Emma Stone arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Credit/Provider: Etienne Laurent / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.
Two time Academy Award winner Emma Stone is one of the most accomplished and popular actresses working today.
The actress, who won her first Oscar for her work in ‘La La Land,’ and her second for ‘Poor Things‘, is best known for roles in films like ‘Superbad,’ ‘Easy A,’ ‘The Help,’ ‘Birdman,’ ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love.,”Cruella,’ and ‘The Favourite,’ as well as the ‘Zombieland‘ and ‘Amazing Spider-Man‘ franchises.
Stone has reunited with acclaimed director Yorgos Lanthimos for their fourth film, ‘Bugonia‘ which opens in theaters on October 24th.
“It all starts with something magnificent.”
Release Date: Oct 31, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 58 min
Budget: $55,000,000
In honor of her new film, Moviefone is counting down the 20 best movies of Emma Stones long and impressive career.
Let’s begin!
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Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider-Man in ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2.’ Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing.
For Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy (Stone), high school graduation cannot come quickly enough. Peter has not forgotten about the promise he made to Gwen’s father to protect her by staying away, but that is a promise he cannot keep. Things will change for Peter when a new villain, Electro (Jamie Foxx), emerges, an old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), returns, and Peter uncovers new clues about his past.
“His greatest battle begins.”
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Run Time: 2 hr 21 min
Budget: $200,000,000
When notorious womanizer Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) attends his brother Paul’s wedding, he is forced to re-evaluate his behavior as he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of girlfriends past (Stone), present (Noureen DeWulf), and future (Olga Maliouk), along with his deceased uncle (Michael Douglas). The experience changes his attitude and allows him to reconnect with his first and only love, Jenny (Jennifer Garner).
“You can’t always run from your past.”
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Run Time: 1 hr 55 min
Budget: $37,500,000
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling) who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.
“No names. No badges. No mercy.”
Release Date: Jan 11, 2013
Run Time: 1 hr 53 min
Budget: $60,000,000
A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne (Jeff Daniels) and a Long Island teen (Stone) who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife (Lisa Kudrow) and his imaginary Superhero friend (Ryan Reynolds).
“A little imagination goes a long way”
Release Date: Jun 15, 2009
Run Time: 1 hr 50 min
Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), Wichita (Emma Stone), and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family.
Release Date: Oct 18, 2019
Run Time: 1 hr 39 min
Budget: $42,000,000
Emma Stone in ‘Poor Things.’ Photo by Yorgos Lanthimos. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2023 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.
From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Release Date: Sep 8, 2023
Run Time: 2 hr 21 min
Budget: $35,000,000
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King (Stone) and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell).
“He made a bet. She made history.”
Release Date: Sep 29, 2017
Run Time: 2 hr 1 min
Budget: $25,000,000
Shelley (Anna Faris) is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have – a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.
“For the girls of ZETA house college life was no party, until Shelley showed up.”
Release Date: Aug 22, 2008
Run Time: 1 hr 37 min
Budget: $25,000,000
‘Kinds of Kindness’ is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
In 1970s London, amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella (Stone), a clever and creative girl, is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson), a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.
Release Date: May 28, 2021
Run Time: 2 hr 14 min
Budget: $200,000,000
Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’, a Focus Features release. Credit: Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.
Two conspiracy obsessed young men (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) kidnap the high-powered CEO (Stone) of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
“It all starts with something magnificent.”
Release Date: Oct 31, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 58 min
Budget: $55,000,000
Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), his father’s former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors’ alter ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.
“His past was kept from him, his search for answers has just begun.”
Release Date: Jul 3, 2012
Run Time: 2 hr 16 min
Budget: $215,000,000
Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family’s struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan (Stone) is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around “the help”; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
“Change begins with a whisper.”
Release Date: Aug 10, 2011
Run Time: 2 hr 26 min
Budget: $25,000,000
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) and Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz) is threatened by the arrival of Sarah’s cousin, Abigail Hill (Stone), resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen’s favourite.
Release Date: Dec 21, 2018
Run Time: 2 hr
Budget: $15,000,000
Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily (Julianne Moore). Cal’s seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling), a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.
“This is crazy. This is stupid. This is love.”
Release Date: Jul 29, 2011
Run Time: 1 hr 58 min
Budget: $50,000,000
Emma Stone as Olive Penderghast in “Easy A.’ Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing.
Olive (Stone), an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school’s gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents (Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson) and a little help from a long-time crush (Penn Badgley), Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.
“Let’s not and say we did.”
Release Date: Sep 17, 2010
Run Time: 1 hr 33 min
Budget: $8,000,000
Two co-dependent high school seniors (Jonah Hill and Michael Cera) are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
Release Date: Aug 17, 2007
Run Time: 1 hr 53 min
Budget: $20,000,000
Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.
Release Date: Oct 8, 2009
Run Time: 1 hr 28 min
Budget: $23,600,000
A fading actor (Michael Keaton) best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.
“How did we end up here?”
Release Date: Nov 14, 2014
Run Time: 2 hr
Budget: $18,000,000
(L to R) Ryan Gosling as Sebastian “Seb” Wilder and Emma Stone as Amelia “Mia” Dolan in ‘La La Land.’ Photo: Lionsgate.
Mia (Stone), an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
“Here’s to the fools who dream.”
Release Date: Dec 16, 2016
Run Time: 2 hr 9 min
Budget: $30,000,000
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