Emma Stone Jokes She’s ‘Learning Not to Care’ About Reviews While Winning 2024 Critics Choice Award

Critics Choice Awards 2024 have chosen the winner for the best film actress of the year: Emma Stone!

The actress was honored on Sunday for her role as Bella Baxter in Poor people. She began her acceptance speech by saying she was in “total shock” when she received the award. “This is completely crazy,” she said.

Speaking about the role – in which Stone, 35, took on a woman with the brain of a child – she joked about the influence of critics in the industry. “Playing Bella has been one of the greatest joys of my life. I had to learn a lot of things playing her. Unlearn the shame parts and the social stuff that’s put on us, and I’m still working on that,” she said. .

Ending with a joke, Stone added: “This is the Critics Choice Awards – and it’s about outside opinion – but I’m very grateful to the critics for this. But I’m just learning that I don’t care what you think.”

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Emma Stone accepts the award for Best Actress during the 29th Critics Choice Awards.

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Stone also paid tribute to the other women nominated in the category — personally naming Lily Gladstone, who was nominated for Killers of the Flower MoonSandra Hüller for Anatomy of a FallGreta Lee for Past livesCarey Mulligan for Maestro and Margot Robbie for Barbie.

“This makes no sense, so,” she said of winning the award in such good company. “Thank you so much for this, it means so much to me. I was serious. I don’t know what to say.”

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Stone’s win at the Critics Choice Awards comes shortly after her win at the 2024 Golden Globes, where the star won Best Motion Picture Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. For Poor peopledirector Yorgos Lanthimos and screenwriter Tony McNamara’s sequel to their Oscar-winning Favoritethe producer-star received her fifth acting nod from the Critics Choice Association.

The Oscar winner stars as Bella Baxter, a woman given a clean 10 by a mad scientist through an experimental procedure, who gradually discovers the wonders—and dangers—of the world.

Emma Stone in ‘Les Miserables’.

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Stone has been open about why she was drawn to the role of Bella, explaining that it was “like embracing what it means to be a woman, to be free, to be scared and to be brave.”

“She understands what it’s like to be a member of society,” added the actress.

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The 29th annual Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Chelsea Handler and airing live on The CW on January 14, recognized the most deserving film and television of 2023 as voted by Hollywood critics.

Barbie dominated the film list with a total of 18 nominations, including Best Picture, with Oppenheimer and Poor people commit 13 nod. From the TV side, Morning show led the contestants with six nominations, followed by Succession with five.

Lily Gladstone in “The Flower Moon Killers”.

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Directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese Killers of the flower moon marks Gladstone’s first Critics’ Choice award, recognizing her work as the real-life Mollie Kyle, whose family and community in 1920s Oklahoma’s Osage Nation were the targets of serial murder.

Along with fellow Critics’ Choice nominees Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart and Robert De Niro as William King Hale, Gladstone, 37, is one of 12 nominees for the acclaimed film. The Golden Globe winner also starred in this year’s Unknown countryfor which she won the Gotham Award.

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Sandra Hüller in “Anatomy of the Fall”.

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Originally from Germany, Hüller made a big mark in America Anatomy of a Fall, directed and co-written by Justine Triet. The Golden Globe-winning French courtroom drama stars the 45-year-old actress as a woman who may or may not have murdered her husband in their snowy cabin.

Although she directed films like those from 2006 Requiem and in 2016 Toni Erdmann, this is Hüller’s first accolade from the Critics Choice Association, a Golden Globe and more. In December, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association honored Hüller (and Stone from Poor people) with the award for best actress — for both Anatomy of a Fall and Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust film Zone of interestin which she plays the real-life Hedwig Höss, the wife of the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Greta Lee in “Past Lives”.

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As an actress on Morning show and countless other scene-stealing roles, 40-year-old Lee is making his way to the Critics Choice Association for the first time thanks to A24 Past livesin which she plays South Korean expatriate Nora Moon.

past lives, also starring Teo Yoo and John Magaro, is the first feature film from playwright Celine Song, now nominated for Golden Globes, Gotham Awards, Spirit Awards and more.

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Carey Mulligan in “The Maestro”.

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Maestrothe Leonard Bernstein biopic from director, co-writer and star Bradley Cooper, won eight Critics Choice Awards this year.

For the role of the composer’s wife Felicia Montealegra Bernstein, Mulligan, 38, received her fourth award from the org. The British star won the same category in 2021 for A promising young woman.

Continuing his collaboration with director Emerald Fennell, Mulligan also stars in this year’s three-time Critics’ Choice nominee Saltburn.

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Margot Robbie in “Barbie”.

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Only Robbie, 33, could have predicted the meteoric success of the 2023 box office champ. Barbie. But even she may have been surprised that Mattel’s film adaptation from director and co-writer Greta Gerwig broke the record for most Critics’ Choice film nominations in a single year, with a whopping 18.

The producer and star was nominated six times for critics’ choice. In 2016, Robbie won her first two Best Action Actress contests Suicide Squad and in 2018 for the best actress in a comedy I, Tonya.

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