{"id":35135,"date":"2025-08-31T19:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35135\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:36:07","slug":"emma-stone-jesse-plemons-likely-headed-back-to-oscars-for-bugonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35135\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons Likely Headed Back to Oscars for Bugonia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe team that brought you 2018\u2019s The Favourite, 2023\u2019s Poor Things and 2024\u2019s Kinds of Kindness \u2014 filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos<\/a><\/strong> and actress\/producer Emma Stone<\/a><\/strong> \u2014\u00a0has struck again, this time with Bugonia<\/a>, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Aug. 28 and has been screening at the Telluride Film Festival over the Labor Day weekend. I caught it on Saturday at the Werner Herzog Theater, and I\u2019m quite confident that, like the daring The Favourite and Poor Things, and unlike the slight Kinds of Kindness, it will be a significant awards season player.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdapted by Will Tracy<\/strong>, a former editor of The Onion who later wrote on Succession and penned 2022\u2019s The Menu, from Jang Joon-hwan<\/strong>\u2018s 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!, Bugonia is an absurdist comedy. It centers on two American oddball cousins (Jesse Plemons<\/a><\/strong> and Aidan Delbis<\/a><\/strong>), one of whom \u201cdoes his own research\u201d and the other of whom follows him deep down a rabbit hole, who team up to kidnap an American corporate titan (Stone) because they believe she is actually an alien intent to destroy the earth. As a massive effort to locate the CEO is mounted, the abductors and the abductee (who is chained up in the basement of the abductors\u2019 home) engage in a battle of wits, with the abductors growing increasingly menacing as the clock ticks toward a lunar eclipse at which they expect her to take them to her leader.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt a time when social isolation, information silos and the deliberate propagation of misinformation in the real world are fueling widespread and dangerous conspiratorial beliefs and real acts of violence, a story like this, with characters like these, seems frighteningly plausible. Though elements of it evoke thoughts of The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror, it also calls to mind dark social satires like 1975\u2019s Dog Day Afternoon and 1976\u2019s Network, the latter of which was name-checked by Stone, during a post-screening Q&A, as a film that seemed sensationalist when it was released, but 50 years later seems stunningly prescient.<\/p>\n

\n\tI think that it\u2019s very possible that members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will appreciate the intent of Bugonia \u2014\u00a0which Focus Features will release in U.S. theaters on Oct. 24 \u2014 and recognize it in a variety of categories, including best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay. The Academy, as it is currently composed, has far less of an aversion to \u201cgenre films\u201d than the organization used to. See: Oscar recognition for 2017\u2019s The Shape of Water, 2019\u2019s Parasite, 2022\u2019s Everything Everywhere All at Once and, yes, Poor Things.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut whatever happens in other categories, I think it\u2019s almost certain that Stone, a four-time Oscar nominee who won best actress for 2016\u2019s La La Land and Poor Things, and Plemons, a best supporting actor Oscar nominee for 2021\u2019s The Power of the Dog, will be nominated for lead acting awards in recognition of performances that required a tremendous level of commitment \u2014 and make a haunting impression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team that brought you 2018\u2019s The Favourite, 2023\u2019s Poor Things and 2024\u2019s Kinds of Kindness \u2014 filmmaker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[27316,27317,27318,434,18,23529,117,19,17,23530,26677,23528],"class_list":{"0":"post-35135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-aidan-delbis","9":"tag-alicia-silverstone","10":"tag-bugonia","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-emma-stone","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jesse-plemons","18":"tag-telluride-2025","19":"tag-yorgos-lanthimos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}