The film’s star Karla Sofía Gascón, who plays Emilia Pérez, made Academy Award history by becoming the first openly transgender actress to be nominated for an Oscar as she’s nominated for ...

Karla Sofía Gascón is the first transgender actor to score an Oscar nomination for her starring role in Netflix musical “Emilia Pérez.” ...

Karla Sofía Gascón is the first openly trans actress to receive an Oscar nomination for the controversial movie musical "Emilia Pérez." ...

By Paul Grein Emilia Pérez received 13 nominations for the 97th annual Academy Awards, more than any other film this year and more than any other non-English language film in Oscar history.

Actress Karla Sofía Gascón, playing the titular role, made Oscar history by being the first transgender woman to be nominated in any acting category. She joins a competitive field that also ...

Emilia Pérez—the controversial French lesbian trans crime musical (in Spanish) about a Mexican drug cartel leader who transitions in order to both escape and to lead a fuller life—has emerged as a ...

As fresh fires raced across the Los Angeles region, an embattled movie industry lined up behind the Netflix narco-musical about transgender identity “Emilia Pérez” in Oscar nominations Thursday.

Gascón became the first openly trans actress to receive an Oscar nomination. Left out were Angelina Jolie (“Maria”) and Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”), both of whom were active on the Oscar ...

However, there has been some support from the country’s filmmaking community. Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro called it “beautiful” and praised Audiard’s abilities. Following the ...

“Emilia Pérez,” a musical about a drug kingpin who undergoes gender affirming surgery, topped the 2025 Oscar nominations with 13 nods. It was followed closely behind by “The Brutalist,” a ...

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Spanish-language musical “Emilia Pérez” scored 13 Oscar nominations Thursday, the most of any non-English film in Academy Award history. The nominations, twice postponed as Los Angeles ...