Emma Stone was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1988. She made her television debut in 2004 and her film debut in 2007. Her breakthrough year was 2009, when she appeared in three films. Since then she has been in numerous box office hits. She has worked with directors as varied as Cameron Crowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Woody Allen, and starred opposite leading men such as Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, and Matthew McConaughey.
Emma Stone has been nominated three times for an Oscar for Best Actress, and won for the 2016 musical romantic comedy-drama film “La La Land.” She has also won a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award. She was the world’s highest-paid actress in 2017.
24/7 Tempo has compiled a list of the 18 best movies starring Emma Stone. The list is dominated by comedies and romantic movies, but she has demonstrated her range by starring in Spider-Man superhero films and serious dramas such as “The Help.” These are the 100 best movies of the last 100 years, according to critics.
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The ranking is based on an index of IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes movie ratings. IMDb is an online movie database owned by Amazon. Rotten Tomatoes is an online movie and TV review aggregator. Only the roughly 5,000 feature films with 25,000 reviews or more on IMDb were considered for this analysis. Each movie’s domestic box office was obtained from The Numbers, an online movie database owned by consulting firm Nash Information Services.
18. Movie 43 (2013)
> Fellow leads: Kieran Culkin
> Director: Griffin Dunne
> Domestic box office: $8.84 million
“Movie 43” is an anthology comedy movie featuring 14 different storylines, each one by a different director. Emma Stone plays the title Veronica, about a former couple who have an argument that is unknowingly broadcast throughout the store where her ex works.
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17. Aloha (2015)
> Fellow leads: Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Alec Baldwin
> Director: Cameron Crowe
> Domestic box office: $21.05 million
Emma Stone plays Air Force Captain Allison Ng in this romantic comedy. Her character is meant to be one quarter Chinese and one quarter Hawaiian and the movie was accused of whitewashing the cast, for which director Cameron Crowe apologized.
16. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
> Fellow leads: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas
> Director: Mark Waters
> Domestic box office: $55.25 million
“Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” is a romantic comedy based on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Emma Stone plays Allison Vandermeersh, one of the ghostly girlfriends.
15. The House Bunny (2008)
> Fellow leads: Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Kat Dennings
> Director: Fred Wolf
> Domestic box office: $48.24 million
“The House Bunny” is a comedy about a former Playboy bunny who becomes the house mother of an unpopular university sorority. Emma Stone plays a nerdy, intellectual member of the sorority.
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14. Gangster Squad (2013)
> Fellow leads: Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Giovanni Ribisi
> Director: Ruben Fleischer
> Domestic box office: $46.00 million
“Gangster Squad” is an action crime film set in Los Angeles in 1949. Emma Stone plays Grace Faraday, mobster Mickey Cohen’s social etiquette teacher and quasi lover.
13. Irrational Man (2015)
> Fellow leads: Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, Joe Stapleton
> Director: Woody Allen
> Domestic box office: $4.03 million
Emma Stone plays a student at a New England college where a philosophy professor is experiencing an existential crisis in this Woody Allen film.
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12. Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
> Fellow leads: Colin Firth, Marcia Gay Harden, Hamish Linklater
> Director: Woody Allen
> Domestic box office: $10.51 million
Emma Stone plays a clairvoyant and mystic who encounters famous illusionists on the French Riviera in the 1920s in this Woody Allen film.
11. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
> Fellow leads: Andrew Garfield, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti
> Director: Marc Webb
> Domestic box office: $202.85 million
Emma Stone plays Peter Parker’s girlfriend Gwen Stacy in this superhero film. It is the sequel to “The Amazing Spider-Man” and the final film in “The Amazing Spider-Man” series.
10. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
> Fellow leads: Andrew Garfield, Rhys Ifans, Irrfan Khan
> Director: Marc Webb
> Domestic box office: $262.03 million
“The Amazing Spider-Man” is a reboot of Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” trilogy from 2002 to 2007. Emma Stone plays Peter Parker’s girlfriend Gwen Stacy.
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9. The Croods (2013)
> Fellow leads: Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener
> Director: Kirk DeMicco
> Domestic box office: $187.17 million
Emma Stone plays an adventurous cave girl in this prehistoric family film. It was her first big role in an animated production.
8. Battle of the Sexes (2017)
> Fellow leads: Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Sarah Silverman
> Director: Jonathan Dayton
> Domestic box office: $12.64 million
Emma Stone plays Billie Jean King in this biographical sports film loosely based on the 1973 tennis match between the famous woman player and Bobby Riggs.
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7. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
> Fellow leads: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin
> Director: Ruben Fleischer
> Domestic box office: $73.12 million
“Zombieland: Double Tap” is a sequel released 10 years after Zombieland, a comedy film in which Emma Stone plays one of the survivors of a zombie apocalypse.
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6. Easy A (2010)
> Fellow leads: Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley, Dan Byrd
> Director: Will Gluck
> Domestic box office: $58.40 million
“Easy A” is a teen comedy-drama film. Emma Stone plays Olive Penderghast, a 17-year-old girl who narrates the story speaking into her webcam.
5. Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
> Fellow leads: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore
> Director: Glenn Ficarra
> Domestic box office: $84.35 million
“Crazy, Stupid, Love” is about a middle-aged man called Cal who is separated from his wife. He meets Jacob, a seducer who offers to teach him how to pick up women. Emma Stone plays Hannah, a recent law school graduate who has resisted Jacob’s advances and who later turns out to be Cal’s daughter.
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4. The Favourite (2018)
> Fellow leads: Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult
> Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
> Domestic box office: $34.37 million
“The Favourite” is a black comedy set in England in the 18th century. Emma Stone plays Abigail Masham, who is competing with Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, to be the favorite of Queen Anne.
3. The Help (2011)
> Fellow leads: Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard
> Director: Tate Taylor
> Domestic box office: $169.71 million
“The Help” is a drama film about race relations. It tells the story of an aspiring journalist called Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, played by Emma Stone, and her relationship with two African-American maids during the Civil Rights era in Jackson, Mississippi.
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2. Zombieland (2009)
> Fellow leads: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin
> Director: Ruben Fleischer
> Domestic box office: $75.59 million
“Zombieland” is a comedy film in which Emma Stone plays one of the survivors of a zombie apocalypse.
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1. La La Land (2016)
> Fellow leads: Ryan Gosling, Rosemarie DeWitt, J.K. Simmons
> Director: Damien Chazelle
> Domestic box office: $151.10 million
“La La Land” is a musical romantic comedy-drama film about an aspiring actress, played by Emma Stone, and a jazz pianist who fall in love while pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. It won six Oscars, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress for Stone.
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