‘Emilia Pérez’ triumphs in the Critics Choice Awards under the absence of Karla Sofía Gascón

The Franco-Mexican film of ‘Emilia Pérez’ has triumphed in the Critics Choice Awards under the shadow of the controversy of actress Karla Sofía Gascón. The Hollywood public kept a sepulchral silence when the name of the Spanish interpreter was read. Demi Moore, with his performance in ‘The substance’, was one of the most Lauredas actresses of the night, in his speech he thanked the participation of the other nominees, without mentioning Karla Sofía Gascón.

Demi Moore won on Friday the Best Actress Award at the Choice Awards Critics confirming his favorite status for the Oscar in a week in which the scandal wrapped his rival in ‘Emilia Pérez’, Karla Sofía Gascón.

The horror film ‘The substance’, of the Megaestrella of the ninety Moore, also won the prize for the best original script in the dazzling gala held in Los Angeles by the largest group of critics in North America, which crowned “Anora” as the Best film of the year. Moore’s victory adds to that achieved in the Golden Globes in January, and places it on the way to culminate a remarkable rebirth of his career in the Oscar next month.

“It has been a wild trip,” said Moore, 62, who made a series of successful films in the 1990s, but became known both for his love life and for his performance in later decades.

That has changed with “The Substance”, a body horror film about a famous one that ages and injected a serum to live temporarily again in his young body. Moore thanked critics to reward “this genre of horror movies, who overlook and are not seen because of the depth they can have.”

But neither Audiard nor Zoe Saldana, who won the award for the best cast actress for ‘Emilia Pérez’, mentioned Gascon in their comments from the stage. A Netflix representative told AFP that they expected that “the actions of a person” would not “affect the entire film”, who is still in the race to win the award for the best film in the Oscars.

The career for the most coveted award of the Academy is unusually open this year. Friday’s ceremony was an important support for ‘Anora’, the winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Festival, about a young New York Stripper who marries the son of a Russian billionaire in an infamous lightning romance. Other contestants also achieved important victories on Friday.

The star of “The Brutalist” Adrien Brody won the award for best actor, “Conclave” won the award for the best adapted script and the best cast, and the Broadway adaptation “Wicked” won the award for the best director for Jon M. Chu .