Narco-Musical Emilia Pérez has won the best European film, the Spanish Oscar equivalent, among the fallout from the star's past racist and Islamophobic social media posts.
The film star and first trans woman to be nominated for the Oscar, Carla Sofia Gascon, is an old man who denies George Floyd, a Muslim, Chinese and African American, and unleashes scandals After the social media posts appeared, she didn't attend the ceremony, which hurt her reputation and the film.
Gascon, who apologised for the comment, is already understood to have been withdrawn by her publisher, criticized by prominent politicians, and removed from the film's campaign material by studio Netflix.
The Goya Awards vote closed on January 24th, before the post was discovered.
The mostly Spanish musical tells the story of a Mexican drug cartel boss who transitions to life as a woman and turns his back on crime.
Her comments have been described as “absolutely hateful” by the film's director Jack Audido, and Gascon co-star Zoe Saldana said the views expressed saddened and disappointed her. It's there.
Before the scandal broke, the film won 13 Oscar nods, won four Golden Globes in January, and won multiple awards at last year's Cannes Film Festival.
Gascon lives near Madrid's Spanish capital, but did not attend the Goya awards ceremony in Granada.
The social media posts are believed to have destroyed Oscar's hopes, but some have questioned the scale and ferociousness of the backlash that the actor faces.
In the line Wednesday's Elpaiswriter and journalist Sergio del Morino argued that actors Gascon and Gascon should be considered separately and that she should not be punished on Oscar night.
“If the people at the academy were convinced that Cara Sofia Gascon deserved an Oscar for her work at Emilia Perez, there's no reason why they should feel different today,” he wrote. “No matter how ridiculous, racist, insulting or bad tasted her tweets years ago, they weren't part of her performance. And If they thought of an award-worthy performance a week ago, they should still be, as the film hasn't changed.”
Another writer and journalist Manuel Javois; Cadena Ser “Everyone who doesn't feel a bit sorry for her is a problem,” he admits there was a debate over how to separate Gascon's “artistic talent from the nasty racist” opinion.
“And there's another debate about how much rejection or cancellation by Netflix will go by colleagues by the government of this country,” Jabois said. “No matter how badly I find her 10-year-old opinion, I condemn the absurd cruelty and the absurd loneliness she has been condemned.”
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