Stone gained wider recognition as Gwen Stacy in the 2012 superhero film "The Amazing Spider-Man" and its 2014 sequel. She went on to voice the lead female character Eep in "The Croods" (2013) and its . Stone was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a recovering drug addict in the black comedy "Birdman" (2014), and her Broadway debut came in a revival of the musical "Cabaret" (2014–2015). For her performance as an aspiring actress in the romantic musical "La La Land" (2016), Stone won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She portrayed Billie Jean King in the biographical sports film "Battle of the Sexes" (2017) and Abigail Masham in the historical comedy-drama "The Favourite" (2018), receiving a third Academy Award nomination for the latter. She has since starred in the Netflix dark comedy miniseries "Maniac" (2018) and the comedy sequel "" (2019).