Emma Stone would be lucky 13th double Best Actress Oscar winner

Emma Stone won the Best Actress Oscar in 2017 for her role as an actress trying to make it big in Damien Chazelle‘s “La La Land.” Stone has also earned two Best Supporting Actress bids, the first in 2015 for “Birdman” and the second for “The Favourite” in 2019. She reteams with the latter’s director, Yorgos Lanthimos, for Searchlight Pictures’ “Poor Things.” The film, which is out in US theaters on Dec. 8, follows Stone as Bella Baxter — a woman brought back to life by a scientist (Willem Dafoe) and subsequently goes on a journey of self-discovery, meeting a variety of people along the way including a lawyer (Mark Ruffalo) and a potential suitor (Ramy Youssef).

Stone’s performance is remarkable here, as many critics have noted.

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Nick Schager (The Daily Beast) declared that Stone will “blow your mind” in the movie, writing: “Nothing overshadows Stone’s odd, amusing and affecting performance as Bella, a beautiful beast who’s equal parts enchanting and—to those who expect her to conform to misogynistic standards—threatening. Whether in the nude or wearing one of her colorfully opulent outfits, many of them pairing puffy-shouldered coats and robes with short skirts and pants, Stone embodies Bella as a living, breathing perpetual mutation machine.”

David Rooney (The Hollywood Reporter) observed: “Emma Stone gorges on it in a fearless performance that traces an expansive arc most actors could only dream about… Stone’s gift for physical comedy has never been tapped to this extent, whether Bella is rushing at something faster than her uncertain limbs can carry her, gleefully smashing plates, getting to grips with a kipper, bopping Max on the nose by way of an introduction or even just spreading herself on the ground to feel the new sensation of a carpet of leaves.”

Ryan Lattanzio (Indie Wire) noted: “Stone, in her most brazenly weird performance to date, plays her like a toddler taking its first steps and saying its first words — until by the end of ‘Poor Things’ she’s speaking fluent French and studying anatomy, her eyes and ears full of worldliness…At their center is a delightfully off-the-rails Emma Stone turn, proof that whatever cracked frequency she and Lanthimos are riding on, their alchemy is the real deal.”

No surprise then that Stone currently tops our Oscars odds chart for Best Actress, with Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”), Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), and Fantasia Barrino (“The Color Purple”). If Stone were to win, this would be her second Oscar overall and her second Best Actress victory. That would make her the 13th winner of two Best Actress gongs (two other women have claimed three and four trophies – more on them below).

Here’s the rundown of the others, organized by the year of their second win.

• Luise Rainer — “The Great Ziegfield” (1937) and “The Good Earth” (1938)

• Bette Davis — “Dangerous” (1936) and “Jezebel” (1939)

• Olivia de Havilland — “To Each His Own” (1947) and “The Heiress” (1950)

• Vivien Leigh — “Gone With the Wind” (1940) and “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1952)

• Ingrid Bergman — “Gaslight” (1945) and “Anastasia” (1957)

• Elizabeth Taylor — “BUtterfield 8” (1961) and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1967)

• Glenda Jackson — “Women in Love” (1971) and “A Touch of Class” (1974)

• Jane Fonda — “Klute” (1972) and “Coming Home” (1979)

• Sally Field — “Norma Rae” (1980) and “Places in the Heart” (1985)

• Jodie Foster — “The Accused” (1989) and “The Silence of the Lambs” (1992)

• Hilary Swank — “Boys Don’t Cry” (2000) and “Million Dollar Baby” (2005)

• Meryl Streep — “Sophie’s Choice” (1983) and “The Iron Lady” (2012)

Streep is the last performer to earn this repeat while Rainer was the first. What is interesting about this is the gap between these performers’ first and second wins. Rainer won consecutively; Davis, de Havilland, Jackson, and Foster waited three years; Field and Swank each repeated at the five-year mark; Taylor had a gap of six years; and Fonda one of seven. Leigh and Bergman bided their time for an even dozen years while Streep had to wait almost three decades between the first and her second Best Actress wins. An Oscars afterglow is a strong phenomenon. To paraphrase Field, when voters like you, they really like you. That is good news for Stone, who won her first Best Actress award six years ago.

In general, however, the academy usually gives its Best Actress award to performers who have never won an Oscar. Only four of the last 10 Best Actress winners have won Oscars beforehand. Cate Blanchett won Best Actress in 2014 for “Blue Jasmine” — she had previously claimed Best Supporting Actress in 2005 for “The Aviator.” Renée Zellweger won Best Actress for “Judy” in 2020 — she had taken home Best Supporting Actress in 2004 for “Cold Mountain.”

Then there is Frances McDormand — she won Best Actress in 2018 for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” in 2018 and then again in 2021 for “Nomadland” (she also shared in Best Picture for the latter as a producer). McDormand had previously won Best Actress in 1997 for “Fargo.” The record number of wins in this category to Katharine Hepburn, who won in 1934 for “Morning Glory,” in 1968 for “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” in 1969 for “The Lion in Winter,” and in 1982 for “On Golden Pond.”

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