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Emma Stone has won the Best Actress award at the 96th Academy Awards, suffering an awkward wardrobe mishap as she took to the stage to collect her second Oscar.
Beating the other nominees in the category, Emma triumphantly scooped up an award for her role of Bella Baxter in Poor Things, with her winning the Best Actress statuette. She was up against the likes of Annette Bening for her role in Nyad, Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon, Sandra Huller in Anatomy of a Fall, and Carey Mulligan for her role in Maestro.
Emma, who first won an Oscar for her role in La La Land in 2017, told the star-studded crowd not to look at the back of her dress as she delivered her acceptance speech on stage inside the Dolby Theatre, after ripped her stunning white peplum gown. "My dress is broken, I think it happened during I’m Just Ken," the mum-of-one joked at the start of her speech.
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Emma Stone wins Best Actress award and collects second Oscar as she suffers wardrobe malfunction (Getty Images)Emma - who is only the 13th woman to bag two Best Actress trophies - appeared visibly overwhelmed and wept as she said: "I don’t know what I’m saying." She added: "The other night I was panicking, as you can see it happens a lot, that something like this could happen. I am so deeply honoured to share this with every cast member with every crew member who poured their love and care and their brilliance into the making of this film."
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After thanking her family, she saved her final thanks for "my daughter, who is going to be three in three days and who turned our whole lives technicolour."
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She added: "I love you bigger than the whole sky, my girl." Before exiting the stage, she said: "Don’t look at the back of my dress."
Meanwhile, in the Best Actor category, the likes of Bradley Cooper for his role in biopic Maestro, went up against Colman Domingo in Rustin; Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers; Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer; and Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction. It was Irish actor Cillian who was the one to bag the major honour inside the Dolby Theatre this evening.
The award-winning actress didn't let the wardrobe malfunction ruin her winThe Peaky Blinders actor, 47, plays the "father of the atomic bomb" J Robert Oppenheimer in the Christopher Nolan-directed film. He kissed his wife before heading to the stage, where Murphy told producers Nolan and Emma Thomas that making the film had "been the wildest, most creatively satisfying journey."
"I am a very proud Irishman standing here tonight," he added. "I would like to dedicate this to the peacemakers of the world." At the end, Murphy spoke in Irish, saying "Go Raibh Maith Agat" which means thank you.
The 96th Academy Awards took place tonight at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. The event honoured movies released in 2023, with the biggest names in the film industry turning out for the occasion in their finery for the glitzy celebratory ceremony.