Emilia Pérez’s Karla Sofía Gascón Denies Breaking Oscars Rule

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Karla Sofía Gascón is inactive present for her fellow Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres.

The Emilia Pérez prima denied speaking sick of the I'm Still Here performer—who she's facing disconnected successful the Best Actress category astatine the upcoming 2025 Oscars—and violating an Academy Awards policy.

The accusations came aft Gascón alleged there's been an online run to undermine her up of the March 2 ceremony, telling Brazilian paper Folha de S. Paulo successful a Spanish interview, "What I don’t similar are societal media teams—people who enactment with these people—trying to diminish our work, similar maine and my movie, due to the fact that that doesn’t pb anywhere."

"You don’t request to teardrop down someone’s enactment to item another’s," she continued successful a Jan. 28 video. "I person never, astatine immoderate point, said thing atrocious astir Fernanda Torres oregon her movie. However, determination are radical moving with Fernanda Torres tearing maine and Emilia Pérez down. That speaks much astir their movie than mine."

According to Oscars regulations, immoderate "public connection by anyone straight associated with an eligible movie attempting to formed a antagonistic oregon derogatory airy connected a competing movie oregon accomplishment volition not beryllium tolerated."

"In particular," policy posted connected the Academy website reads, "any maneuver that singles retired 'the competition' by sanction oregon rubric is expressly forbidden."

Amid speculation that she whitethorn person violated the Oscars' codification of conduct, Gascón clarified that her remarks were not astir Torres oregon her nonstop associates.

"I americium an tremendous instrumentality of Fernanda Torres and it has been fantastic getting to cognize her the past fewer months," she said successful a Jan. 29 connection to Variety. "In my caller comments, I was referencing the toxicity and convulsive hatred code connected societal media that I sadly proceed to experience."

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Gascón continued, "Fernanda has been a fantastic ally, and nary 1 straight associated with her has been thing but supportive and hugely generous."

In fact, Gascón has noted that she'll beryllium contented with whoever wins the Oscar.

"This isn’t a competition," she told Folha de S. Paulo during her interview. "This is simply astir radical liking one's enactment oregon not."

E! News has reached retired to Gascón and Torres' reps, arsenic good arsenic the Academy, for remark but hasn't heard back.

For much reactions from 2025 Oscar nominees, support reading.

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Zoe Saldaña

“I don’t deliberation I tin decently explicit the heavy levels of gratitude and joyousness I consciousness for the designation Emilia Pérez has been given," the actress, who starred successful the Jacques Audiard movie alongside Karla Sofía Gascón. "Being portion of the beauteous household Jacques created was a imagination and each azygous idiosyncratic progressive poured their emotion into telling this almighty story. I’m particularly grateful to Karla, whose bravery and endowment brought truthful overmuch extent and authenticity to Emilia. It’s a bittersweet infinitesimal arsenic our assemblage successful Los Angeles is processing the heartbreaking losses from the ongoing fires - homes, schools, businesses and full neighborhoods. My bosom is with each those affected and I’m sending endless emotion and appreciation to our fearless archetypal responders and everyone moving to assistance rebuild our city.”

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Karla Sofía Gascón

After making past with her Best Actress nomination, the Emilia Pérez prima wrote connected Instagram, "Thank you truthful overmuch @theacademy @emiliaperezfilm."

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Adrien Brody

“Thank you to each my peers and colleagues astatine the Academy for this bonzer honor," the Brutalist histrion said Jan. 23. "For astir 4 decades, I’ve experienced the peaks and valleys of being an artist. It’s fixed maine position and a tremendous appreciation and respect for this moment."

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Colman Domingo

“To beryllium backmost again astatine the Oscar nominations array is genuinely meaningful to me, particularly for the enactment that Sing Sing represents," the histrion shared. "Work which genuinely hopes to radiance agleam loving airy into acheronian places by utilizing art. I americium truthful thrilled for our institution which besides received nominations for adapted screenplay and archetypal song. All of that enactment is truthful tender and hopeful conscionable similar our film. I couldn’t beryllium prouder arsenic an histrion oregon producer."

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Mikey Madison

"It's incredibly exciting," the Anora histrion told Good Morning America. "Very, precise surreal. I'm truthful grateful, humbled and truthful happy."

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Mindy Kaling

“I person been a shaper for astir 20 years, but producing Anuja has been a item of my career," she said successful a connection to E! News. "I consciousness truthful fortunate to beryllium portion of this joyous communicative of 2 girls with large dreams and ambitions, but who are overlooked - my favourite benignant of heroines! I’m truthful grateful to Adam Graves and Suchitra Mattai for inviting maine and Kaling International connected this journey. I besides don’t slumber truthful it was bully to really beryllium doing thing amusive astatine 5:30 this morning. I should get that checked out!” 

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Elton John

“It’s an unthinkable grant to person this information for 'Never Too Late,' alongside my collaborators Brandi Carlile, Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt," the legendary vocalist said successful a statement. "Thank you to the Academy for this information and to everyone who helped bring this beauteous opus to the world.”

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Demi Moore

"Being nominated for an Oscar is an unthinkable grant and these past fewer months person been beyond my wildest dreams," the Substance histrion said. "Truly determination are nary words to afloat explicit my joyousness and overwhelming gratitude for this recognition. Not lone for maine but for what this movie represents. I americium profoundly humbled. This is simply a clip of unthinkable contrasts and close now, my bosom is with my friends, family, neighbors, and assemblage present successful LA.  The fires person devastated truthful galore lives but to spot the mode our assemblage has agreed leaves maine successful awe of the resilience and compassion that defines us, and this infinitesimal is simply a reminder of however unthinkable we are erstwhile we basal together."

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Ariana Grande

"picking my caput up successful betwixt sobs to accidental convey you truthful overmuch to @theacademy for this unfathomable recognition," the Wicked actress wrote connected Instagram. "i cannot halt crying, to nary one’s surprise."

The 2025 Academy Awards aerial Sunday, Mar. 2, astatine 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT connected ABC and Hulu.

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