‘Awards Magnet’: Has Karla Sofía Gascón torpedoed ‘Emilia Pérez’s Oscar hopes?
Can Emilia Pérez recover from Karla Sofía Gascón‘s incendiary tweets and rogue press tour? Awards Magnet hosts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng discuss the unprecedented controversy with Gold Derby editor-in-chief Debra Birnbaum.
Unless you’ve been living under the rock since Thursday, Gascón’s unearthed offensive social media posts have turned the Oscar race upside down. This is not the first social media controversy in Oscar history, but instead of laying low after her apology, the Best Actress nominee has consistently put out statements, including doing an hour-long CNN en Espa?ol interview, in which she continues to defend herself and call out attackers. Emilia Pérez has since fallen from second to fourth place in the Gold Derby Best Picture odds (and will likely drop further), but can its Oscar chances be salvaged? And would even the film’s biggest fans want to vote for any aspect of it if Gascón continues to keep the scandal at the forefront?
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Despite its leading 13 nominations, Emilia Pérez was only the frontrunner in three categories, which did not include Best Picture. It remains the favorite in Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Salda?a, who might be able to survive the controversy. She is, after all, innocent in all of this and has already denounced Gascón’s tweets. At Sunday’s London Film Critics’ Circle Awards, she said she wasn’t expecting to win Best Supporting Actress “especially now.” Besides, the whole situation might create sympathy for her.
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