Oscars CEO condemns ‘hate speech’ — but urges ‘respect’ if Karla Sofía Gascón shows up

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controversial social media posts resurfaced in January.“The Academy does not condone hate speech — I want to be very clear about that,” Kramer told The Hollywood Reporter. “Karla’s nomination is historic.

That’s really important. She’s still a nominee. We honor that, but we do not condone hate speech.”He added that “all nominees are invited to attend the show,” and “that stands” for Gascón if she chooses to go.“If Karla joins us for the night, I hope there is an air of respect,” Kramer continued. “We have over 200 nominees.

The night is about much more than one person. We are there to celebrate all of our nominees.”Kramer has been the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2022.Gascón’s old posts on X, formerly Twitter, have since been deleted.According to Variety, in a 2021 post reacting to that year’s Oscars, the Spanish star wrote, “More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M.

Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.”In another since deleted post, she allegedly wrote: “Honestly, I think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider Black people to be … without rights and consider policemen to be assassins.