Emma Stone’s Best Actress Oscar win over Lily Gladstone doesn’t feel right – and Stone herself seems to know it
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Emma Stone’s wild-eyed look, as she clambered up on stage to receive the Oscar for Best Actress, said it all: she didn’t think she was going to win. I’m in awe of you.” For much of the lead-up to awards season, the conversation had centred around Martin Scorsese’s tale of Indigenous slaughter, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Lily Gladstone’s turn as Mollie Burkhart. Yet, one of the only people to pierce the bubble of near-total, apolitical silence during the evening was The Zone of Interest’s director Jonathan Glazer, who said, while accepting the award for Best International Film: “All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present: not to say ‘Look what they did then’ – rather, ‘Look what we do now.’” Glazer’s film – a portrait of the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his family – won both Best International Film and Best Sound. Stone’s win is a commendable one, but for a night that tested art’s true value in a fractured world – well, even Stone might agree that the right choice seemed self-explanatory.