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It’s Hollywood’s biggest night! The 2017 Academy Awards are airing tonight, February 26, and Decider has got all of your Oscars needs covered. You can live stream the 2017 Oscars here, and click here to check out the rest of Decider’s coverage.
Tonight Emma Stone completed her 12-year odyssey from reality TV ingenue to Oscar-winning Best Actress. She accepted the award for her work in the musical La La Land, which tied an Academy Awards record this year with 14 nominations, eventually taking home six statues.
After Leonardo DiCaprio announced her name, the 28-year-old Stone hugged her younger brother, Spencer, and co-star Ryan Gosling before walking to the stage from her front row seat. She arrived at the microphone out of breath. “To the women in this category—Natalie [Portman], Isabelle [Huppert], Meryl [Streep], Ruth [Negga]—you are all so extraordinary, and I look up to you, and I admire you more than I could put into words,” she began. “It has been the greatest honor just to stand alongside you, that is the greatest honor of all.”
Stone turned reflective after thanking her family. “I realize that a moment like this is a huge confluence of luck and opportunity. And so I want to thank Damien Chazelle for the opportunity to be part of a project that was so special and once in a lifetime. I’m so grateful to have been involved in this film and thank you for your faith and your patience and such a wonderful experience. And Ryan Gosling, thank you for making me laugh, and for always raising the bar, and for being the greatest partner on this crazy adventure,” she said with a laugh.
“To our whole crew, everyone that put their heart and souls into this film. I’m going to find you all individually, and I’m going to thank you, along with my friends who I love so much—I’m going to hug the hell out of you when the feeling re-enters my body. I still have a lot of growing and learning and work to do, and this guy is a really beautiful symbol to continue on that journey and I am so grateful for that.”
Throughout awards season, Stone cemented this outcome’s likelihood by first winning the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA for her role as Mia, an aspiring actress who’s career takes off once she splits with her jazz musician beau, Sebastian (Gosling). Mia and Sebastian’s first onscreen interaction is a traffic altercation where they flip each other off, but after a couple more accidental run-ins, they proceed to sing and dance all over the City of Angels.
Two years ago, Stone received her first nomination, a Best Supporting Actress nod for Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). While La La Land lost its first few categories of the night, the film racked up wins in the second half of the telecast, including Best Score for Justin Hurwitz, Best Song for “City of Stars,” and Best Director for Chazelle.
Before Stone even entered the Dolby Theatre, she made headlines this evening for pairing an embroidered and tiered gold Givenchy Haute Couture dress with and a gold Planned Parenthood pin.
