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Why Emma Stone Beat Lily Gladstone for Best Actress
The Poor Things star’s second Oscar was the most unexpected development on a night that mostly went chalk.
In that light, running Gladstone in supporting would undercut the campaign’s core message — the whole point was that she was on equal footing with costar Leonardo DiCaprio. At the time, it was tempting to chalk this up to the Brits’ strange nomination process, but with hindsight it seems apparent that international voters, who perhaps had more emotional distance from the genocide of Native Americans, simply didn’t respond to Killers the way their U.S. counterparts did. But as Daniel Joyaux, the rare pundit to correctly predict Stone, noted, the modern Academy is more resistant to so-called narrative wins than their predecessors.
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