress award at the Oscars Sunday. In footage from the event, Stone approaches Yeoh onstage, moving to accept the statue from her. AdvertisementSome watching at home accused Stone of rudely snubbing Yeoh when she accepted the award. Yeoh wrote in a caption of a photo from Sunday night's awards show. Stone, who played the peculiar Bella Baxter in the film, was considered a frontrunner, though not the favorite, for the best actress award.

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☆ Emma Stone had a wardrobe malfunction while accepting the Oscar for best actress
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewEmma Stone became a two-time Oscar winner on Sunday night and accepted her trophy while struggling through a wardrobe malfunction. The 96th Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood Sunday, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. At the show, Stone was a big winner, taking home the award for best actress for her performance as Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos' film "Poor Things." Emma Stone as Bella Baxter in "Poor Things." "And Yorgos, thank you for the gift of a lifetime in Bella Baxter.

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☆ Did Emma Stone include a nod to Taylor Swift in her Oscars acceptance speech?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Callie Ahlgrim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Emma Stone won best actress for "Poor Things" at the 2024 Oscars on Sunday. During her acceptance speech, she said to her daughter, "I love you bigger than the whole sky." Stone's close friend Taylor Swift has a song called "Bigger Than the Whole Sky." Swift's close friend Emma Stone had a big night, winning best actress for her mesmeric performance as Bella Baxter in "Poor Things." When Stone went onstage to accept the Oscar, she gave her 3-year-old daughter a sweet shoutout: "I love you bigger than the whole sky, my girl."

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☆ Here's how to watch the Oscar-nominated Emma Stone film 'Poor Things' at home
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

"Poor Things" is now available to stream on Hulu. It has been nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including best picture and best actress. AdvertisementIf you didn't get to catch the Academy Award-nominated "Poor Things" when it premiered in theaters last year, you can now watch it from the comfort of your own home. With 11 Oscars nominations, including best picture and best actress, the R-rated comedy directed by Yorgos Lanthimos is the second most-nominated film at this year's awards. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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Jimmy Kimmel returns as host for the fourth time, and the competition for best picture promises to be stiff. Best picture nominees include everything from Barbenheimer blockbuster summer duo "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" to indie darling "Past Lives." There's still time to watch all 10 of the best picture nominees. Below, we'll show you all of your streaming options when it comes to where to watch every 2024 Oscars best picture nominee. In addition to best picture, the film is up for best original screenplay at the Oscars.

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☆ Emma Stone said being nude in 'Poor Things' wasn't as bad as eating 60 Portuguese tarts and wanting to puke
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewEmma Stone said eating 60 Portuguese custard tarts and wanting to "puke" was more challenging than filming the much talked about sex scenes in "Poor Things." But when asked during a pre-Oscars panel on Saturday if it was tough to play "an explicitly sexual character," Stone said other aspects of filmer were harder. This isn't the first time that Stone has discussed the film's explicit nature. AdvertisementBack in January, she said that she isn't someone who "wants to be naked all the time," but she wanted to play Bella as faithfully to the story as possible.

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☆ ‘Poor Things,’ the Weird Movie, Was a Weird Novel First
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( A.J. Goldmann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Hot air balloons soar above the Mediterranean. Aerial streetcars fly along ropes suspended above the alleys of a candy-colored Lisbon. Pastel green smoke billows into the night sky from the funnels of a cruise ship. And it may not even be his most eccentric book. A prolific writer and visual artist who died at 85 in 2019, Gray wrote five other novels, two novellas, 89 short stories and a version of Dante’s Divine Comedy (“Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse”).

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☆ How the Choreographer for ‘Poor Things’ Uses Dance to Tell the Story
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( A.J. Goldmann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Bella Baxter, the film’s heroine played by Emma Stone, doesn’t seem to hear him. She is captivated by the rhythmic thump-thump-thump of the orchestra serenading the dinner guests. As if possessed, she follows the beat to the dance floor, where she lets loose with a joyous, primitive and sublimely wacky dance that has become one of the year’s defining screen moments. For Constanza Macras, the film’s choreographer, that scene was about more than just having fun. “It’s a moment that defines the relationship,” explained Macras, 53, who hails from Argentina and is based in Berlin.

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☆ Opinion: ‘Lisa Frankenstein’ is giving us a new kind of monster
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The new “Lisa Frankenstein,” by Zelda Williams in her directorial debut, hits some of the same notes. Kathryn Newton stars as Lisa Swallows and Cole Sprouse as The Creature in LISA FRANKENSTEIN, a Focus Features release. This is where “Poor Things” and “Lisa Frankenstein” diverge. Bella Baxter in “Poor Things” starts out as a clumsy innocent, but she becomes more knowledgeable and self-confident over time. “Lisa Frankenstein” shows why that’s a loss for all of us — and Lisa is ready to cut up the patriarchy to prove it.

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☆ Emma Stone says the sex scenes in 'Poor Things' are necessary: 'I'm not a person that just wants to be naked all the time'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Emma Stone believes the sex in "Poor Things" is needed because it's part of her character's journey. The Yorgos Lanthimos movie follows Bella Baxter, a young woman resurrected by a scientist. AdvertisementEmma Stone is defending the sex and nudity in her new movie "Poor Things." "So much of this was about being true to Bella's experience," Stone said in an interview that aired on Tuesday. Emma Stone as Bella Baxter in "Poor Things."

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☆ Emma Stone defends ‘honest’ sex scenes in ‘Poor Things’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Hollywood star Emma Stone has responded to criticism of the graphic sex scenes in her latest film, “Poor Things,” telling the BBC that sex is a crucial part of her character’s storyline. Sex plays an important role in the film as one way Bella learns to understand her body, and how others covet it. Stone (left) with co-star Mark Ruffalo (right), who plays Duncan Wedderburn, one of Bella's not-so-suitable suitors. Though the film, which was released on December 22 in the US and January 12 in the UK, has mostly received positive reviews, its frank and abundant sex scenes have proved too much for some movie-goers and critics. Stone plays a woman who is brought back to life with the brain of a baby.

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☆ Wild comedy 'Poor Things' wins top prize at Venice Festival
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Crispian Balmer | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/8] The 80th Venice Film Festival - Awards Ceremony - Venice, Italy, September 9, 2023. Director Yorgos Lanthimos poses with Golden Lion Award for Best Film for the movie 'Poor Things'. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane Acquire Licensing RightsSummary Oscar favourites regularly emerge from VeniceActors strike loomed large over festivalTop actors' awards go to U.S. starsVENICE, Sept 9 (Reuters) - "Poor Things", a gothic, sex-charged comedy directed by Greece's Yorgos Lanthimos, won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. The runner-up Silver Lion award went to "Evil Does Not Exist", an enigmatic, rural drama directed by Japan's Ryusuke Hamaguchi -- the only Asian entry among the 23 films competing for the main prize. Collecting his award, Sarsgaard said AI had to be curbed, warning that the issue had implications that went far beyond Hollywood.

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☆ ‘Poor Things’ Takes Top Prize at Venice Film Festival
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Nicolas Rapold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Poor Things,” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, was awarded the Golden Lion for best film at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on Saturday by a competition jury led by Damien Chazelle. The film stars Emma Stone in a virtuoso performance as a woman with an initially childlike understanding of the world who comes into her own through a sexual and philosophical journey. Bella Baxter, the main character in the film, “wouldn’t exist without Emma Stone,” Lanthimos said. Like many other actors in films screened at the festival, Stone was not in attendance, as the strike by SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents television and movie actors, continued. Set in a partly fantastical 19th-century Europe, “Poor Things” follows Bella (Stone) on her eye-opening adventures in Tony McNamara’s adaptation of the 1992 Alasdair Gray novel.

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ROME (AP) — “Poor Things,” a film about Victorian-era female empowerment, won the Golden Lion on Saturday at a Venice Film Festival largely deprived of Hollywood glamour because of the writers and actors strikes. The film, starring Emma Stone, won the top prize at the 80th edition of the festival, which is often a predictor of Oscar glory. The film tells the story of two young boys’ odyssey from Dakar, Senegal, to the detention camps in Libya and finally across the Mediterranean to Europe. Peter Sarsgaard won best actor for “Memory,” in which he co-stars with Jessica Chastain in a film about high schoolers reuniting. Cailee Spaeny won best actress for “Priscilla,” Sofia Coppola's portrait of the private side of Priscilla and Elvis Presley.

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☆ Venice Film Festival: Emma Stone Is a Bizarro Barbie in ‘Poor Things’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Kyle Buchanan | More About Kyle Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

And you thought Barbie’s creation myth was head-spinning! “Poor Things,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, often plays like a wild, art-house remix of Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster doll opus. But this is no family film: As baby-brained Bella starts to come of age, her lack of inhibitions steers her toward sexual situations that had the Venice moviegoer next to me squirming in his seat. Quite literally a child in a woman’s body, Bella can barely string words together and is given to shocking outbursts. Even gaining control of her limbs is a challenge: Bella lurches through Baxter’s mansion like a zombie dressed in drag, which I suppose she kind of is.

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☆ 'Why is there no sex in movies anymore?' asks Yorgos Lanthimos
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] The 80th Venice Film Festival - Premiere for the film "Poor Things" in competition - Red Carpet - Venice, Italy, September 1, 2023 - Director Yorgos Lanthimos poses. The picture was made by Yorgos Lanthimos and stars Emma Stone as Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life after committing suicide in Victorian London. So you can understand that there is a shorthand," Lanthimos said, adding this meant the actor understood why the myriad sex scenes were needed. Stone also produced "Poor Things", which meant she was involved in the decision-making from the word go. "Poor Things" is one of 23 movies competing for the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, which runs until Sept. 9.

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