Emma Stone Drives Netflix Top Movies Right Now With Three Award Winners
Netflix top movies right now includes three award-winning films for June 12-14: Poor Things, Another Round, and The Theory of Everything. For viewers deciding what to stream, the draw is simple — each title arrives with major awards already attached, and one of them gives Emma Stone an Oscar-winning lead performance to anchor the weekend slate.
Poor Things and Emma Stone
Poor Things won four Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress for Emma Stone. Yorgos Lanthimos’s sci-fi film centers on Bella Baxter, who is brought back to life by Dr. Godwin Baxter with her unborn child's brain, then leaves home with Duncan Wedderburn. That combination of awards and premise makes it the most decorated title in the group, and the one most likely to pull in viewers who track awards seasons as closely as streaming menus.
Stone’s win gives the film a clear selling point beyond its title count. Poor Things also pairs her with Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo, which gives Netflix a prestige-heavy option for the weekend without asking subscribers to dig for it.
Another Round on Netflix
Another Round won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and was nominated for Best Director for Thomas Vinterberg. The Danish comedy follows four high school teachers, including Mads Mikkelsen, as they test whether maintaining a steady 0.05% blood alcohol level through the workday can change their lives. Its placement alongside Poor Things gives Netflix U.S. a second award winner with a very different tone and a built-in critical pedigree.
The film’s premise is the friction point. It is a comedy, but the experiment at its center gives it a sharper edge than a typical weekend recommendation, which is exactly why it still travels well in a streaming lineup years after its awards run.
Stephen Hawking on Netflix
The Theory of Everything adds a biographical counterweight to the list. The film tells the true story of physicist Stephen Hawking, begins during his years at Cambridge University, and shows him receiving a diagnosis of motor neuron disease, also called ALS, after doctors predicted he had only a few years to live. Eddie Redmayne plays Hawking, while Felicity Jones plays Jane Wilde, the literature student who becomes his love interest.
That makes the weekend trio unusually broad for one platform window: a sci-fi awards winner, a Danish comedy built around an alcohol experiment, and a biographical film about a scientist facing a life-changing diagnosis. For a viewer looking at Netflix U.S. between June 12 and 14, the practical move is to start with the award winner that best fits the mood — because all three have already done the hard work of earning their reputations.
