Emma Stone claimed her second Academy Award on Sunday, winning the best actress trophy for her role as a woman revived from the dead in the dark comedy 'Poor Things.'
LOS ANGELES, March 10 - Emma Stone claimed her second Academy Award on Sunday, winning the best actress trophy for her role as a woman revived from the dead in the dark comedy "Poor Things."The 35-year-old actress scored her first Oscar for 2016 musical "La La Land."In the Frankenstein-inspired "Poor Things," Stone played Bella Baxter, a woman who is reanimated after suicide by a mad scientist .
Bella grows increasingly independent as she journeys through a surreal version of 19th-century Europe.Stone has said the role was her favorite of her career. The actress said the admired Bella's curiosity and her appreciation for the good and the bad.In "La La Land," Stone sang and danced in her role as a struggling actress opposite Ryan Gosling in a movie that celebrated old Hollywood.