Emma Stone reveals how she ripped her dress before walking on stage at Oscars

Emma Stone reveals how she ripped her dress before walking on stage at Oscars

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Emma Stone has opened up about how her dress ended up ripped before she went on stage at the 2024 Oscars.

Would it really be an Oscars event if there wasn’t some sort of malfunction – take Jennifer Lawrence’s trip up the stairs in 2013 – and the 96th Annual Awards ceremony last night (March 10) was certainly no different.

Stone was nominated for Best Actress for her role in Poor Things.

The movie saw the actor receive a standing ovation at Venice Film Festival where it first premiered, people in awe of her portrayal of Frankenstein-esque character Bella Baxter, a young woman who passes away only to be revived by surgeon Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) who replaces her brain with that of a baby’s.

And the 35-year-old actor ended up winning the award and taking to the stage to give her acceptance speech.

However, while making her way onto the stage, Stone could be seen mouthing her dress was ‘broken’ – something she also noted before beginning her acceptance speech – and she’s since revealed the moment she believes the seam on her Louis Vuitton dress gave way.

The back of Emma Stone's dress was 'broken' when she got up on stage. Credit: Getty Images/ Rich Polk/ VarietyThe back of Emma Stone’s dress was ‘broken’ when she got up on stage. Credit: Getty Images/ Rich Polk/ Variety

In a backstage interview with Good Morning America, Stone explained she thinks the dress gave way when she was ‘part[ying] hard’ to Ryan Gosling’s performance of ‘I’m Just Ken’.

“I’m so excited for Ryan and he just absolutely crushed it,” she said. “So it was a blast, so it was worth the dress rip, you know?”

Stone joked she just got up on stage and didn’t know if she was ‘naked’ but ‘hope[d] not’ and carried on with the show.

Indeed, the actor went on with her speech to say: “Oh boy, this is really overwhelming. Sorry. OK, my voice is also a little gone, whatever. The women on the stage you are all incredible and the women in this category. Sandra, Annette, Carey, Lily, I share this with you, I’m in awe of you and it has been such an honor to do all this together, I hope we get to keep doing more together.”

Stone thinks the dress broke when she was dancing to Ryan Gosling's performance. Credit: Getty Images/ PATRICK T. FALLON/AFPStone thinks the dress broke when she was dancing to Ryan Gosling’s performance. Credit: Getty Images/ PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP

The actor recalled something Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos told her about taking herself ‘out of it’ to stop ‘panicking’.

“And he was right, because it’s not about me, it’s about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts and that is the best part about making movies, is all of us together and I am so deeply honored to share this with every cast member, every crew member, with every crew member, with every single person who poured their love and their care and their brilliance into the making of this film,” she continued.

Stone then addressed Lanthimos again, thanking him for the ‘gift of a lifetime in Bella Baxter’ as well as her family and husband and ‘most importantly’ her daughter too.

The actor added in her interview with Good Morning America after the ceremony that she’d since been sewed ‘back in’ to the dress.

Oscars 2024 Winners

Best director

Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet

Killers of the Flower Moon – Martin Scorsese

Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – WINNER

Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos

The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer

Best actor

Bradley Cooper – Maestro

Colman Domingo – Rustin

Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer – WINNER

Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Best actress

Annette Bening – Nyad

Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Huller – Anatomy of a Fall

Carey Mulligan – Maestro

Emma Stone – Poor Things – WINNER

Best picture

American Fiction

Anatomy of a Fall

Barbie

The Holdovers

Killers of the Flower Moon

Maestro

Oppenheimer – WINNER

Past Lives

Poor Things

The Zone of Interest

Best supporting actress

Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple

America Ferrera – Barbie

Jodie Foster – Nyad

Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers – WINNER

Best animated short

Letter to a Pig

Ninety-Five Senses

Our Uniform

Pachyderme

War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko – WINNER

Best animated feature

The Boy and the Heron – WINNER

Elemental

Nimona

Robot Dreams

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best original screenplay

Anatomy of a Fall – WINNER

The Holdovers

Maestro

May December

Past Lives

Best adapted screenplay

American Fiction – WINNER

Barbie

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

The Zone of Interest

Best make-up and hairstyling

Golda

Maestro

Oppenheimer

Poor Things – WINNER

Society of the Snow

Best production design

Barbie

Killers of the Flower Moon

Napoleon

Oppenheimer

Poor Things – WINNER

Best costume design

Barbie

Killers of the Flower Moon

Napoleon

Oppenheimer

Poor Things – WINNER

Best international feature

Io Capitano

Perfect Days

Society of the Snow

The Teachers’ Lounge

The Zone of Interest – WINNER

Best supporting actor

Sterling K Brown – American Fiction

Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr – Oppenheimer – WINNER

Ryan Gosling – Barbie

Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things

Best visual effects

The Creator

Godzilla Minus One – WINNER

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Napoleon

Best film editing

Anatomy of a Fall

The Holdovers

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer – WINNER

Poor Things

Best documentary short

The ABCs of Book Banning

The Barber of Little Rock

Island In Between

The Last Repair Shop – WINNER

Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó

Best documentary feature

Bobi Wine: The People’s President

The Eternal Memory

Four Daughters

To Kill a Tiger

20 Days in Mariupol – WINNER

Best live action short

The After

Invincible

Knight of Fortune

Red, White and Blue

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar – WINNER

Best cinematography

El Conde

Killers of the Flower Moon

Maestro

Oppenheimer – WINNER

Poor Things

Best sound

The Creator

Maestro

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Oppenheimer – WINNER

The Zone of Interest

Best original score

American Fiction

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer – WINNER

Poor Things

Best original song

‘The Fire Inside’ – Flamin’ Hot (Diane Warren)

‘I’m Just Ken’ – Barbie (Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt)

‘It Never Went Away’ – American Symphony (Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson)

‘Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)’ – Killers of the Flower Moon (Scott George)

‘What Was I Made For?’ – Barbie (Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell) – WINNER