With the 2025 Oscars now in the rearview mirror, let's take a look at the controversies surrounding "Emilia Pérez." The film follows the story of Gascón's titular character, Emilia Pérez, a Mexican ...

Emilia Pérez leads the pack of 2025 Oscar hopefuls with a whopping 13 nominations, but the movie has faced several different ...

Gascón was a regular in Mexican telenovelas before transitioning in 2018. In Emilia Pérez, she plays a menacing cartel kingpin who fakes his death in order to transition to a woman. Years later ...

The cast and crew are aware of the controversies, and the director has encouraged people to see the film before forming ... affirming surgery to the way Emilia's transition seems to be equated ...

By most accounts, the Oscar-nominated “Emilia Pérez” is a terrible movie. Mexican critics panned the film’s portrayal of cartel violence, while trans critics hated how gender transition was ...

A historical 13 nominations for the musical about a Mexican cartel boss that fakes her death to transition ... a little solidarity from the Emilia Perez team would have gone along way.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Alejandra Marquez Guajardo, Michigan State University (THE CONVERSATION) French ...

Voting for the BAFTAs closed last Tuesday but had been open since the beginning of January, meaning that many could have cast their ballots in favor of “Emilia Pérez” before the controversy ...