How Emma Stone quietly became a Hollywood super producer
Emma Stone has already won two Oscars for acting, but she might be headed for an even more illustrious and industry-changing career as a producer.
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Thu 23 January 2025 21:45, UK
Hollywood has had a sexism problem since its inception. All you have to do to recognise how skewed the industry is toward men is to look at the number of female directors who have been nominated for Academy Awards. Between the Oscarsâ inception in 1929 and 2024, only eight women have been nominated for directing, and only three have won. More than half of those nominations have happened in the last decade, suggesting there is movement in the right direction, but cinema is still woefully behind on gender parity even compared to other industries.
While providing more female directors with resources is one way to start tackling the problem, there is another route that some are already taking: producing. Over the past decade, a number of A-list female actors have been eschewing the common route set by male actors of trying their hand at a showy directing gig in favour of starting their own production companies.
Way back in 2000, Reese Witherspoon founded Type A Films, which went on to produce the Oscar-nominated movies Gone Girl and Wild, as well as the hit television series Big Little Lies. Margot Robbie turned her hand to producing in 2014 when she founded the company LuckyChap Entertainment. There, sheâs produced a slew of critically acclaimed hits, including Barbie, Saltburn, and My Old Ass, all of which were directed by women.
Now, we can add Emma Stone to the list. Since founding her production company Fruit Tree in 2020, the actor has quietly become a major player in Hollywood, marking herself as one of the most savvy producers working today. So far, the company has produced five films, all of which have been critically acclaimed. This year, Stone might even earn her sixth Oscar nomination for producing two of the most celebrated films of 2024.
The first film produced by Fruit Tree was Jesse Eisenbergâs 2022 directorial debut When You Finish Saving the World. âI met Emma when we were doing Zombieland,â Eisenberg told People in 2024. âI remember just thinking, âThis is, like, the smartest person Iâve ever met.'â
When she signed on to produce his first feature, he was even more impressed. âSheâs an incredible producer,â he said. When Fig Tree backed his latest film, the highly acclaimed comedy A Real Pain, Stone proved pivotal. âShe read the script and gave me the best note I got on my script of a thing that I could rewrite,â he said. âSheâs on marketing calls with the movie studio about how to present this movie to the world.â Ultimately, he said, âWe all just kind of sit back and let her, you know, take charge.â
In addition to A Real Pain, which has earned rave reviews across the board and already won a Golden Globe for Kieren Culkin, Stone also produced another of last yearâs buzziest releases, Jane Schoenbrunâs I Saw the TV Glow. A powerfully melancholy exploration of dysphoria and coming-of-age, the film won equally stellar reviews from critics.
As a trans director, Schoenbrun said that she felt particularly supported by Stone and her production partners. âThey had essentially said to me, âWe just want to use our power,'â Schoenbrun told The Hollywood Reporter. âLike, this is Emma Stone: âWe want to use my power to help people like you make movies.â And I was like, âCool, Iâll take your power!'â
Stone, Schoenbrun said, played an active role in the development process: âShe got on all of the Zoom pitches, and having Emma Stone in the room advocating for you does help you seem like an adult and not a weirdo.â
So far, the focus of Fig Tree appears to be mid-budget films, exactly the sector of the movie industry that has been nearly killed off in recent years by franchises. By filling the increasingly empty chasm between scrappy low-budget indies and big-budget studio fare, Stone might just save the film industry.
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