Karla Sofía Gascón, nominated for the Oscar for best actress for ‘Emilia Pérez’

The Spanish interpreter Karla Sofia Gascón star of ‘Emilia Pérez’, is nominated for the best actress award in the 97th Oscars the awards given each year by the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. A gala will be held next March 2nd again at its usual venue, the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, and which will be hosted by presenter Conan O’Brien.

Actors, screenwriters and comedians Rachel Sennott (‘Saturday Night’, ‘The Idol’) y Bowen Yang (‘Wicked’, ‘The Lost City’) were in charge of announcing the list of nominees for the 23 categories of the Hollywood Academy Awards.

The other actresses nominated along with Karla Sofía Gascon for the Oscar for best leading performance are Demi Moore (‘The substance’), Cynthia Erivo (‘Wicked’), Mikey Madison (‘Anora’) and Fernanda Torres (‘I’m still here’).

Gascon She is the second Spanish actress to be nominated for an Oscar for best leading role. after the two candidacies of Penelope Cruz The actress, also born in Alcobendas (Madrid) like Gascón, competed for this award for the first time in 2007 for her work ‘Volver’ and also in 2022 for ‘Madres paralleles’, both filmed under the direction of Pedro Almodóvar. In addition, the protagonist of ‘Emilia Pérez’ also She has become the first transgender actress nominated in the entire history of the Hollywood Academy Awards.

This Oscar candidacy is new recognition for the Spanish actress who, after being awarded along with the rest of the cast of ‘Emilia Perez‘ at Cannes and won the award for best actress at the European Film Awards, she was also nominated by the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and by the BAFTA of the British Academy for the award for best female lead actor of the year.

Gascón was also nominated at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, but in the awards given each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), where she competed for the award for best actress in a comedy or musical, finally The winner was Demi Moore for ‘The Substance’.

13 NOMINATIONS, RECORD FOR EMILIA PÉREZ

Jacques Audiard’s musical thriller is the big favorite of this 97th edition with a total of 13 nominations, including best film, best foreign language film and best direction. TO ‘Emilia Pérez’, which with its 13 candidates is the non-English language film with the most nominations in historyfollow him, with ten candidates‘Wicked’ y ‘The Brutalist‘, y ‘A Complete Unknown‘ y ‘Conclave’, with eight nominations each.

After ‘Second Prize’, the film by Isaki Lacuesta chosen to represent Spain, will be left out of the cutthe nomination options for Spanish cinema in this edition of the Oscars were also placed on the soundtrack of Alberto Iglesias for ‘The Room Next Door’, the film by Pedro Almódovar. But the work of the San Sebastian composer was not among the five final candidates, which were ‘Wicked’, ‘Robot Salvaje’, ‘Conclave’, The Brutalist’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’.

Two Spanish-produced fiction short films had also passed the first pre-selection, ‘Paris 70‘, piece by Dani Feixas, and ‘The great work’by Àlex Lora, although none of them managed to be among the five Oscar nominees.

The 97th Academy Awards will take place on March 2already early on Monday the 3rd in Spain, and will be hosted by Conan O’Brien, who takes the baton from Jimmy Kimmel who served as master of ceremonies in the last three editions.

Among the new features this year, the Academy has announced that there will be a tribute to the victims of the fires that devastated the city of Los Angeles and that, breaking with tradition, the gala will not feature live performances of the songs nominated in the best original song category. Instead, the ceremony will highlight songwriters through personal reflections and behind-the-scenes commentary from the creative teams behind the scenes.