As Karla Sofía Gascón's Oscar campaign derails due to racist tweets, the industry wonders: How did Netflix not check her post history?

To be silent is to be complicit. Black lives matter.” In the heat of the 2020 movement against racism, Netflix felt compelled to write these words on corporate social media accounts five days after the death of George Floyd.

Netflix clearly didn’t either. The streamer was sitting pretty with Emilia Pérez and its 13 nominations—not only the most for a single film this year, but one short of the all-time record. Executives were probably already pulling out the Champagne before Best Actress frontrunner Karla Sofía Gascón swept in to annihilate not only her own chance at a statue,

The actress’s old social media posts have threatened to derail the film’s Oscar campaign, but backlash has been building for months for other reasons.

Unfortunately, this could affect Karla's Emilia Pérez costar and Best Supporting Actress frontrunner, Zoe Saldaña. In the wake of Karla's damage control press tour, Variety changed its official Oscars prediction for the category from Zoe to Ariana Grande, suggesting that Zoe might end up being collateral damage.

The director of Emilia Pérez addressed the controversy surrounding the movie's star — Karla Sofía Gascón. Michael Kovac / Getty Images for Netflix, Rich Polk / Penske Media via Getty Images In an interview with Deadline, French writer-director Jacques Audiard responded to Karla's slew of resurfaced, anti-Muslim, racist, and offensive tweets.

Selena Gomez has broken her silence over the controversy surrounding her "Emilia Pérez" costar Karla Sofía Gascón while attending the 2025 Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, the first openly trans woman to be nominated for an Oscar has been ousted from promotions of the film.