Issues are wanting up for “Emilia Pérez.” France has chosen the upcoming Netflix launch as its submission for the Finest Worldwide Characteristic Oscar. Acquired by the streaming service out of Cannes, the movie received each the Jury Prize and Finest Actress prize for its feminine ensemble on the 2024 version of the annual worldwide movie pageant alongside the French Riviera.
The operatic crime drama a couple of fearsome Mexican drug cartel chief that enlists a plucky lawyer to assist coordinate their gender reassignment surgical procedure is written and directed by French auteur Jacques Audiard, whose 2009 movie “A Prophet” was one of many final of France’s submissions to obtain a Finest Worldwide Characteristic nomination.
The movie was chosen by revamped Oscar committee that includes 11 French professionals on each the creative and business facet of filmmaking, together with latest Oscar-nominated producers Nadim Cheikhroua (“4 Daughters”) and David Thion (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Oscar-winning filmmaker Florian Zeller, Golden Lion-winning “Taking place” director Audrey Diwan, and extra.
“Emilia Pérez” was on a shortlist with three different Cannes premieres from this yr: Grand Prix winner “All We Think about as Mild” from director Payal Kapadia, “The Depend of Monte Cristo” from director Alexandre de La Patellière, and “Misericordia” from director Alain Guiraudie.
Whereas the latter two movies appear unlikely to be the submission for another nation, there’s nonetheless some hope that “All We Think about as Mild” might be the Finest Worldwide Characteristic Oscar submission for India.
The buzzy “Emilia Pérez” submission comes a yr after France’s controversial option to submit Tran Anh Hung’s “The Style of Issues” over Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall.” Whereas the previous solely made it onto the Finest Worldwide Characteristic shortlist final December, “Anatomy of a Fall” went on to obtain the Oscar for Finest Authentic Screenplay, in addition to nominations for Finest Image, Finest Director, Finest Actress, and Finest Movie Enhancing.
After a profitable fall movie pageant relaunch, the place it developed buzz at Telluride, and was one of many runner-ups for the Individuals’s Alternative Award on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, “Emilia Pérez” appears pegged for the same trajectory, with the potential for lead Karla Sofía Gascón to develop into the primary trans Finest Actress nominee.
Co-stars Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez even have main Oscar buzz for the primary time of their careers for performances thought of to be Finest Supporting Actress contenders. As “Emilia Pérez” is a musical, Clément Ducol and Camille’s work on the movie has been pegged for Finest Authentic Tune and Finest Authentic Rating.
Ought to “Emilia Pérez” obtain the nomination for Finest Worldwide Characteristic, it is going to be the primary of France’s submissions to make it in since Ladj Ly’s “Les Misérables” in 2020. And may the Audiard movie win, it is going to be the primary time since Régis Wargnier’s “Indochine” in 1993 that the nation picked an eventual Finest Worldwide Characteristic Oscar winner.
