Emilia Perez Receives Criticism Despite Receiving 13 Nominations In Oscars 2025

Despite its huge international success, including a dominating Golden Globes victory, and 13 Oscar nominations, Emilia Perez is currently facing criticism in Mexico, where the transgender narco-musical has been accused of trivialising raging drug-related violence.

French director Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language production shattered the record for many Academy Award nominations for a non-English-language movie, after winning four Golden Globe Awards. But in Mexico, the reaction for the film has been less positive amid the viewers, due to the ongoing spiral of cartel-related violence that has claimed hundreds and thousands of lives. “The film trivializes the problem of the missing individuals in Mexico,” argued a petition on the Change.org website. The particular petition had more than 11,000 signatures calling for the movie to be pulled off, before its scheduled Mexican release on Thursday.

“It is an insensitive film, disrespectful to our culture that goes far beyond drug trafficking and the pain of thousands of families,”  the petition noted. Angie Orozco, who is known as the mother of more than 100,000 people missing in Mexico, told local media that while she did not object to Emilia Perez being a musical, she felt that “it should be approached in a respectful way.”

Earlier, when the film came into the spotlight due to the criticism, director Jacques Audiard had ignored it all, but now in a recent conversation, he accepted that he perhaps “handled it clumsily.” Ahead of the nominations, he said that “some scenes in the film deliberately decided to “defy credulity” and the goal was to tell stories that are “both local as well as universal.”

Meanwhile, the constant success offered to Emilia Perez is surprising to many. As Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday, January 23rd, the film heads to compete for best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay and many more genres.

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