The nominations for the Oscars 2025 were announced and send the gangster musical Emilia Pérez into the race for most gold boys. The film by Jacques Audiard was for 13 of the coveted trophies Nominated and breaks several records. However, the film world reacts split to the big Oscar favorite.
Emilia Pérez on the Oscar course: The gangster musical breaks several records
Emilia Pérez was nominated in 13 categories at the Oscars – including the following categories:
As a non-English-language film and international contribution from France, he is the Most nominated international film ever And even leaves nothing new (9 nominations) behind in the west (9 nominations).
The main actress Karla Sofia Gascón is also As the first publicly occurring trans person Nominated for an Oscar in a main category – also a long overdue record that Emilia Pérez 2025 is now building up at the Academy Awards.
While Emilia Pérez goes into the race with 13 nominations as the biggest favorite, the Gangster Musical is also the title, at the same time who split the film world the most. This not only shows a look at the reviews of the film, which are extremely mixed across numerous platforms.
So Emilia Pérez holds one at Rotten Tomatoes Press score of 76 percent against a public rating of 31 percent. At Metacritic, the film comes to 71/100 review points against a user rating of 7.3/10. The Moviepilot Community currently awards a score of 6.5/10. In the case of Letterboxd, the gangster musical, on the other hand, has an average ranking of 2.5 out of 5 stars at 278,000 rating.
Why does Oscar favorite Emilia Pérez split the film world?
Since his premiere at the Film Festival in Cannes 2024, where Emilia Pérez has already been honored with several trophies, the film has split criticism and audience at the same time. While some Wild genre mix of gangster thrillers, musical and melodramacelebrate the unexpected story of a trans woman within a Mexican antitrust milieus and unconventional aesthetics, the film leaves behind with other question marks and disappointment.
Mexican representation
While Emilia Pérez plays mainly in Mexico, it is often criticized that the film in France was made under the direction of a French director. Although such a procedure in the film industry is not unusual, some accuse the gangster musical, to reproduce Mexican stereotypeswho, especially in the story about drug smuggling and missing people, tells of someone who has never lived in Mexico.
In an interview with CNN (via Hola), director and screenwriter Jacques Audiard said that intensive research took place in Mexico and was originally planned to shoot in Mexico. For many, however, this intention is not enough.
Spanish language
Jacques Audiard wrote the script for Emilia Pérez himself in French. The songs contributed by the singer Camille were also written in French. Both were subsequently translated by the Mexican interpreter Karla Aviles into Spanish – a fact that many Spanish -speaking people criticize because the film “hears” these inconsistencies.
That the Madrid -from Madrid Karla Sofía Gascón speaks Castilian as a mother tongue and the supporting actress Selena Gomez from Texas for the film Broken Spanish refreshed, reflect in the accents of their characters, who are in Emilia Pérez Mexican origin and should therefore speak fluent Spanish.
Selena Gomez apologized to Tikkok after the criticism and explained: “I understand what you think. I’m sorry. I did the best with the time that was given to me. “
Trans representation
However, one of the greatest criticisms of Emilia Pérez represents the trans representation by the title -giving figure. While many of the many Visibility celebrated If, which comes into play by Gascón as the main actress in an unexpected genre, the way, the way, is How This visibility comes into play, often negatively absorbed.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (Glaad), for example, called the gangster musical “A step back in trans representation”. The Glaad Media Awards, which announced their nominations on January 22, 2025, saved Emilia Pérez strikingly.
Trans author Amelia Hansford von Pink News wrote in her criticism that Emilia Pérez does not feel like an honest story about trans experience: “The point is not that trans representation has to be perfect, but it has to be truly, and Emilia Pérez does not feel truly.”
Queere Author: Inside like Samantha Allen, James Factora and Fran Tirado from Them, wrote in an article: “[Emilia Pérez’] Transition is told as an absolution, used for veiling and as a reason for your redemption. It is an idea of what transs being, perfect From the idea of an CIS person. “
We will learn whether and how many of the 13 trophies Emilia Pérez clears at the 2025 Awards ceremony in the night from March 2nd.