Oscars 2026: Emma Stone makes history with new nominations
Bugonia actor Emma Stone has received two Oscar nominations, bringing her career total to seven.
This achievement makes her the second-youngest person, and the youngest ever woman in Oscar history, to receive seven total nominations.
Stone has only been beaten out by Walt Disney, who reached that tally in 1936, at the age of 34. Meryl Streep had previously held the record for women. The Mamma Mia actor was 38 when she was nominated for the seventh time in 1988, which is a year older than Stone currently is.
Stone has also become the first woman to be nominated twice for producing and acting in a single film. Though Frances McDormand was the first, for 2021’s Nomadland, Stone has taken home the joint nominations for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things and Bugonia.
Stone was nominated in the ‘Best Actress’ category alongside Jessie Buckley for Hamnet, first-time nominee Rose Byrne for If Had Legs I’d Kick You, Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue, and Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value.
In the ‘Best Picture’ category, Bugonia was nominated alongside F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value and Sinners.
Bugonia, a remake of the 2003 South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet, follows two conspiracy-obsessed friends who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major corporation because they are convinced she’s an alien intent on destroying Earth.
Bugonia marks the fifth consecutive film by Lanthimos to star Stone, who stars alongside Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverston.
The American actor said of why she gravitates towards the director’s work, “I love the material that he’s drawn to and the worlds he wants to explore, and the characters that he’s been generous enough to let me try my hand at.”
Bugonia also received nominations for ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’, which was written by Will Tracy, and Best Original Score, which was written by Jerskin Fendrix.
The Oscars will take place on March 15th. Watch the official trailer for Bugonia below.
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