r/movies shids and fards and pearl clutches when its revealed emilia perez won awards despite being revealed that the actor was a CHUD

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I will genuinely never understand what these people see in Emilia Perez, it's shocking how many awards it's winning

Hollywood wants to pat itself on the back for making a movie about a transgender character.

I can't even find anyone who likes it. With Green Book or Crash, I get it. I knew lots of people who liked those movies even if they didn't think they were awards contenders. Only 3 movies have ever had more noms than Emelia Perez. Genuinely wild.

I can find 100s of comments on reddit alone praising the movie before the CHUD reveal

Voting closed prior to the recent drama surrounding Emilia Pérez, so that's something to consider. However, the movie is a piece of trash to begin with and the director is a turd bag to boot

It's a dogshit movie made by a director who's almost as much of a shit person as the lead actress herself, and I kinda hate that going forward, the only reason it won't be awarded as much as it is now is bc of KSG's antics—bc it deserves zero awards for its quality alone.

It's so bad. I had unfortunately heard the complaints before I went to watch it, but went in with an open mind. The thing that makes me the angriest is that by all surface metrics I should like a film like this. I have a number of close friends who are trans and who I've been close to during their various transitions. Been a person who was there for them as they dealt with their families falling apart. I'm straight and cis but this is near and dear to me.

But the film is just terrible. I couldn't find any empathy for the characters. Maybe it's the flat acting by some normally amazing people. There's no character building. The songs are also flat, both in expressiveness and tonality. I speak pretty decent Spanish so it wasn't a language barrier. I knew what they were saying for 90% of it and had subtitles for the rest. The melodies, if you can call them that, seem low effort. The lyrics in a few of the songs had me laughing at how inane they were, and I'm not talking about the Thai s*x clinic song that everyone rightfully ridicules. Musicals are known for silly songs but that's on purpose. This is trying to take itself seriously. The cinematography is questionable. I was amazed to see it was nominated for that. It's just uncreative and again, flat. Boring. Not groundbreaking. Not even mildly interesting.

And even with all of that, it could still be salvageable. But you have an old French cis dude writing in Spanish about Mexican trans people?! And then directing it? What is this insanity? I could go on but it's a kick in the face that I (and many others including many in the LGBT+ community) now get to be the buttholes who are saying this apparent masterpiece doesn't deserve any of these nominations. So yeah frick the Academy for their gratuitous self congratulatory bullshit. These are some of the same people who think Roman Polanski did nothing wrong. Frick em.

Emilia still won a lot is interesting. Either votes have been locked for months now or the Hollywood inner circle dont care for the discourse. Wonder how Oscar will do though

Voting closed prior to the drama

I guess the Oscar Jannies LOCKED the thread

Whatever this guy is smoking I will NOT have it

I'm not a fan of the film either, but we just can't ignore that apparently a lot of people see quality in this film and it extends outside the Academy. It's a polarizing movie, with great disparity in the Rotten tomatoes score (72% vs 17% lol) and even though I feel like it's a weird mess, a lot of people find something greatly enjoyable about the film.

For instance, at the Toronto International Film Festival. It has around 480.000 attendees. Regular movie goers. They're not millionaires or Academy members. Of all the films on the program they can vote for the ones they love the most, the People's Choice Award, they voted for Emilia Perez. And it got the runner-up prize there.

The Cannes jury (listed below) awarded it as well, even consisting of J.A. Bayona who speaks Spanish.

• Greta Gerwig, American actress and filmmaker – Jury President

• J. A. Bayona, Spanish filmmaker

• Ebru Ceylan, Turkish actress and screenwriter

• Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor and producer

• Lily Gladstone, American actress

• Eva Green, French actress

• Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japanese filmmaker and producer

• Nadine Labaki, Lebanese actress and filmmaker

• Omar Sy, French actor

People keep mentioning the 13 Oscar nominations. Well, it got 15(!) BAFTA nominations. The British Academy consists of over 13000 people.

Denis Villeneuve called it one of the best movies of the year.

"I really loved Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez. I thought that it was very original and inspiring. Jacques Audiard's movies always give me a boost of energy, he's one of our best filmmakers."

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James Cameron loved it.

"What I saw that blew me away was Emilia Pérez. I have seen it three times now. It's just not like any other film that's ever been made, you know? I mean, I think it's bold, it's daring, it's a vision. It's beautifully executed. It's a beautiful piece of filmmaking."

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I am equally baffled by it. I can understand some of the praise of it. I gave it a 5/10, but it's nowhere near my top spots in any categories, but we can't just stick to the Reddit sphere and ignore that there is incredible passion for the film.

If Emilia Pérez wins any Oscars, the Academy is a farce.

really neighbor, only now you say this? because of the CHUDening ?

Emilia Perez won Best Foreign Language Film here, it's sending me. "'Emilia Pérez,' its beleaguered star Karla Sofia Gascon not present (as she is not expected to be for the rest of awards season), won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Song (for 'El Mal'), and Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña." So the "most prizes" isn't too egregious for Emilia Perez considering it's those, only three, awards.

Its winning of Best Foreign Language Film is such an irony when the film has been widely panned for stereotyping Mexico, its actors' poor accents, the inaccurate contexts of its dialogues, and made by a director who doesnt speak the language and apparently said Spanish is a language of poor countries (paraphrased) in an interview.

!kino !chuds if anything Hollywood should start casting redditors because they are so good at acting as if this is was their opinion all along