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‘El Mal’ Triumphs in Oscars’ Best Original Song Category to Give ‘Emilia Perez’ a Win
The song 'El Mal' from 'Emilia Perez' won the best original song Oscar, even with the film competing against itself with two noms in the category.
“El Mal,” the show-stopping number sung by Zoe Saldaña in Netflix’s “ Emilia Perez,” won the best song Oscar Sunday night for French songwriters Camille and Clément Ducol and their co-writer, the film’s director Jacques Audiard. The song in Audiard’s operatic drama is a three-minute tour de force for Saldaña as lawyer Rita Castro, a fantasy in which she dances around a room filled with the rich and powerful, decrying the hypocrisy of those responsible for the murders of thousands of Mexicans during the drug wars. The French songwriting duo were also up for best score for “Emilia Perez.” Camille, whose surname is Dalmais, is a well-known singer-songwriter in France, with hit albums “Le Fil,” “Music Hole,” “Ilo Veyou” and “Oui” over the past 20 years.
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