‘Awards Magnet’ mailbag: The fallout of the never-ending Karla Sofía Gascón debacle
To quote a Best Picture-winning musical, the name on everyone’s lips is Karla Sofía Gascón. Awards Magnet hosts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng are here to answer your burning questions of the week, most of which are unsurprisingly about the embattled Emilia Pérez star.
One listener wonders if Gascón’s resurfaced offensive tweets and her subsequent defiant statements have taken up so much oxygen that the other scandals of this Oscar season — Anora not using an intimacy coordinator, The Brutalist using AI, etc. — won’t have an impact on the race. But that also assumes the very offline Oscar voters were aware of those very online controversies in the first place. Gascón, on the other hand, has made her situation incredibly difficult to ignore. Another listener suggests Gascón might not even be invited to the Oscars.
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In non-Gascón questions, one listener is heartened by The Brutalist‘s Oscar chances not just because the Emilia Pérez campaign has been imperiled, but their mother, prone to falling asleep, stayed awake for the entire three-and-a-half-hour epic and liked it. The drama could pull ahead of the crowded field this weekend with wins at Critics Choice, Directors Guild of America, and Producers Guild of America Awards.
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