Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos are no strangers to having their movies dominate awards conversations. The Favourite and Poor Things both received 10 or more Oscar nominations, and each won at least one Academy Award. That put tremendous expectations on their new film, Bugonia , to deliver.

After not getting any Oscar reception for Lanthimos' anthology film Kinds of Kindness , the duo are back in 2025 with Bugonia , an English-language remake of the South Korean title Save the Green Planet! , where Stone plays a high-profile CEO who is kidnapped under the belief she's an alien.

From the moment the movie was announced, Oscar expectations have been heavy. That's a big reason why the title was brought to the 82nd Venice International Film Festival to have its world premiere

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