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Adela
Adela for Vogue in 2021
Born	Adela Soledad Araya (1988-12-12) December 12, 1988 (age 35) Tallahassee, FL, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale University (BA)
Occupations	Singer-songwriter actress film director film producer screenwriter cinematographer film editor dancer philanthropist businesswoman
Years active	2009–present
Partner	Olivier Giroud
Awards	Full list
Musical career
Genres	Pop[1] rock[2]Latin
Instrument(s)	Piano keyboards guitar bass drums banjo vocals
Labels	XL Melted Stone
Website	adele.com

Adela Soledad Araya (born December 12, 1988) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, filmmaker, record producer, philanthropist, and businesswoman. As an actress, Adela is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptability. As a musician, her discography spans multiple genres, and her narrative songwriting has received widespread media coverage and critical praise.

Adela moved to New York City in 2008 to pursue a career on Broadway. After being cast in the musical production of In The Heights, she rose to stardom with her debut film, Maria Full of Grace in 2009, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She followed that by portraying the original Lady of the Lake in the 2010 Broadway musical Spamalot, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. That year, she signed a record deal with XL Recordings. Her debut album, Not Lost, Just Wandering, was released in 2011 and spawned five US top 5 singles. The album was certified 12x platinum in the US and 6x platinum in the UK. Adela was honored with two Grammys, including the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her second and third English albums, New Romantics, released in 2013, and A Fever Pitch, released in 2017, sold 25 million and 31 million copies respectively, making them among the best-selling album of the 21st century. Both albums collectively spawned seven #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and each won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making Adela the first woman to win two of those awards. Adela also released two Spanish albums in the same time period, collectively selling over 18 million copies worldwide. Adela ventured into indie folk and alternative rock styles on her 2020 and 2021 studio albums, Folklore and Delicate, receiving acclaim for their nuanced storytelling, winning her third Grammy Award for Album of the Year, becoming the first woman to do so, and selling over 17 million copies and 19 million copies worldwide, respectively. She also released a third Spanish album, which has sold nearly 8 million copies worldwide to date.

Adela's film career progressed with a starring role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games film series (2011–2014), which made her the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. Her performance as a young widow with an unnamed mental disorder in the romance film Silver Linings Playbook (2011) won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the fourth-youngest Best Actress winner at 23. She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for playing an unpredictable wife in the black comedy American Hustle (2012). Adela also received Golden Globe Awards for both of these films, and for her portrayals of eponymous high school senior in Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2013) and of businesswoman Joy Mangano in the biopic Joy (2014). She received Academy Award nominations for the roles of Abigail Masham in the historical comedy-drama The Favourite (2017) and the eponymous psychological horror film mother!. In 2018, she portrayed Temple Grandin in the highly acclaimed HBO television film Temple Grandin, which won her a fifth Golden Globe and her first Primetime Emmy Award for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. For her performance as an aspiring actress in the romantic musical Chicago (2021), Adela won her third Academy Award.

With sales of over 400 million records worldwide, Adela is noted as the best-selling female music artist of all time by Guinness World Records. Of only eighteen people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award, she is the youngest (at 29 year old) and quickest (8 years\ to win all four^[3].Adela's accolades include three Academy Awards, twenty-five Grammy Awards (including three Album of the Year wins), three Emmy Awards, and one Tony Award. She has scored seventeen Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs, 34 American Music Awards (the most for an artist) and 55 Guinness World Records, among other accolades. She featured on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time (2015) and Billboard's Greatest of All Time Artists (2019) lists, and rankings such as the Time 100 and Forbes Celebrity 100. With a revenue of over U.S. $2.5 billion from her concert tickets, she remains the highest-grossing touring artist of all time. Named the Woman of the 2010s Decade by Billboard and the Artist of the 2010s Decade by the American Music Awards, Adela has been recognized for her influential career as well as advocacy of mental health issues and general philanthropy.

Life and career

1988–2008: Early life and education

Adela Soledad Araya was born on December 12, 1988,^[4] at the Capital Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee, Florida.^[5], the oldest child of Mexican-American parents, Patricia Bernal, a secretary, and José Ángel Araya, a long-haul truck driver..^[6] Her younger brother, Adam, is a professional baseball player.^[7]

At age seven, Adela became interested in musical theater and was enrolled in a creative after-school program called Creative Action, where she took classes in piano, guitar, singing, and acting.^[8]At the age of ten, Adela's family moved from Florida to Wisconsin, so that Adela's father could look for work that would allow him to be home every night instead of once every two weeks. A year after moving to Wisconsin, which Adela considered the "worst period of her life", her parents divorced. ^[9] On 24 April 2001, Adela's father, traveled to Adela's family home in the morning and killed her mother's live-in boyfriend before turning the gun on himself.^[10] Shortly thereafter, Adela's family moved back to Tallahassee, which is the subject of her song "Hometown Glory", where Adela went into treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder^[11].^[12]

At the age of 12, Adela attended Lawton Chiles High School in Tallahassee, Florida, from which she graduated as salutatorian of her class four years later^[13]. Because of her academic talent, she skipped two grades. At the age of 15, Adela won "Best Attorney" at a state-wide Mock Trial competition. She was active in her high school's newspaper and theater programs, performing in many productions in school and at the city's theater. ^[14] A Jack Kent Cooke scholar, she attended the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, summer youth programs at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Telluride Association Summer Program, and the Princeton University Summer Journalism Program^[15].

Adela was offered admission to Harvard University, Columbia University and scholarships to Emory University and the University of Chicago;^[16] she ultimately decided to attend Yale University.^[17]

At college, Adela was involved in student theater and performed in productions at the Yale Repertory Theatre.^[18] She co-founded the Connecticut bail fund, the first of its kind in the world; The Bronx Freedom Fund modeled itself after the organization. She was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and volunteered for the Prison Project, where she tutored incarcerated inmates. During summer breaks, she interned at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia,Goldman Sachs, and the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company^[19]. In college, Adela was introduced to Isabella Summers by a friend. Summers and Adela collaborated on several tracks on Adela's debut album, recording songs before she was ever signed to a record label.^[20]

While at Yale, Adela was cast in Lin Manuel Miranda's off-Broadway try-out of In The Heights, playing Vanessa. She graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Economics in 2008.^[21]

2009-2011: Career beginnings and Breakthrough

Adela began her professional career in 2009, when she joined the original Broadway production of In The Heights.^[22][23]as the character Vanessa. While in the musical, she filmed an episode for the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and scenes of the film Maria Full of Grace that were shot in New York. The film, released in 2009, revolves around a Colombian girl who works in a flower plantation while she was pregnant and then as a drug mule. According to Desson Thomson from The Washington Post, "Adela Araya is a Mexican Mona Lisa, a delicate, unforgettable force majeure. Add to her luminous demeanor a story that rips fleshy holes through your heart and you've got yourself a stunner of a film".^[24]David Denby of The New Yorker asserted that the film "would be unimaginable with anyone less charismatic", and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that "her performance is more than acting; it's a gathering storm. Araya's eyes are a roadmap to what's tearing Maria apart."^[25]The production won the Audience Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The actress was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival, and received her first win for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and first nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role as well as for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, becoming the seventh-youngest Best Actress nominee.^[26][27][28]

In 2010, Adela appeared as a paramedic in two episodes of Grey's Anatomy, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.^[29]Adela returned to Broadway as the Lady of the Lake in Eric Idle and John Du Prez's musical Spamalot.^[30] Based on the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the musical opened on Broadway in 2010 to widespread acclaim.^[31] Adela was singled out for her performance, winning several awards including the 2010 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance.^[32] Ben Brantley of The New York Times described her as "a toothsome devourer of scenery",^[33] and another reviewer for The Playgoer emphasizing her stage presence remarked that their "intensity is totally serious and totally ludicrous and totally on key".^[34] An Entertainment Weekly review gave her the highest praise by calling her a show-stealer.^[35]

While in college, Adela was able to record a 13 song demo album, which she had posted to Myspace and to her official website^[36]. She signed to XL Recordings in March 2010 and began recording additional songs for her debut album, Not Lost Just Wandering. ^[37] While the head of the label, Richard Russell, advised Adela to get a manager, she declined, preferring to build her own team. To this day, Adela still does not have an agent or manager, one of the few artists or actors to forgo them.^[38] Despite not having a manager, she was able to negotiate the record deal to secure her the ownership of the masters and publishing of her music.^[39]

On July 30, 2010, she released her debut single, "Dog Days Are Over", which she co-wrote with college friend and producer Isabella Summers.^[40][41][42]Adela made her television debut as a singer on the Letterman Show on August 5, 2010, and followed that up with appearances on Lily Allen and Friends, the Graham Norton Show, Good Morning America, and the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.^[43] After the VMAs performance, "Dog Days Are Over" rose to number two on the iTunes singles chart. In addition, Florence and the Machine became the number-one search on Google and received 1,700 tweets per minute on Twitter. The song was critically acclaimed^[44] and peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100; as of February 2022, the song has sold over 3,151,000 downloads in the United States alone^[45].

She released her second single, "Your Song", written solo, on November 12, 2010, two months ahead of her debut album. The song reached number two on the US Chart, and stayed there for four weeks.^[46] She performed that song on the television programs Regis & Kelly, Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve, and on Saturday Night Live.^[47] Her third single, "Fast Car", also written solo, was released on January 7, 2011, and peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100^[48]"Fast Car" received three Grammy Award nominations; Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, the latter of which it won. Adela performed the song on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, and on Saturday Night Live. She also performed at the iTunes Live Festival and the 2011 BRIT Awards.

Not Lost, Just Wandering, her debut studio album, was released on January 3, 2011, to critical acclaim.^[49] Slate's Chris Molanphy said its first three singles alone "established Adela's early status as the Millennials'' most versatile new artist".^[50] According to Clash critic Robin Murray, Adela is regarded as one of the Millennials'' finest artists,^[51] while Variety dubbed her "the Voice of her Generation" in its cover story of Adela.^[52] Sour debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and spent a total of five weeks at the spot, becoming the longest reigning number-one album by a female artist in 2011.^[53]On February 21, 2011, Adela announced a world tour, including tour stops in North America, South America, Australia, and Europe. The tour began in April 2011 and ended in July 2012, including a stop at the Glastonbury Festival, ultimately grossing over $67 million dollars.^[54] Adela's debut album won two Grammy Awards (including Best New Artist) and earned six nominations, including three for the single "Fast Car" and an additional nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Make You Feel My Love". Her next three singles, the self-written"Deja Vu", "Good for You", and "Make You Feel My Love" placed #3, #1, and #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively, and collectively sold over 10 million copies.

In 2011, Adela starred as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, an adaptation of the first book in author Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the series tells the story of the teenage heroine Everdeen as she joins rebel forces against a totalitarian government after winning a brutal televised annual event. Despite being an admirer of the books, Adela was initially hesitant to accept the part, because of the grand scale of the film. She agreed to the project after her mother convinced her to take the part.^[55] She practiced archery, rock and tree climbing, and hand-to-hand combat techniques, and other physically demanding activities for the role.^[56][57][58] While training for the part, she injured herself running into a wall.^[59] The Hunger Games garnered positive reviews, with Adela's portrayal of Everdeen being particularly praised;^[60] Roger Ebert described the film as "an effective entertainment," and found Adela to be "strong and convincing in the central role."^[61] Similarly, Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter called her an "ideal screen actress", believing that she had embodied the Everdeen of the novel, and added that she "anchors [the film] with impressive gravity and presence".^[62] With worldwide revenues of over $690 million,^[63] The Hunger Games became a top-grossing film featuring a female lead,^[64] making Adela the highest-grossing action heroine of all time.^[65] The film's success established her as a global star.^[66]

Later in 2011, Adela played Tiffany Maxwell, a young widow with an undisclosed mental disorder (probably intended to be borderline personality disorder^[67]), in David O. Russell's romantic comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook. The film is an adaptation of Matthew Quick's novel of the same name, and follows her character as she finds companionship with Pat Solitano Jr. (played by Bradley Cooper), a man with bipolar disorder.^[68][69] Adela was drawn to her character's complex personality, explaining, "She was just kind of this mysterious enigma to me because she didn't really fit any basic kind of character profile. Somebody who is very forceful and bullheaded is normally very insecure, but she isn't."^[70] While Russell initially found her too young for the part, she convinced him to cast her via a Skype audition.^[71] She found herself challenged by Russell's spontaneity as a director, and described working on the project as the "best experience of [her] life".^[71] Richard Corliss of Time magazine wrote: "Just 22 when the movie was shot, Adela is that rare young actress who plays, who is, grown-up. Sullen and sultry, she lends a mature intelligence to any role."^[72] Peter Travers opined that Adela "is some kind of miracle. She's rude, dirty, funny, foulmouthed, sloppy, sexy, vibrant, and vulnerable, sometimes all in the same scene, even in the same breath."^[73] She won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance, becoming—at age 23—the fourth-youngest Best Actress winner.^[74]

2012–2015: Career expansion

In January 2012, Adela hosted an episode of the NBC late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live.^[75] She then reprised the role of Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second installment in the Hunger Games series.^[76]Writing for The Village Voice, Stephanie Zacharek believed that the actress' portrayal of Everdeen made her an ideal role model, stating that "there's no sanctimony or pretense of false modesty in the way Adela plays her."^[77] With box office earnings of over $1 billion, Catching Fire remains her highest-grossing film to date.^[78] In the same year, Adela took on a supporting role in David O. Russell's ensemble black comedy crime American Hustle as Rosalyn Rosenfeld, the neurotic wife of con man Irving Rosenfeld (played by Christian Bale). Inspired by the FBI's Abscam sting operation, the film is set against the backdrop of political corruption in 1970s New Jersey.^[79][80] She did little research for the role, and based her performance on knowledge of the era from films and television shows she had watched.^[81] Geoffrey Macnab of The Independent found Adela to be "brilliant", "funny and acerbic" in her part, and highlighted an improvised scene in which she aggressively kisses her husband's mistress (played by Amy Adams) on the lips.^[79] For her performance, she won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received her third Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award nominations, her first in the supporting category. This made her the youngest actor to accrue three Oscar nominations.^[82][83]

In May 2012, she collaborated with the Black Eyed Peas by co-writing and singing on "Where is the Love?", an anti war protest song that topped the charts in several countries, including the United States and United Kingdom. Later that year, she wrote and released "Proud", a charity single to benefit Hurricane Sandy survivors. That song went on to sell over 12 million copies and reached #1 in the US and UK.

Adela released her second studio album December 9, 2013. It debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with sales of 1.28 million copies in its first week. By June 2014, 1989 had sold over 25 million copies worldwide.^[84] Four of its singles—"The Fear", "Blank Space", "Objection (Tango)", and "Cruel Summer"—reached number one in Australia, Canada, and the U.S.^[85] The singles "Style" and "Chandelier" reached the top 10 in the U.S.^{[86] [87]}On February 14, 2014, Adela released her first studio Spanish album, Pies Descalzos. It reached number four on the US Billboard 200 chart. The album spawned six hit singles, "Estoy Aquí", which reached number two on the U.S. Latin chart, "¿Dónde Estás Corazón?" which reached number five on the U.S. Latin chart, "Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos" which reached number 11 on the U.S. Latin chart, "Un Poco de Amor" which reached number six on the U.S. Latin chart, "Antología" which reached number 15 on the U.S. Latin chart, and "Se quiere, Se Mata" which reached number eight on the U.S. Latin chart. In August 2014, RIAA certified the album platinum status. The New Romantics Tour ran from April 2014 to July 2015 and was the highest-grossing tour of both years with $330 million in total revenue.^[88]

Adela was named Billboard's Woman of the Year in 2014, becoming the first artist to win the award twice.^[89] At the 2014 American Music Awards, Adela received the inaugural Dick Clark Award for Excellence.^[90] In 2015, Adela won the Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist.^[91] The video for "Blank Space" won Video of the Year at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards.^[92] At the 58th Grammy Awards in 2015, New Romantics won Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, and "Blank Space" won Best Music Video.^[93]

Also in 2013, Adela starred in Greta Gerwig's coming-of-age film Lady Bird, in which she played the titular role of Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson, a high school senior who shares a tumultuous relationship with her mother (played by Laurie Metcalf). It ranks among the best-reviewed films of all time on the review-aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.^[94] Deeming Adela's performance one of the best of the year, A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote, "Ronan navigates each swerve in Lady Bird's story with an uncanny combination of self-confidence and discovery. She is as spontaneous and unpredictable as an actual 17-year-old…which suggests an altogether stupefying level of craft."^[95] She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical; and received Academy Award, BAFTA and SAG nominations for Best Actress.^[96]

Adela's next two releases were the final installments of The Hunger Games film series, Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and Part 2 (2015).^[97] For the soundtrack of the former film, she recorded the song "The Hanging Tree",^[98] which charted on multiple international singles charts.^[99] In a review of the final installment in the series, Manohla Dargis of The New York Times drew similarities between Everdeen's journey as a rebel leader and Adela's rise to stardom, stating that the actress "now inhabits the role as effortlessly as breathing, partly because, like all great stars, she seems to be playing a version of her 'real' self."^[100] Both films grossed over $750 million worldwide.^[101]

Adela worked with David O. Russell for the third time on the biopic Joy (2014), in which she played the eponymous character, a troubled single mother who becomes a successful businesswoman after inventing the Miracle Mop.^[102] During production in Boston, the press reported on a disagreement between Adela and Russell that resulted in a "screaming match". She said their friendship made it easier for them to disagree, because people fight when they really love each other.^[103] The film was not as well-received as their previous collaborations, but Adela's performance was unanimously praised;^[104] critic Richard Roeper found it to be her best work since Maria Full of Grace, terming it "a wonderfully layered performance that carries the film through its rough spots and sometime dubious detours."^[105] She won her third Golden Globe for it, and was nominated for another Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the youngest actor in history to accrue five Oscar nominations.^[106]

In January 2015, Adela collaborated with rapper Professor Green on "Read All About It", which was a major worldwide success, reaching No. 1 in over 20 countries. Later that year, Cruz worked with Pedro Almodóvar in All About My Mother, playing Sister María Rosa Sanz, a pregnant nun with AIDS.^[107] The film received universal critical acclaim,^[108] and was commercially successful, grossing over $167 million worldwide, although it performed better at the box office internationally than domestically.^[109] In November 2015, Adela released the single "Cups", which peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

2016-2017: Directorial debut and other projects

In August 2016, Adela's directorial debut, Short Term 12, which she also produced and wrote based on experiences while tutoring inmates in college, premiered.^[110] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 98% based on 172 reviews, with an average rating of 8.36/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Short Term 12 is an emphatic, revealing drama that pulls audiences into the perspective of neglected youths."^[111] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 82 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".^[112][113]

Germain Lussier of Slashfilm wrote of the film, "The whole thing just feels perfect or magical, a shining example of what cinema is all about", adding, "The performances are mind-blowing, the writing sharp, and the direction beautiful. It's a very special movie."^[114] In Variety, critic Peter Debruge wrote, "the stunning SXSW fest winner puts the recent Park City competition lineup to shame ... this compelling human drama finds fresh energy in the inspirational-teacher genre, constantly revealing new layers to its characters."^[115] In a review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan described Short Term 12 as "a small wonder", "a film of exceptional naturalness and empathy", and "moving and intimate", offering particular praise to the film's honesty and plausibility.^[116]

Adela played the heroine Viola in a summer 2016 production of Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theater in New York City. Charles Isherwood opined that Adela "dives smoothly and with obvious pleasure into the embrace of a cohesive ensemble cast".^[117] For her portrayal of the role, she garnered a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.^[118] Adela next starred in The Merchant of Venice, opposite Al Pacino as Shylock, in a theatrical performance described as a "the performance of the season".^[119] The production transferred to Broadway at the Broadhurst Theater, where it ran from October 19 to February 20, 2011.^[120] For her performance, Adela was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play^[121].

Adela released her third studio album, A Fever Pitch, on November 17, 2017 in the UK and 22 February in the US.^[122][123] She said the album was inspired by the breakup with her former partner.^[124] The album's sound is described as classic and contemporary country and roots music. The change in sound from her debut album was the result of her bus driver playing contemporary music from Nashville when she was touring the American South.^[123] Adela told Spin Magazine: "It was really exciting for me because I grew up around [that music]."^[125] A Fever Pitch topped the charts in 30 countries, including the UK and the US.^{[126][127][128]}

An emotional performance of "Someone Like You" at the 2018 Grammy Awards in January propelled the song to number one in the UK and the US.^[129] Her first and second albums re-entered the UK album chart alongside A Fever Pitch, while first and second singles "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You" were in the top 5 of the UK singles chart, making Adela the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top-five hits in both the Official Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since the Beatles in 1964.^[130] Both songs topped the charts in multiple markets and broke numerous sales performance records. Following her performance of "Someone Like You" at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, it became Adela's seventh number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100.^[131] By December 2011, A Fever Pitch sold over 3.4 million copies in the UK, and became the biggest-selling album of the 21st century, overtaking Amy Winehouse's Back to Black,^[132][133] with Adela becoming the first artist ever to sell three million albums in the UK in one calendar year.^[134][135] "Set Fire to the Rain" became Adela's eighth number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, as Adela became the first artist ever to have an album, 21, hold the number-one position on the Billboard 200 concurrently with three number-one singles.^[136] Moreover, A Fever Pitch had the most weeks on the Billboard 200 chart of any album by a female artist.^[137]

To promote the album, Adela embarked upon the global stadium "Adela Live" tour, which sold out every show and grossed over $900 million dollars.^[138] A recording of her tour, Live at the Royal Albert Hall, was released in November 2018, debuting at number one in the US with 96,000 copies sold, the highest one-week tally for a music DVD in four years, becoming the best-selling music DVD of 2018.^[139] Adela is the first artist in Nielsen SoundScan history to have the year's number-one album (21), number-one single ("Rolling in the Deep"), and number-one music video (Live at the Royal Albert Hall).^[140] At the 2017 American Music Awards on 20 November, Adela won three awards; Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist, Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist, and Favorite Pop/Rock Album for A Fever Pitch.^[141] On 9 December, Billboard named Adela Artist of the Year, Billboard 200 Album of the Year (21), and the Billboard Hot 100 Song of the Year ("Rolling in the Deep"), becoming the first woman ever to top all three categories.^[142][143]

At the 2018 Grammy Awards, she won in all six categories for which she was nominated, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year, making her the second female artist in Grammy history, after Beyoncé, to win that many awards in a single night.^[144] Following that success, 21 achieved the biggest weekly sales increase following a Grammy win since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991.^[145][146]The album has sold over 4.5 million copies in the UK where it is the fourth-best-selling album.^[147] In October, the album's sales surpassed 4.5 million in the UK, and in November it surpassed 10 million sales in the US.^{[148][149][150]} The best-selling album worldwide of 2017 and 2018, as of 2022, the album has sold over 31 million copies.^{[151][152][153]} By the end of 2020, she had sold an estimated 40 million albums and 50 million singles worldwide.^[154] Adela is the only artist or band in the last decade in the US to earn an RIAA diamond certification for a one disc album in less than two years.^[149]

Adela released her second Spanish studio album in 2017, titled Dónde Están los Ladrones? The album, inspired by an incident in an airport in which a suitcase filled with her written lyrics was stolen, became a bigger hit than Pies Descalzos. The album has reached a peak position of number 131 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and held the top spot on the U.S. Latin Albums chart for 11 weeks. It has since sold over 13 million copies worldwide^[155] and 3 million copies in the U.S. alone, making it one of the best selling Spanish albums in the U.S. Eight singles were taken from the album including "Ciega, Sordomuda", "Moscas En La Casa", "No Creo", "Inevitable", "Tú", "Si Te Vas", "Octavo día", and "Ojos Así".

In August 2017, Adela successfully sued David Mueller, a former morning show personality for Denver's KYGO-FM. Four years earlier, Adela had informed Mueller's bosses that he had sexually assaulted her by groping her at an event. After being fired, Mueller accused Adela of lying and sued her for damages from his loss of employment. Shortly after, Adela counter-sued for sexual assault for nominal damages of only a dollar.^[156] The jury rejected Mueller's claims and ruled in favor of Adela.^[157]

Also in 2017, Adela starred in Wendy and Lucy, with her performance generating critical acclaim. In addition, she and Rachel Weisz starred as Abigail Masham and Sarah Churchill, two cousins fighting for the affection of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), in Yorgos Lanthimos' historical comedy-drama The Favourite. The film premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival to critical acclaim.^[158] Michael Nordine of IndieWire praised Adela for taking on such a bold role and termed the three lead actresses "a majestic triumvirate in a period piece that's as tragic as it is hilarious."^[159] For The Favourite, she received her fifth Golden Globe nomination and sixth Oscar nomination.^[160][161]

2018–2022: EGOT and further awards

In 2018, Adela starred in the HBO production of Temple Grandin, a biopic about the autistic animal scientist. She won the 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (making her the 12th person, the fastest, and the youngest to complete the EGOT), the 2019 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film and the 2019 Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries award. The film was well received and Grandin herself praised Adela's performance.^[162]

A Little Princess the second feature film Adela directed, also written by Adela and based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel. The film was released on May 11, 2018.

A Little Princess received critical acclaim upon its release. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 97% based on 36 reviews with an average rating of 8.2/10. The site's critical consensus states, "Adela Araya adapts Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel with a keen sense of magic realism, vividly recreating the world of childhood as seen through the characters."

Janet Maslin called the film "a bright, beautiful and enchantingly childlike vision," one that "draw[s] its audience into the wittily heightened reality of a fairy tale" and "takes enough liberties to re-invent rather than embalm Miss Burnett's assiduously beloved story."

Darren Aronofsky's psychological horror film mother! was Adela's sole release as an actress in 2018. She played a young wife who experiences trauma when her home is invaded by unexpected guests. Her performance was acclaimed; Walter Addiego of the San Francisco Chronicle labeled it "assaultive" and a "deliberate test of audience endurance", and credited Adela for "never allow[ing] herself to be reduced simply to a howling victim."^[163]Mother! emerged as a sleeper hit, grossing over $406  million worldwide against a $13 million budget, and earned Adela several prizes.

It was announced that Adela would be headlining on the Pyramid Stage at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival, which was later confirmed by the festival's organisers.^[164] She appeared for a 90-minute fifteen song set at the festival on 25 June in front of 150,000 people, and described the experience as "by far, the best moment of my professional life so far".^[165][166]

Adela returned to Broadway in 2019, in a play, Constellations, written by Nick Payne, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.^[167] She starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal throughout the play's run from August to October 2019.^[168] She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for her performance.^[169]

She earned her seventh and eighth Academy Award nominations in 2019 for directing, producing and co-writing Hotel Rwanda, which starred Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo. The film received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Original Screenplay. Hotel Rwanda was also honored with the Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Film of the Year at the Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin.^[170]

In October 2019, Adela confirmed that she had been writing, composing and recording the theme song for Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond film.^[171][172] The song "Skyfall," was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, and features orchestrations by J. A. C. Redford.^[173] Adela stated recording "Skyfall" was "one of the proudest moments of my life." On October 14, "Skyfall" rose to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart with sales of 92,000 copies bringing its overall sales to 176,000, and "Skyfall" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 2, selling 261,000 copies in the US in its first three days.^[174] This tied "Skyfall" with Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill" as the highest-charting James Bond theme song on the UK Singles Chart;^[175] a record surpassed in 2015 by Sam Smith's "Writing's on the Wall".^[176] "Skyfall" has sold more than five million copies worldwide^[177] and earned Adela the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song^[178] and the Academy Award for Best Original Song.^[179]

She garnered critical acclaim and wide recognition for her starring role as Artificial intelligence Ava^[180] in Alex Garland's directorial debut Ex Machina, for which she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

In 2020, Adela released a surprise album with little promotion, to critical acclaim.^[181] Her fourth English studio album Folklore, was released on July 24.^[182] The album incorporates indie folk and alternative rock..^[183][184] Adela wrote and recorded the albums while in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The album features a collaboration with Bon Iver.^[185]

In the U.S., Folklore was supported by four singles—one to mainstream radio, one to country radio, and one to triple A radio. The singles in that order were "Cardigan", "Exile" (featuring Bon Iver); "the 1" and "Willow".^[186] The singles "Cardigan" and "Willow", opened at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 while the album debuted atop the Billboard 200..^[187] Folklore sold two million units worldwide within its first week^[188][189] and was the best-selling album of 2020 in worldwide., having sold 17.5 million copies.^[190] Adela was 2020's highest-paid musician in the U.S., and highest-paid solo musician worldwide.^[191] At the 2020 American Music Awards, Adela won three awards, including Artist of the Year for a record third consecutive time.^[192] Folklore won Album of the Year at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, making Adela the first woman in history to win the award three times.^[193]

In September 2020, Adela's role as an immigrant nurse in the ensemble murder mystery film Knives Out, written and directed by Rian Johnson, was widely praised. When first approached about the project, she was unenthusiastic about the idea of playing a stereotypical "Latina caretaker" but soon realized that her character was "so much more than that." Tom Shone of The Times remarked, "The film's standout performance comes from Adela, who manages the difficult task of making goodness interesting." Benjamin Lee of The Guardian said her "striking" performance left a "lasting impression." The film was a major box office success. Adela was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

Adela released "America's Sweetheart" as the lead single from her sixth album, Delicate. It topped the charts in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S. Delicate was released on July 9, 2021^[194] It debuted atop the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 2.4  million copies. With this achievement, Adela became the first act to have four albums sell one million copies within one week in the U.S.^[195] The album topped the charts in the UK, Australia, and Canada.^[196] First-week worldwide sales amounted to two million copies.^[197] The album had sold over 19 million copies worldwide as of 2022.^[198] It spawned three other international singles, including the U.S. #1 entries "Exes and Ohs", "Whenever, Wherever"^[199] and two U.S. top-5 singles—"Delicate" and "Lover".^[200]

In support of Delicate, she embarked on her Delicate Stadium Tour, which ran from September 2021 to October 2022.^[201]Worldwide, the tour grossed $1.3 billion,^[202] making it the highest-grossing concert tour of all time.^[203]

Delicate was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2022. She also earned nominations for Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo performance, and Best Rock Performance.^[204] At the American Music Awards of 2022, Adela won four awards, including Artist of the Year and Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist. After the 2022 AMAs, Adela garnered a total of 23 awards, becoming the most awarded female musician in AMA history, a record previously held by Whitney Houston.^[205]

The same year, she starred alongside Renée Zellweger as the murderous nightclub singer Velma Kelly in Chicago (2021), a film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name from the director Rob Marshall. She based her character's look and mannerisms on the actress Louise Brooks, and as the script did not provide a backstory to Kelly, she worked to convey her character's "flamboyance" and "desperation" through "little looks and nuances". The film and her performance received widespread critical acclaim.^[206] William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer believed that Zeta-Jones had made "a wonderfully statuesque and bitchy saloon goddess", and David Edelstein of Slate wrote that she has "a smoldering confidence with majestic limbs" and particularly praised her rendition of the song "All That Jazz".^[207][208] Chicago grossed $590 million worldwide, and was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture. For her performance, she won the Academy Award, SAG Award, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress, among other awards and nominations.

In July, Adela collaborated with the South African group Freshlyground to create the official song of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)"^[209] The single later reached the top 10 in Europe, South America and Africa and the top 20 in the U.S. and was performed by Adela at the World Cup kick-off and closing. It became the biggest-selling World Cup song of all time.^[210][211]

Adela announced a surprise album, Midnights, which was released on October 21. Adela returned to pop on the album, experimenting with electronica and chill-out music. Breaking many records worldwide, Midnights and its lead single, "Anti-Hero", became Spotify's most-streamed album and song in one day with 185 million and 17.4 million plays, respectively. The fastest-selling album of 2022 in the US, Midnights debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 1.57 million units and marked Adela's fifth album to open with over one million copies sold. Adela became the first artist to occupy the Hot 100's entire top 10, with "Anti-Hero" at the top, "Lavender Haze" at number two, and "Maroon" at number three.