Nominated 13 times by the Academy of Oscars, Jacques Audiard's feature film, Emilia Perez (2024) now holds the historic record for nominations for a non-English-speaking film. It competes with another French film for the category of best director: The Substance by Coralie Fargeat.
A historic record. Directed by the famous filmmaker Jacques Audiard, the feature film “Emilia Perez” becomes the most nominated non-English film of all time after the announcement, Thursday, January 23, of the Academy of Oscars, reports Le Figaro. The film, which is nominated, among others, for the best film category, will also be in competition with another French film, “The Substance”, by Coralie Fargeat. The main performers of the two films, Karla Sofía Gascón and Demi Moore, will face each other for the best actress prize, indicates France Info.
Emilia's redemption against the backdrop of a musical odyssey
At the same time as an anti-LGBT offensive is looming in the United States, under the leadership of the newly inaugurated president Donald Trump, the Academy of Oscars is highlighting a film telling the story of the gender transition of a Mexican drug trafficker. Played by Karla Sofía Gascón, a transgender Spanish actress, her role is part of a dramatic musical odyssey where Manitas del Monte, who becomes Emilia during her epic journey, will turn her back on her criminal past to repair the misfortune she suffered. caused as a former drug trafficker.
Selected for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the jury prize as well as the female performance prize for all the actresses. During the Cannes Film Festival, the Spanish actress delivered an eminently political speech where she dedicated part of this collective prize “to all transgender people who suffer every day and are denigrated”reports the Huffington Post. Jacques Audiard's feature film is ahead of “Tigres et Dragons” released in theaters in 2000, and “Roma” (2018) which previously held the record with 10 nominations.
-published on January 23 at 4:25 p.m., Gabriel Gadré, 6Médias
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