‘The Curse’ puts Emma Stone on track to win both Oscar and Emmy in the same year

Jacob Sarkisian
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Emma Stone became the lucky 13th two-time Best Actress Oscar champ with her recent win for “Poor Things.” And she could well be adding an Emmy to her awards collection for her leading role in Showtime’s idiosyncratic drama series “The Curse.”

“The Curse,” created by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie, follows a newly married couple (Stone and Fielder) who host an HGTV show while trying to conceive a baby and navigate a curse. Sure the series is rich in cringe comedy that is hard to tear your eyes from even if you watch through your fingers. But it is also intelligent, dark and surprisingly moving. At the heart of it all is Stone, who delivers yet another tour de force, as noted by critics.

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Joel Golby (The Guardian) proclaimed: “Emma Stone is in there, continuing to be our generation’s finest mouth actor – she really can show a whole range of emotion just with a tight fake smile or a bulge of the eyes – and here she is on the same form that makes me rewatch ‘Maniac’ every couple of years or, you know, won her an Oscar that time.”

Brian Tallerico (Roger Ebert) opined: “Stone is phenomenal as a person who doesn’t consider the long-term impact of her actions as she pushes an agenda that she’s so convinced is righteous that she doesn’t comprehend anyone’s perspective but her own. She’s a person who waits for her turn to talk instead of listening, a personality type that dots the entire pop culture landscape and one that Stone keenly understands.”

Nick Schager (The Daily Beast) observed: “Led by Emma Stone in what may be the finest performance of her career, it’s simultaneously choke-on-your-laughter weird and squirm-inducingly terrifying, the two climaxing in a finale of mind-boggling insanity… ‘The Curse’ elevates its lampoon through sociopathic peculiarity, much of it handled by Stone in a magnificent headlining turn defined by insincere smiles laced, at the corners of her mouth (and in her eyes), with hints of fury, self-loathing, and hurt.”

Ben Travers (Indie Wire) enthused: “Stone, meanwhile, is on fire. With a smile permanently plastered from ear to ear, Whitney almost never lets her guard down, and instead puts on whatever face best suits her audience. Seeing both sides — often one right after the other, whenever the camera rolls and cuts — is hilarious in Stone’s hands, but she never loses touch with Whitney’s core self. You can see the gears turning at every moment, and the actor composes a complex machine behind those beaming eyes.”

We are currently predicting Stone will be nominated for Best Drama Actress alongside Jennifer Aniston (“The Morning Show”), Imelda Staunton (“The Crown”), Carrie Coon (“The Gilded Age”), Reese Witherspoon (“The Morning Show”), and Maya Erskine (“Mr. and Mrs. Smith”).

Stone could join a host of stars who have been nominated for or won an Oscar and then been nominated for an Emmy in the same year. Stone’s “The Favourite” co-star Olivia Colman won the Best Actress Oscar for that film in 2019 and, in the same year, was nominated for Best Comedy Supporting Actress at the Emmys for “Fleabag.” She then repeated this feat in reverse in 2021 when she landed a Best Supporting Actress Oscar bid for “The Father” and won Best Drama Actress at the Emmys for “The Crown.”

Viola Davis won Best Supporting Actress at the 2017 Oscars for “Fences” 18 months after she made history as the first Black winner of Best Drama Actress at the Emmys for “How to Get Away With Murder.” Laura Dern won Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars in 2020 for “Marriage Story,” the same year she was nominated again for Best Drama Supporting Actress for “Big Little Lies” (she’d won that award in 2017 for the first edition of that show). To paraphrase Sally Field... when they like you, they really like you. And they love Stone.

Let’s not forget how much of a respected actress Stone is, one already laden with awards. She has won two Oscars, two Golden Globes, three SAG Awards, two BAFTAs, and three Critics Choice Awards from a whole heap of nominations. Awards groups cite her whenever they get the chance. Indeed, she was nominated earlier this year for Best Drama TV Actress at the Golden Globes the same night she won for “Poor Things”; she lost the TV race to “Succession” star Sarah Snook, who won’t be eligible at the Emmys.

Emmy voters love to nominate a big-name movie star in this category. Recent such nominees include Aniston and Witherspoon (“The Morning Show”), Zendaya (“Euphoria”), Colman (“The Crown”), and Davis (“How to Get Away With Murder”).

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