Emma Stone is turning heads at the 2026 Oscars.
Stone, 37, rocked a silver beaded floor-length dress by Louis Vuitton while walking the red carpet on Sunday, March 15.
The gown featured a lowback, with Stone styling her hair in a chic bob. E! reported that the dress required 600 hours of work.
Stone was also all smiles with husband Dave McCary, who looked dapper in a black tux. (The pair tied the knot in 2020, welcoming daughter Louise Jean the following year.)
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The actress is nominated for Best Actress for her role in Bugonia during the awards ceremony. With her nod, Stone became the youngest actress ever to receive seven Oscar nominations at the age of 37. (She was also nominated for Best Picture as one of Bugonia’s producers.)
Stone’s role in Bugonia marks her latest collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos, whom she previously worked with on 2023’s Poor Things and 2024 anthology film Kinds of Kindness. (She earned her second Best Actress win at the Oscars with Poor Things, which she dedicated to her daughter. She first won in 2018 for La La Land.)
In the film, Stone portrays pharmaceutical CEO Michelle Fuller — who is abducted by conspiracy theorists who believe she is an alien attempting to destroy Earth. The group, convinced she has a master plan, then shaves her head to block her ability to get in contact with her mothership.
Stone, for her part, had a conversation with her daughter to make sure Louise Jean was “very ready” to see her bald so it wasn’t “super-scary.”
“It’s such a major transformation,” she told USA Today in 2025. “I just said, ‘I’m going to shave my head. I’m going to take my hair off and it’s going to grow back. Isn’t that so silly and fun? We can do whatever we want with our hair! It can change all the time.’ She’s like, ‘OK,’ and then was totally cool.”
Stone also had to get prepared for the hair transformation, with director Lanthimos knowing he had “one chance to do it properly” in the scene. Lanthimos had four different cameras ready to go “just to make sure none of them jammed” while filming.
“They kept saying, ‘We’ll be ready in 10 minutes. Nah, actually 30 minutes. No, actually an hour,’” Stone said, noting she did get the “slightest cold feet” at the time. “I was sitting there, building the anticipation. So I had a little last-minute freak, and then Yorgos came over, we talked, and I was like, ‘I’m going to be fine. It’s going to be great.’ And I absolutely loved it.”
Stone reached a meditative-like state while her head was being shaved, saying she was “telling myself to stay still because if I opened my eyes or flinched, it would really mess things up.”
