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Gascón had found herself in the crosshairs of controversy shortly after making history as the first openly-transgender actress nominated in the Best Actress category.

In the Best Supporting Actress category, Saldaña appears the heavy favorite to capture the honors over fellow nominees including Wicked's Ariana Grande; The Brutalist's Felicity Jones; Conclave's Isabella Rossellini; and A Complete Unknown's Monica Barbaro. Gascón stars as the title character, a former Mexican drug lord who comes out as a transgender woman and fakes her own death in order to reinvent herself as a pro-social force, while Saldaña plays an ethically challenged lawyer who helps set up her new identity. In the supporting actress category, the nominees including Monica Barbaro for A Complete Unknown, Ariana Grande for Wicked, Felicity Jones for The Brutalist, Isabella Rossellini for Conclave and Zoe Saldaña for Emilia Pérez

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