Scandal-hit narco-musical 'Emilia Perez' wins Spanish film prize

GRANADA, SPAIN — 

Narco-musical Emilia Perez won champion European movie astatine Spain's equivalent of the Oscars connected Saturday, aft societal media posts by the movie's prima prompted a backlash successful the mediate of awards season.

The mostly Spanish-language philharmonic tells the communicative of a Mexican cause cartel brag who transitions to beingness arsenic a pistillate and turns her backmost connected crime.

Before the ungraded broke, the movie earned 13 Oscar nods, picked up 4 Golden Globes successful January and won aggregate prizes astatine past year's Cannes Film Festival.

But aged societal media posts by prima Karla Sofia Gascon, successful which she denigrates Islam, China and African American George Floyd, unleashed a ungraded that has harmed her estimation and the film.

Voting for the Goya awards closed connected Jan. 24, days earlier the posts were uncovered.

Spaniard Gascon, the archetypal transgender pistillate nominated for an Oscar for champion actress, has apologized for her posts and distanced herself from publicity for the film.

She lives adjacent Madrid but did not be the Goya awards ceremonial successful Granada.

The movie's French manager Jacques Audiard has called the posts "inexcusable" and "absolutely hateful."