Well, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences finally did it.
It nominated a male for an Oscar for Best Actress.
Karla Sofía Gascón received the nomination for the movie Emilia Pérez, a movie about a cartel boss who transitions to a female to disappear.
The movie is based on director Jacques Audiard’s opera of the same title, which he adapted from Boris Razon’s novel Écoute.
The movie has 13 nominations.
He is the first trans to be nominated for an Oscar.
How much do you want to bet he will be the first to win it?
Variety mentioned the CISGENDER actors who won Oscars for portraying transgender characters.
No. Jared Leto and Eddie Redmayne are males. Hilary Swank is a female. We aren’t CIS.
Here’s the funny thing. Critics love Emilia Pérez, but the LGBT community has trashed it and has a 6.4 rating on IMDB.
GLAAD described the movie as a “profoundly retrograde portrayal of a trans woman.”
Reanna Cruz, who uses they/them pronouns, blasted it:
In a recent episode of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, critic Reanna Cruz expressed their belief that the movie stereotyped both Mexicans and trans women.“The entire time I was watching it I had a really weird feeling in my stomach because to me it seemed like the filmmaker was painting trans women as liars,” Cruz said. “Liars and people that can’t tell the truth and they don’t know who they are.”
Amelia Hansford, a trans woman, trashed the film in Pink News: As a trans woman, this is why I think Emilia Pérez is sub-par, disingenuous, harmful nonsense.
Wow:
Emilia Pérez is primarily a film about being reborn, and it tries to use the idea of transitioning to convey that through her transition, Emilia is trying to repent for the sins she committed in her time as cartel boss. The issue with this is that transition isn’t a moral decision, and the act of transitioning alone doesn’t somehow absolve you of your past self. It isn’t a death, nor is it a rebirth.Instead, Emilia continues to use contacts from the cartel, manipulates her family into trusting and spending time with her, becomes physically aggressive near the film’s ending when reconnecting doesn’t pan out, and even opts to threaten her wife, played by Selena Gomez, with financial blackmail.None of this is framed in a way that makes any thematic sense and ends up showcasing Emilia as yet another psychopathic trans character to add to the pile.
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