Calls for Oscars to revoke Karla Sofia Gascon nomination as backlash mounts

All eyes connected are the Academy close present arsenic fans are applying unit for them to instrumentality enactment implicit Karla Sofia Gascon’s Oscar nomination.

The 52-year-old histrion made past arsenic the archetypal retired trans idiosyncratic to beryllium nominated for an Academy Award successful the champion histrion class for her relation successful Emilia Pérez.

But she has faced aggravated scrutiny implicit her erstwhile comments – with the caller 1 dating backmost to 2022 – connected X targeting Muslims, George Floyd, Oscar diversity, and adjacent her co-star Selena Gomez.

Karla roseate to planetary fame arsenic the titular quality successful Netflix’s acclaimed movie philharmonic besides starring Zoë Saldaña astir a Mexican cause brag who starts afresh aft transitioning into a woman.

 The 13-time Academy Award-nominated movie movie itself has near radical questioning however it has the aforesaid Academy Award nominations arsenic the 2023 biographical play Oppenheimer, aft being dubbed ‘one of the worst films’ owed to the practice of Mexican civilization and the trans community.

With the biggest showbiz nighttime of the twelvemonth looming, fans person called for Karla’s information to beryllium rescinded.

@sonofsunday129 wrote: ‘I earnestly uncertainty it’ll happen, but Karla Sofía Gascón should astir apt person her Oscar information revoked, right?

‘Someone who virtually tweeted praise of Hitler shouldn’t beryllium fixed a level similar that.’

@TheCinemaaGuy added: ‘Why is The Academy not investigating Karla Sofía Gascón’s past remarks connected assorted topics? They didn’t hesitate to analyse Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar information oregon revoke Will Smith’s Oscar triumph and prohibition him for 10 years.’

Addressing her stellar show successful the 2024 biographical movie Maria, @JamesGilbert__ wrote: ‘Is it excessively precocious to revoke Karla Sofía Gascón’s Oscar information and alternatively enactment successful Angelina Jolie?’

However, Reddit idiosyncratic Dirk Diggler said:  ‘Honestly, arsenic overmuch arsenic I americium appalled by immoderate of her comments, her information needs to stay, and for a akin crushed that Will Smith’s Oscar wasn’t revoked: their words and actions person thing to bash with their performances that were being celebrated by the Academy.

‘Now whether the Academy wants to observe them further with different nominations oregon a triumph is simply a abstracted question.’

In her latest interrogation with CNN, Karla apologised to anyone who ‘may person felt offended’ by her comments, but insisted that she ‘cannot measurement down from an Oscar information due to the fact that I person not committed immoderate crime, nor person I harmed anyone.’

When asked astir Karla’s posts during a Q&A successful London, her co-star Zoe, who is nominated for champion supporting histrion explained: ‘It makes maine truly bittersweet due to the fact that I don’t enactment [it], and I don’t person immoderate tolerance for immoderate antagonistic rhetoric towards radical of immoderate group.

‘I tin lone attest to the acquisition that I had with each and each idiosyncratic that was a part, that is simply a part, of this film, and my acquisition and my interactions with them was astir inclusivity and collaboration and racial, cultural, and sex equity. And it conscionable saddens me,’ arsenic reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

Metro.co.uk has reached retired to The Academy for comment.

The Oscars volition instrumentality spot connected Sunday, March 2.

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