- Emma Stone is on track to receive double Oscar bids for her film Bugonia.
- A double bid makes Stone the youngest woman with seven total Oscar nominations, surpassing Streep.
- Stone would be the first woman in history nominated twice for both Best Actress and Best Picture.
- The two-time winner previously achieved the rare dual nomination with her hit film Poor Things.
Hollywood is currently watching the awards circuit with bated breath, as Emma Stone prepares to potentially etch her name even deeper into Academy Awards history. The two-time Best Actress winner is favored to receive dual nominations for her new Focus Features black comedy, Bugonia, when the Oscar nods are announced on January 22nd. If she lands both a Best Actress nod and a Best Picture bid as a producer, Stone, at age 37, will land herself in some extraordinarily rare company.
This achievement would solidify Stone’s formidable awards résumé in a historically significant way. She would officially surpass Meryl Streep to become the youngest woman ever to earn seven career nominations in any category. Streep reached her seventh nod at age 38 in 1988 for Ironweed. Additionally, Stone would trail only Walt Disney, who hit the seven-nomination milestone at the remarkably young age of 34 in 1936, demonstrating the magnitude of this record.
Beyond the age factor, the dual nomination itself carries immense historic weight, especially for female producers. Stone would become the first woman in Oscar history to achieve the distinction twice in the combined categories of Best Actress and Best Picture. She previously accomplished this feat with Poor Things (2023), securing her second Best Actress win and a Best Picture nomination as a producer.
Actresses being recognized as producers for films in which they star remains an anomaly in Oscar history. Only Frances McDormand has matched this dual sweep for Nomadland (2020). Historically, the list is strikingly short. For example, while Barbra Streisand and Margot Robbie received Best Picture nominations as producers for The Prince of Tides (1991) and Barbie (2023), respectively, they both famously failed to secure corresponding Best Actress nominations. Stone’s potential dual citation for Bugonia reinforces her commitment to bold, creative control both in front of and behind the camera.
Having already received double bids at both the Critics Choice and Golden Globe Awards for Bugonia, Stone is now poised to chase the all-time nomination record. Get ready for nominations morning; history might be made.
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