Transgender-Themed Movie Sweeps Golden Globes — And People Aren’t Happy
By Movieguide® Staff
EMILIA PÉREZ, a transgender-themed movie, took home the Golden Globes award for Best Picture for a Musical or Comedy of 2024, and viewers aren’t happy.
“The French-produced, mostly Spanish-language movie tells the story of a Mexican cartel boss who attempts to escape the drug trade by undergoing a sex-change operation to become a ‘woman.’ Real-life transgender actor Karla Sofía Gascón — a biological man who identifies as a woman — plays the title role,” Breitbart reported.
The movie earned less than $10 million at the box office but beat out higher-earning flicks including WICKED (currently the No. 6 movie of 2024) to take home the Best Picture for a Musical or Comedy award.
EMILIA PÉREZ won three other prizes as well: Best Non-English Language Motion Picture, Best Song in a Motion Picture and Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role — Zoe Saldaña.
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Viewers, however, dragged the Golden Globes for awarding the movie.
“EMILIA PÉREZ, a film about a drug cartel boss ‘transitioning’ into a woman, just won Best Picture at the Golden Globes. Hollywood continues to be absolutely out of touch with America,” an X user wrote.
Another user said, “When it comes to EMILIA PÉREZ, the disconnect between industry insiders and the people this movie claims to represent—Hispanics—is impossible to overstate. It’s like the ‘Latinx’ debacle all over again: non-Latino elites imposing something on Hispanics that they neither asked for nor want.”
Another X user pointed out that it’s a “spanish musical directed by a french director who doesn’t speak spanish and hates musicals. @goldenglobes you should be ASHAMED of yourselves for awarding such trash.”
But Hollywood isn’t likely to wake up to what Americans really want this awards season.
“EMILIA PÉREZ is widely expected to score multiple Academy Award nominations this week, with Netflix’s formidable publicity machine ratcheting up the buzz around the Jacques Audiard-directed movie,” Breitbart noted.
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