NEW YORK — Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” is an Oscar contender unlike any other. It’s a musical, a trans parable, and a Mexico-set melodrama, all combined into one unique amalgamation by an international filmmaking team. And just as singularly, it’s a best picture front-runner that, it sometimes seems, no one likes.

The furor over racist and anti-Muslim tweets from Best Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón has left the Oscar campaign for Gascón and her film, "Emilia Pérez," badly damaged and perhaps even crippled,

I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt," Gascón said in her apologyEmilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón has deactivated her Twitter/X account after issuing an apology over controversial posts she previously made on the platform.