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Emma Stone of 鈥淟a La Land鈥� has won the Oscar for best actress for her work portraying aspiring actress Mia in the acclaimed original movie musical.

This was Ms. Stone鈥檚 second Oscar nomination following her nod for best supporting actress for her appearance in the 2014 film 鈥淏irdman.鈥� (She had previously showed off her song-and-dance skills in her appearance as Sally Bowles in the 2014 Broadway revival of 鈥淐abaret.鈥�)聽

Stone's co-star Ryan Gosling portrays a jazz pianist who meets Mia. The two fall in love in contemporary Los Angeles.

鈥淟a La Land鈥� tied the record set by films 鈥淭itanic鈥� and 鈥淎ll About Eve鈥� for the number of Oscar nominations received by one movie, with all three receiving 14. 鈥淟a La Land鈥� is also nominated best picture and director Damien Chazelle won the best director prize.聽

Stone previously appeared in other movies with Mr. Gosling, including the 2011 romantic comedy 鈥淐razy, Stupid, Love.鈥澛�

In , Stone said, "What [Mr. Chazelle] was going for was really exciting and enticing, because I love the originality of it and what it was paying homage to. It was really cool and interesting to be a part of, and, equally, scary 鈥� because if the tone wasn鈥檛 cohesive from the smaller scenes into these big cinemascope musical numbers, I didn鈥檛 know how it would turn out. But that鈥檚 also the most exciting thing 鈥� equal parts, 鈥榃ho knows?鈥� and 鈥楲et's do it!鈥� 鈥澛�

Chazelle said the fact that Stone and Gosling had appeared onscreen together before intrigued him.

鈥淚 like that we had seen them before in a way that kind of made them feel like an old Hollywood pairing where William Powell and Myrna Loy would do those movies together; Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, obviously; Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy,鈥� he said in . 鈥淭here would be these pairs that you would expect to see in cinema and you kind of felt that you knew them. I liked that because it gave us a starting point to begin to unravel it a little bit and maybe show new sides to it.鈥澛�