Emilia Pérez Has been the villain of Awards season for a while, but the reason for this has been dramatically shifted last week.
The Netflix film, which follows a Mexican cartel leader whose plan to falsify her death and transition to life as a woman, is complicated by family and justice, has 13 Oscar nominations -much more than any other film. The Spanish -speaking musical crime Dramedy by the French director Jacques Audiard, who is just as complex as his genre, suggested, dominated to the Golden Globes.
Online control of Gascón seemed to intensify on January 29, after an online interview that the best actress did with a Brazilian newspaper went viral a few days earlier. Gascón ‘accused people who work with it [fellow Best Actress nominee] Fernanda Torres “From” Tear me and Emilia Pérez Down. “According to Variety, she did not put Torres herself herself, so it was not a violation of the rules of the academy, although some commentators suggested that it could be.
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On January 30, just a month before the Oscars are broadcast, journalist Sarah Hagi discovered X -posts of the main actress of the film, Karla Sofía Gascón, who plays Emilia Pérez himself. Critics called the messages racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic. Gascón posted an apology on Instagram and stated that the tweets were removed from the context and that she is ‘not racist’. She also seemed to imply that the controversy was part of a smear campaign against her. In a CNN interview of one hour that was reportedly not authorized by Netflix, she said she felt “crucified and stoned without a process”.
By January 31, during a Q&A in London, Emilia Pérez Co-star and best supporting actress Frontrunner Zoe Salaña said: “I am still processing everything that has happened in recent days, and I am sad. … It really makes me sad because I have no support [it]And I have no tolerance for a negative rhetoric against people from a group. “
Members of the cast of Emilia Pérez With director Jacques Audiard (third from the right): Adriana Paz, Edgar Ramírez, Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón and Zoe Saldaña, on the 2025 Golden Globes. (Jeff Kravitz/Filmmagic)
Puck’s Matthew Belloni reported that Selena Gomez did not go to the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy party on 1 February with her fiancé Benny Blanco and predicted that much of the cast of Emilia Pérez Can be low for a while.
Scott Feinberg of the Hollywood Reporter reported on 3 February that Gascón would no longer fly from Spain to the United States to appear at various events she would attend, including the AFI Awards Lunch on 6 February and the Rescheduled Critics Choice Awards on 7 February . She was also supposed to attend the producers Guild Awards on 8 February as a presenter and the Virtuoso Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on 9 February.
Feinberg wrote that Netflix is no longer interested in providing transport and accommodations for Gascón during its Oscars campaign, as usually with nominees.
Netflix did not respond to Yahoo Entertainment’s request for comments.
All this comes just before the last round of Oscars voices starts on 11 February. It will continue until February 18.
Karla Sofía Gascón in Emilia Pérez. (Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection)
Before Gascón was examined for her posts, Emilia Pérez Was already founded as the villain of the awards season. It often happens that one film comes to the fore when the most hated among his colleagues and it often wins the best photo because negative sentiment does not always influence the Academy voters.
To start with, it was praised by Cinefielen who caught the film when it premiered at the Cannes film festival in May 2024, but by the time it landed on Netflix in November, it was never at the top of the film cards of the streaming service. Reviews are generally favorable with a score of 76% on Rotten Tomatoes, but that is far below the average for the best photo nominees of 2025.
Other criticisms are the absence of Mexican actresses in the main cast of the film, even though the film is set in Mexico; The implementation of an actress who is not fluent Spanish in a Spanish-speaking role and the alleged diss against the Mexican culture by the French director of the film, who apologized after critics called his representation of the country ‘non-authentic’.
In a long article, Glaad said that it was “deep retrograde” to use the transgender identity of the protagonist as an interesting arch. Other critics in the cut, Pinknews and they shared similar worries.
With great prize -giving cakes on the horizon, the tide could turn Emilia Pérez – Both the film and the actress who plays the title character. As it looks now, Emilia Pérez Still leads our best image board, but a lot can change in a week.