Gladstones

When Emma Stone’s name was announced Sunday night as the winner of best actress at the 96th Academy Awards, she looked genuinely stunned, as many pundits had said that Lily Gladstone was the frontrunner and predicted she would make history as the first Native American woman to win an acting Oscar. But in the run-up to Sunday’s ceremony, some awards watchers were skeptical. They expressed doubt that Gladstone would achieve this historic milestone and not because she didn’t give a superb performance in “Killers of the…

When Lily Gladstone was nominated for the lead actress Oscar for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” she sparked a wave of hope inside and outside Hollywood that she would become the first Native American to win the prize, in the Academy Awards’ 96th year.And though she received a robust wave of applause when her name was announced during the presentation of the nominees, her journey ended in disappointment as “Poor Things’” Emma Stone claimed the lead actress honor instead.“It’s not about me — it’s about a team that came…

As Lily Gladstone is set to appear at Sunday’s Academy Awards, the first Native American woman nominated for a best actress Oscar, her historic moment could wind up competing for attention with a controversial new development in a case that has made waves in Hollywood and in Native American circles for more than 50 years. A report in a leading Hollywood trade publication seeks to shed new light on the case of Sacheen Littlefeather, the late Bay Area activist who made global headlines at the 1973 Oscars when, dressed in a…

Its a battle between two Stones! Lily Gladstone triumphed over frontrunner Emma Stone at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning for her performance as the anguished Mollie Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon. Emma Stone, nominated for Poor Things, seemed the most ecstatic when Lily's name was announced, cheering enthusiastically from her seat. So, will Oscars follow next? A SAG report card to throw light on this situation. (Also read: SAG Awards 2024 nominations: From Leonardo DiCaprio to Penélope Cruz, the biggest…

Lily Gladstone made history as the first indigenous person to be awarded Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture at the 2024 Golden Globes this past weekend for her work in Martin Scorsese's bold Western epic Killers of the Flower Moon (which you can now stream with an Apple TV+ subscription). But it wasn't only that monumental and much-earned win that had her mother beaming on Sunday evening. During a January 11 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the Montana-born actress discussed attending the…

Now that Lily Gladstone has made history by being the first indigenous actor to win a Golden Globe Award for a performance in a film or TV show, the “Killers of the Flower Moon” star is poised to make history again at the Academy Awards. It’s widely believed that Gladstone, who is of Blackfeet and Nimíipuu heritage, will be nominated for best actress for her performance as Mollie Burkhart, the real-life Osage woman who was married to one of the accomplices in the systematic murders of Osage people in Oklahoma the 1920s.…