Oscars

Netflix has dropped Karla Sofia Gascon, the star of “Emilia Perez,” from its high-profile Oscars campaign and distanced itself from the best actress nominee over her offensive social media posts, Hollywood trade outlets reported Tuesday.

“Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofía Gascón — the first transgender performer ever nominated for an Academy Award — also penned a lengthy apology amid the continued publicity crisis over the actor’s past social media posts in which Gascón repeatedly insulted Muslims, mocked George Floyd, and ridiculed diversity.

NEW YORK (AP) — Karla Sofía Gascón, the Oscar-nominated trans actor and star of the movie “Emilia Pérez,” is apologizing for her old posts on social media that denigrated Islam and that called George Floyd “a drug addict and a hustler.”

Oscar-nominated “Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofia Gascón has come under fire after old tweets have resurfaced showing Gascón making derogatory comments about Muslims, George Floyd, the COVID-19 vaccine, and Oscars diversity.

This pathetic culture of ours marches on with the news that Best Actress nominee Fernanda Torres has been forced to apologize for a 17-year-old blackface skit.

Oscars host Conan O’Brien says he’s still unable to live in his home due to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles and that the show’s organizers “want to be sensitive to what’s happened” to residents.

Netflix’s transgender best actress Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón raged at President Donald Trump over his executive order stating the U.S. government will recognize only “two sexes,” calling the president “shameless.”

Barely anyone turned out to see the controversial Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice” when it opened in cinemas late last year. But Academy voters clearly loved it enough to reward its two main actors — Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong — with Oscar nominations on Thursday.

Transgender cartel musical “Emilia Perez” topped this year’s Oscar nominations, earning 13 nods in an announcement on Thursday postponed by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

Karla Sofía Gascón — the transgender star of Netflix’s narco-musical “Emilia Perez” — has earned an Academy Award nomination for lead actress, making Gascón the first openly trans actor ever to receive an Oscar nomination.

Iconic horror author and far-left activist Stephen King is calling for the Academy Awards to be cancelled amid the wildfires still raging through the Los Angeles area.

The Oscars remain as scheduled, but it’s certain that they will be transformed due to the wildfires, and that most of the red-carpet pomp that typically stretches between now and then will be curtailed if not altogether canceled. With so many left without a home by the fires, there’s scant appetite for the usual self-congratulatory parades of the season.

The Oscar nominations for 2025 are being pushed back almost a week from their original date as the California wildfires continue their deadly rampage.

The victories of “Emilia Pérez,” a French musical about a Mexican transgender drug lord, at the Golden Globe Awards this weekend have prompted a wave of outrage and disgust in Mexico and throughout Latin America from critics who say the film trivializes the mass death caused by the drug war in that country.

Comedienne Nikki Glaser had a strong showing as host of the Golden Globes on Sunday night, keeping the ceremony largely politics-free while taking some subtle jabs at political correctness.

Actress Zoe Saldaña says the Oscars rejecting “Avatar” in its awards ceremony is “quite deflating,” adding that it makes her feel “overlooked and then minimized and completely disregarded.”

The Selena Gomez ballad “Mi Camino,” the Will Ferrell and Harper Steele road trip documentary “Will & Harper” and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s pulsating “Challengers” score are one step closer to an Oscar nomination. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled shortlists in 10 categories Tuesday, including for documentary, international feature, best song and score.

HBO’s “Succession” star Brian Cox has trashed the Academy Awards as “absolute nonsense,” saying the Oscars focus primarily on prestige movies released during so-called awards season.

The Disney Grooming Syndicate, which owns ABC and Hulu, is caving to reality in a way they hoped would never happen.

MARRAKECH, Morocco — Sean Penn on Tuesday blasted the organizers of the Oscars for being cowards who, in effect, limit the kinds of films that can be funded and made.

Late-night comedy show host Conan O’Brien will front the next Academy Awards a year after comedian Jimmy Kimmel was tapped for the second time to host the annual show.

Actress Halle Berry says she has been “eternally miffed” that no black woman has won the Best Actress award at the Oscars since her 2002 win.

American Fiction is not only hilarious and touching — it has something to say, but does so by uniting us through our shared humanity.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures finally added an exhibit acknowledging the men who created Hollywood, but it mostly trashes them.

The Academy Awards is doubling down on its embrace of woke social justice activism and DEI. The latest change: the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award — a staple of the Oscars since the 1950s — will now focus, at least in part, on equity.

Former President Donald Trump, the 2024 presumptive Republican presidential nominee, told Breitbart News exclusively that he was shocked late-night comedian and Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel walked right into his trap by reading his Truth Social post about Kimmel during the show.

Donald Trump took another pugilistic swipe at Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday, saying “he’s even dumber than I thought” after the late night host shared a critical appraisal from the former president at the Oscars ceremony.

Holocaust drama “The Zone Of Interest” filmmaker and Oscar-winner Jonathan Glazer is still earning pushback on his anti-Israel acceptance speech and now, even his film’s own executive producer is blasting him for attacking Israel during his comments on stage.

The Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation – USA slammed movie director Jonathan Glazer, who used his Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday to attack Israel for allegedly using the Holocaust to justify the war against Hamas in Gaza.

Actress Patricia Heaton has blasted Mark Ruffalo over his decision to use the Oscars to make political statements on abortion and Gaza.

With only 19.5 million viewers, Sunday night’s Academy Awards bombed with the fourth-lowest viewership in Oscar history.

Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel said he was told not to read former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post during Sunday’s live ABC telecast.

The Academy Awards are the belle of the ball of award season, where starlets and studs get to step out in their most glamorous ensembles.

The government of Israel condemned Oscar winner Jonathan Glazer’s comment Sunday evening that he and fellow filmmakers “refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being used to justify an occupation.”

The Academy Awards went big on diversity this year. The results would make a woke activist break down in tears: “Oppenheimer,” a movie about straight white men without a single minority in its cast, triumphed with seven Oscars, including awards for best picture, director Christopher Nolan, and actor Cillian Murphy.

Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel waited to the very end of the Oscars broadcast on Sunday to take aim at former President Donald Trump and the MAGA base.