Actor in lead role of 'Emilia Perez' has received nomination for Best Actress

Well personally I'd have had the actress who plays Rita (ep's lawyer) in the best actress category as hers seems to be the linchpin role.

That is not how the Holocaust started.

The Nazis were a bunch of racist thugs right from their inception

We've been busy discussing the ins and outs for the past few days on the Gascón/Cannes thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5083078-and-the-winner-of-the-cannes-best-actress-award-is?page=6&reply=141841416

There's always a tweet...

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/karla-sof-gasc-n-racist-233406963.html

Men who 'become' women don't stop believing that women should defer to them or that men are entitled to what they want.

Absolute joke... I stopped listening when they managed to talk about the protests in Iran without mentioning women. They're awful. Maybe it shouldn't but it still surprised me such old fashioned, unashamed sexism still exists. And they're supposed to be progressive.

FURRY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!

I might identify as a dog and demand to win crufts

Do you think I could identify as a starring actress, and demand to be nominated for an Oscar? After all, that's how it works, isn't it?

@tiddletoddles and the point of course is that no one minds them acting or getting prizes; they just shouldn’t be given women’s prizes. That means one more women bumped off the podium, as in sports when trans identifying men compete as women.

Women have had to fight so hard for their places at the top table, to have their sports and positions recognised. For those achievements now simply to be taken by biological men is unfair and enraging.

Some anger after comparing their treatment to the Holocaust: https://x.com/juanpabrenis/status/1883725264854897007

Sorry, haven't seen much commentary on this posted in English yet.

English translation of what Gascón said:

"Today someone asked me if I thought that there was an orchestrated smear campaign against my nomination and Emilia Pérez. It’s more than obvious that we have a big problem staking humanity once again.
Beware with glossing over hate speech, that’s how Germany started and we ended up with concentration camps. Beware with laughing the jokes reader who pretend to cut off our rights, beware with buying into the fear. Beware because the ones laughing, are to be the most affected ones tomorrow.
Cause/effect"

I will be livid if Cynthia Erivo loses out to this pile of shait!
The Mexican and LGB community have panned it!

Just dropping this here... https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/27/johanne-sacrebleu-emilia-perez/

... I attempted to add a comment but the irony involved was so heavy it tore my writing muscle

It is technically right to say that it breaks all the Oscar traditions of nominating categories according to the sex of the actor or actress.

Mugglewump is technically not wrong to say "She has as much right as anyone to be up for best actress"

If anyone can identify as a woman nowadays, anyone has the right to be nominated as best actress.

What a joke this has all become.

"She' is not a she nor an actress.

Having been male from conception and remaining male, notwithstanding cosmetic changes - indeed visibly physically male.

Whilst I thought the film itself was nothing special and the plot is a bit meh, I think it is rare to have the same actor play themselves as a man and a woman and she is convincing. I thought the premise that she could not be herself because of the culture she lived in and therefore had to suffer the heartache of pretending to be a different person was poignant. She has as much right as anyone to be up for best actress.

I think that there are plenty of people who know that this takes another award from a woman, @SmudgeHughes - they just don't care. Women only matter to these people as something they can colonise, replace, silence and erase. The worst part is that some of these people are women themselves.

My brother in law is part of the 'Be Kind' brigade - the last time we saw them, we had quite a heated discussion. He won't even contemplate third spaces - men's, women's AND gender-neutral loos/changing rooms, for example - because this is 'othering' the poor ickle trans women. I bit my tongue and didn't say that I don't give a shit about othering them - because they are 'other'.

Yep. Two prizes. Both go to men. Not exactly smashing the patriachy!

But a lot of people will think ‘oh just be kind; what does it matter; they pass ok’. Completely failing to realise that this takes yet another award from a woman.

It’s a way of sticking two fingers up to women.

'I'm disappointed though not surprised entirely that Mark Kermode loved it.'

Disappointed but not surprised here too

I tried to watch the film today but gave up about an hour in. Absolute tripe - terrible songs, badly sung, ridiculous story and really quite dull. I thought that Gascon was fine but no revelation. I thought that Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez were much more impressive

It's not anti-trans. It's pro-women's rights, which you would think would be the point of MN.

It's really out of order isn't it! People are just pointing out that nominating a biological man for an award designed for actresses is denying an opportunity to a woman, which is completely unfair.