Why Karla Sofía Gascón’s Twitter Scandal Spells Trouble for the Oscars Ceremony

variety.com:

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Much as its cartel-boss-trying-to-go-good antiheroine does as she tears through her family and community, “Emilia Pérez” defines its environment.

It has been tipped for Academy attention since Greta Gerwig’s Cannes jury gave it two key prizes. And its field-leading 13 Oscar nominations (a number that, were there still two sound categories where “Perez” could be honored instead of just one, would tie the all-time record) have made it, up until very recently, the film to beat.

More than that, though, its star Karla Sofía Gascón has become a defining figure — no, the defining figure — in an awards race whose strange ugliness has set it apart.

The recent revelation of years’ worth of Islamophobic, racist and otherwise casually yet remarkably cruel posts on the platform now known as X have given us something utterly novel: An awards-season star whose existence makes one wish the Oscars weren’t even happening.