Emma Stone changes and prepares for round three.
The two-time Oscar winner stepped out on the Oscars 2026 red carpet at the Dolby Theater on Sunday wearing a sparkling, ethereal Louis Vuitton dress with cap sleeves and a plunging back.
The delicate bead design took 600 hours to create.
The 37-year-old “Bugonia” actress wore her auburn hair slicked back in delicate curls near her chin and added sparkle to her look with matching Repossi diamond earrings and stacked rings.
Stone is no stranger to the Oscar carpet. She won her first Best Actress award in 2017 for a gold-beaded Givenchy couture dress, and her second in 2024 for a mint green Louis Vuitton design with a seashell-inspired peplum.
Her last time on the podium was due to an unforgettable wardrobe malfunction when her zipper broke on the way to the podium. “My dress ripped. I think it happened during ‘I’m Just Ken,'” she joked to the audience, criticizing Ryan Gosling’s performance.
Tonight, she’s up for Best Actress for her role as a pharmaceutical company CEO in Yorgos Lanthimos’ sci-fi thriller. This is his fourth collaboration with the director and his seventh Oscar nomination overall. This makes her the youngest woman in Academy Award history to receive seven nominations, surpassing Meryl Streep, who won the award in 1988 at age 38.
Stone shaved her head for the “Bugonia” role, but her bob grew back, prompting stylist Petra Flannery to lean into a season of quiet dressing to match.
At the Golden Globe Awards in January, Stone walked the carpet in a butter yellow Louis Vuitton crop top paired with a beaded fringe skirt. She chose a black Louis Vuitton halter column dress for the BAFTAs, and in a rarity from the French house, of which she has been an ambassador since 2017, she appeared at the Producers Guild Awards in a sleek Calvin Klein Collection dress.
At the SAG Actor Awards earlier this month, she transformed a lilac beaded Louis Vuitton cardigan into the season’s most flattering layering piece.
If Stone wins tonight against Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Rose Byrne (I Have Feet), Kate Hudson (Song San Bleu) and Renate Reinsv (Sentimental Value), she will join Frances McDormand as the only living women to win three Best Actress Oscars, second only to Katharine Hepburn’s four.
