'Emilia Perez' causes discourse after Golden Globes 2025

Last night was Golden Globes 2025 night, the start of the award season for many, and 'Emilia Perez' made a big impact, taking home 4 awards total throughout all categories, being the movie with the most awards of the ceremony.

If you are a movie fan, you now that the Golden Globes are preparation and set up for the Academy Awards, and the winners are another way of giving you an idea of who's getting a nomination for the Oscars.

'Emilia Perez' securing these awards (Best Supporting Actress; Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy; Best Motion Picture, Non-English Language; Best Original Song) means it's all set and ready to receive the most nominations for the Oscars, and a possible sweep when it comes to actually taking the awards.

And this is not a case where everyone is happy about it, or at least most people, and the fan favorite is taking home the prize, but rather a case where a very polarizing and heavily criticized movie (by the general public) is receiving all the flowers from the industry.

A lot of directors, actors, and Latin American critics and audiences have been talking about how problematic it is that a movie like 'Emilia Perez' is receiving all this buzz while other, actually Latin productions, don't have the same exposure or praise.

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The movie is by french film director Jacques Audiard, with Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofia Gascón as the lead actresses. None of which are Mexican. The biggest gripe with the project, is that it tries to tackle a very serious topic for Mexico in a very distasteful way, with no Mexican people involved in the process.

Eurocentrism, cultural appropriation and xenophobia are some of the things that people are accusing the film of, do you think the Academy voters are gonna listen to the general public or the film is going to sweep the competition?