After 13 Oscar nominations, the hope for Emilia Perez to take residence Greatest Image crumbled as soon as its star’s tweets resurfaced.
By no means in latest reminiscence has a film bungled its Greatest Image probabilities fairly like Emilia Pérez. Some have misplaced their steam by way of the months-long awards season, however solely Emilia Pérez’s slip has fallen on one particular person: its star, Karla Sofía Gascón, whose resurfaced tweets that have been rightly deemed filled with bigotry and hate got here again to hang-out not solely her, however the movie itself. Now, Netflix is lastly commenting on the backlash and the place the film stands forward of subsequent month’s Oscars.
Showing on The City podcast (by way of The Hollywood Reporter), Netflix’s CCO Bela Bejaria stated, “I think it’s really a bummer for the 100 incredibly talented people who made an amazing movie. And if you look at the nominations, and all of this awards love that it’s received, I think it’s such a bummer that it distracted from that. It really has kind of taken the conversation in a different way [from] this incredible movie that Jacques Audiard — who is an incredible director — has made. It really is a bummer for a lot of the people, like [co-stars] Zoe [Saldaña] and Selena [Gomez]. And in our awards team did an incredible campaign for that movie.”
Emilia Pérez is nominated for 13 Academy Awards, a staggering quantity that places it within the firm of Gone with the Wind, Forrest Gump and The Fellowship of the Ring. And whereas it appeared like Emilia Pérez was properly on its strategy to taking residence Greatest Image – particularly after nabbing a prime honor on the Golden Globes – as soon as Gascón’s tweets got here out just a few weeks later, the film’s probabilities have been useless. At this level, the actress has been fully distanced from what stays of the marketing campaign.
Whereas the SAG and BAFTAs will give us a definitive image for what’s going to win large on the Oscars, proper now it’s wanting like Sean Baker’s Anora is in probably the most snug spot, having taken each the DGA and PGA Awards.
So what’s going to Emilia Pérez go residence with? If I needed to predict, it’s solely taking two of its 13 nominations, with just one I’d actually name a assure: Greatest Unique Tune for “El Mal”. Zoe Saldaña is in a great place to take residence Greatest Supporting Actress, though this could partly be as a result of class fraud, as she completely belongs within the lead actress class, which she wouldn’t have as clear of a shot at profitable. On the similar time, if anybody goes to cease her it’s going to be Ariana Grande for Depraved.
