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Emilia Pérez wins top Spanish film prize amid Karla Sofía Gascón furore

Best European film at Goya awards goes to movie at the centre of a storm over past social media posts written by its star, Karla Sofía Gascón

Gascón – who has apologised for the comments – has been dropped by her publisher, criticised by prominent politicians and is already understood to have been removed from the film’s campaigning materials by its studio, Netflix. “If the people at the Academy were convinced that Karla Sofía Gascón deserved an Oscar for her work on Emilia Pérez, there’s no reason why they should feel differently today,” he wrote. Another writer and journalist, Manuel Jabois, told Cadena Ser that “anyone who doesn’t feel a bit sorry for her has a problem”, while acknowledging that there was a debate to be had about how to separate Gascón’s “artistic talent from her disgusting and racist” opinions.

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