Emma Stone’s Poor Things passes a massive milestone, obtaining 11 nominations ahead of the Academy Awards.
The second collaboration between director Yorgos Lanthimos, screenwriter Tony McnNamara and actor Emma Stone for the movie, Poor Things, is riff a on Frankenstein that follows a woman named Bella Baxter, who gets reanimated. Unlike in most movies, Cutler’s character is brought back, not with the mind of a monster but rather that of an infant and embarks on a whirlwind adventure filled with self-discovery through Victorian London, undergoing a fantastic evolution.
Other than Emma Stone’s lead role in the movie, she is joined by others such as Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, Kathryn Hunter, Jerrod Carmichael, Margaret Qualley, and Willem Dafoe. Over two months after the release of Poor Things, the movie has passed a major milestone, passing the coveted $100 million mark globally. Becoming the highest-grossing movie of Lanthimos’s career.
Not only achieving this milestone of reaching this mark, but also achieving it ahead of the 2024 Oscars next month, where the film is up for 11 nominations, some of which include Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and a few personal nominations for actors, director, and screenwriter, having achieved this milestone on a modest 35 million dollars budget, it has solidified itself as a box office hit.
In terms of total Oscar nominations, Poor Things is the fourth-highest-grossing Best Picture nominee, being second only to Oppenheimer with a significantly smaller budget, by coupling that with the box office success. Poor Things has solidified its place among the upper echelon of 2023 films that connected with both the audiences and critics. Either way, it’s a massive achievement, so fans and actors along with the screenwriter and director can enjoy the reward of the hard work put into the movie.
