Emma Stone Becomes the Youngest Woman Ever to Break a Major Oscar Record

Emma Stone made headlines this week as the 2026 Oscar nominations were announced. According to the official Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announcement, Stone had a huge morning, picking up two major nominations for her work on Bugonia. She is nominated for Best Actress for her performance in the film and also for Best Picture because she served as a producer.

At 37 years old, Stone has now reached a remarkable milestone. She is the second-youngest person in Oscars history to earn seven nominations. The only person to reach that milestone at a younger age was Walt Disney, who did it in 1936 at 34 years old. Stone also broke a long-standing record previously held by Meryl Streep. Streep was 38 when she received her seventh nomination in 1988.

This isn’t the only history Stone made this week. She is now the first woman ever to be nominated for acting and producing on the same film twice. She first achieved this feat with Poor Things in 2023, following Frances McDormand, who did it once for Nomadland in 2021. Stone is now showing that she is just as talented behind the camera as she is in front of it.

Stone has had a strong track record at the Oscars. Out of her previous five nominations, she has won twice in the Best Actress category. She won for La La Land in 2016 and more recently for Poor Things. If she wins again this year, she would join a very elite group. Only Katharine Hepburn, with four wins, and Frances McDormand, with three, have won Best Actress three or more times.

This year, the competition is fierce. Stone faces Jessie Buckley for Hamnet, Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue, and Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value.

In the Best Picture category, Bugonia goes up against several big films. These include the racing drama F1, the new horror adaptation of Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, and the vampire hit Sinners. Bugonia also earned nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for Will Tracy and Best Original Score for Jerskin Fendrix.

Stone has been a major star for over a decade. She first gained attention in teen comedies like Superbad and Easy A and became a global name playing Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man movies.

She has spent recent years focusing on more artistic projects. Bugonia marks another collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos. The two first worked together on The Favourite and then reunited for the Oscar-winning Poor Things and the anthology film Kinds of Kindness. Their work is known for being strange, funny, and visually unique.

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