Emma Stone’s Dress Broke While Accepting Her Oscars Award for Best Actress

"I think it happened during 'I'm Just Ken,' I'm pretty sure."

 Emma Stone accepts the Lead Actress award for "Poor Things" onstage during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California.
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Leave it to the always-relatable Emma Stone to have us fully cackling at the 2024 Oscars.

After winning the award for Best Actress for her role as Bella Baxter in Poor Things, Stone, who was clearly shocked at hearing her name announced, took to the stage while pinching the back of her Louis Vuitton dress. Was she in the middle of an awkward wardrobe malfunction? Thankfully, it was just a slight issue, and one of the on-stage presenters helped fix her gown as the two-time Academy Award-winning actress decided to make light of the mishap.

"Oh boy, my dress is broken. I think it happened during 'I'm Just Ken,' I'm pretty sure," she said while shaking a finger. After seeing Stone and Ryan Gosling's high-energy meeting in the crowd for Gosling's Oscars performance, it's easy to see how the Poor Things star may have busted a seam or two.

Emma Stone accepts the Lead Actress award for "Poor Things" onstage during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California.

Presenters Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Yeoh, and Charlize Theron did try to fix Stone's slight mishap while on stage.

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Emma Stone accepts the Lead Actress award for "Poor Things" onstage during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California.

Stone says the mishap happened during Ryan Gosling's performance of 'I'm Just Ken.'

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Emma Stone accepts the Lead Actress award for "Poor Things" onstage during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California.

Stone sang her praises for her fellow Best Actress nominees during her acceptance speech.

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Stone, whose Oscars beauty look was very on-brand, might we add, got a bit tearful during her acceptance speech as she praised her fellow nominees and thanked Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos. "The other night I was panicking, as you can kind of see, it happens a lot, that maybe something like this could happen, and Yargos said to me, please take yourself out of it," she said. "He was right because it's not about me. It's about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts and that is the best part of making movies is all of us together."

Emma Stone accepts the Lead Actress award for "Poor Things" onstage during the 96th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 10, 2024 in Hollywood, California.

Stone got tearful as she thanked her family and daughter during her acceptance speech.

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Stone went on to thank her family, her husband, and "most importantly," her daughter. "I love you bigger than the whole sky, my girl," she said, before reminding the audience not to look at her broken dress.

We have to thank Stone for leaving us both chuckling and crying as we close out this year's Academy Awards. 

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Brooke Knappenberger is the Associate Commerce Editor at Marie Claire, where she writes across the board from fashion and beauty to books and celebrities. As a pop culture junkie, Brooke obsessively consumes and writes about the latest movie releases, streaming TV shows, and celebrity scandals. She has over three years of experience writing on fashion, beauty, and entertainment and her work has appeared on Looper, NickiSwift, The Sun US, and Vox Magazine of Columbia, Missouri. Brooke obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism with an emphasis on Magazine Editing and has a minor in Textile and Apparel Management.