Emilia Pérez’ Director Jacques Audiard Includes Karla Sofía Gascón When Thanking "Beloved Actresses" In DGA Medallion Speech

The actress’s old social media posts have threatened to derail the film’s Oscar campaign, but backlash has been building for months for other reasons.

Zoe Saldaña isn’t letting the controversy surrounding her “Emilia Pérez” costar Karla Sofía Gascón’s offensive social media comments take the joy out of her experience being recognized in the Oscar race,

Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón was, as expected, not in attendance at this evening's Goya Awards in Spain, but was clearly on the minds of some folks who were. When accepting the Goya for Best European Film (the only prize for which Emilia Pérez was nominated) representatives from the movie's Spanish distributors gave a shoutout to the actress,

Karla Sofía Gascón was one of three "Emilia Pérez" women to win the Critics Choice Award for best song following a series of controversial posts.

Wicked, Emilia Pérez and The Substance each won three awards at the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards, which were held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. on Friday (Feb. 7). But none of those films took the top prize, best picture, which went to Anora (which won no other awards on the night).

Netflix has distanced itself from Karla Sofía Gascón following backlash over past social media posts that were deemed Islamophobic and racist