{"id":439522,"date":"2026-02-22T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439522\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:26:10","slug":"emma-stone-names-the-greatest-scenes-in-cinema-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439522\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Stone names the greatest scenes in cinema history"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Emma<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Searchlight Pictures)<\/p>\n

Sat 21 February 2026 19:15, UK <\/p>\n

Emma Stone<\/a> might have started out in a string of comedies, seemingly priming herself for success as a leading figure in pretty accessible Hollywood films, but she soon showed herself to be so much more than that with the help of some rather subversive choices.<\/p>\n

While she\u2019ll forever cherish the experiences she had working on the likes of The Amazing Spider-Man and Easy A<\/a>, these movies are a far cry from the surreal titles she has attached herself to in recent years, thanks to a recurring partnership with Yorgos Lanthimos. The pair just seem to understand one another perfectly, resulting in unforgettable performances in The Favourite and, of course, Poor Things, which won Stone an Oscar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She can do musicals \u2013 whether we liked it or not, La La Land was everywhere in 2016 \u2013 but she can also transform into someone unrecognisable, as Bugonia recently demonstrated. You\u2019ll struggle to find someone as versatile as Stone these days, and it\u2019s no surprise that she has already begun racking up Oscar nominations with enough speed to make Meryl Streep a bit nervous. <\/p>\n

I mean, the 76-year-old star has 21 Oscar nominations to her name, and Stone, who is 40 years her junior, already has seven. Now, I\u2019m not trying to pit the two women against each other, but it seems like Stone could easily come for Streep\u2019s crown as the most-nominated woman in Hollywood if her career keeps going at the rate that it does.<\/p>\n

Clearly, Stone knows what makes a good film \u2013\u00a0an Oscar-winning one, even \u2013 so it\u2019s no surprise that the two scenes she has identified as some of the greatest in Hollywood are stone-cold classics. Stone doesn\u2019t mess about; these picks truly reflect the genius of cinema and have no doubt inspired her to greatness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first is an iconic monologue delivered by Peter Finch in Sidney Lumet\u2019s Network<\/a>, which unsurprisingly won the actor an Oscar (although he sadly died before he was able to receive it). Asked to pick out a role that \u2018reminds [her] of what great acting is\u2019 by Entertainment Weekly, the actor said, \u201cPeter Finch in Network. The scene where he\u2019s in the raincoat, and he comes storming in and gives that speech on camera. That is great acting.\u201d<\/p>\n

His character, Howard Beale, becomes increasingly erratic as he breaks down on live TV, and the speech in which he exclaims \u201cI\u2019m as mad as hell, and I\u2019m not going to take this anymore!\u201d has gone down as one of the most iconic in cinema history. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe just was that part. That\u2019s one of those things where you realise that some roles are destined for certain actors. He was meant to play Howard Beale,\u201d Stone concluded. <\/p>\n

The other scene that Stone cherishes takes us back to the 1930s. The actor adores a good Charlie Chaplin movie, but in particular, she\u2019s obsessed with City Lights. \u201cMy favourite ending of all time is in City Lights, the Charlie Chaplin movie. I just watch the ending of that movie alone on YouTube and cry,\u201d she once told Interview. <\/p>\n

The romantic film, which sees Chaplin\u2019s Tramp character fall for a blind flower seller, has an ending that Stone always goes back to. \u201cHe is staring at her in this way that you\u2019ve just never seen\u2014someone with so much love in their eyes. And she says, \u2018You?\u2019 And he nods. And he says, \u2018You can see now?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd she says, \u2018Yes, I can see now.\u2019 And he smiles, and then it just fades out. It\u2019s the most beautiful thing,\u201d Stone explained, communicating her love for one of cinema\u2019s most undeniably poignant endings.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Searchlight Pictures) Sat 21 February 2026 19:15, UK Emma Stone might have started out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32329,29143,96,2839,710,160042,160043,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-charlie-chaplin","tag-emma-stone","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-network","tag-peter-finch","tag-sidney-lumet","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}