EMMA STONE
(BEST ACTRESS)
The La La Land star is working on a new kind of footwork: She’ll star as world No. 1 tennis player Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes alongside Steve Carell as Bobby Riggs, the former male champ. The film, expected this year, explores the famed 1973 tennis match between the two, which stemmed from Riggs’ claim that the women’s game was inferior.
Stone then goes 18th-century British royal in The Favourite, from The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos, playing Queen Anne’s courtier Abigail Masham.