He was born in Paris and is the son of Marie-Christine Guibert and Michel Audiard, a film director and screenwriter. During the 1980s, he started creating screenplays for movies such as Réveillon chez Bob!, Mortelle randonnée, Baxter, Fréquence Meurtre, and Saxo.

A number of aspects of the record-equaling movie have been criticized in Mexico, including Gomez’s performance.

Depending on who you ask, the audacious cartel musical is transphobic, an insult to Mexico, and not as good as Wicked. But is that fair?

The star earned some of the best reviews of her career out of the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of the opera icon Maria Callas. Director Pablo Larrain previously delivered Oscar nominations to two of his stars playing historical figures — Natalie Portman for “Jackie” in 2017 and Kristen Stewart for “Spencer” in 2022.

Emilia Pérez was recently nominated for 13 Oscars. However, it has become controversial due to its representation of transgender and Mexican communities.

Written and directed by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez tells the story of a Mexican named lawyer, Rita (Zoe Saldaña), who agrees to help a notorious drug cartel leader named Manitas (Karla Sofía Gascón) secretly transition to a new life as a woman named Emilia (also Gascón, who is a trans woman ).

The divisive Spanish-language musical “Emilia Pérez” sparked another controversy following its Oscar nominations haul, as Best Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón made—and quickly walked back—a claim that her fellow nominee Fernanda Torres’ team talks “badly about me and Emilia Pérez,

"Johanne Sacreblu," a parody of "Emilia Pérez" directed by filmmaker Camila Aurora, has gone viral online — and for good reason.

With the Academy Awards just weeks away, a “musical tribute” to the movie created by Mexican critics of the original is getting some attention. Titled “Johanne Sacreblue,” the Mexican-made French story has nearly 1.

The ongoing controversy surrounding the France-filmed Emilia Pérez, which leads this year's Oscars nominations with 13 total nods, has led to the release of a Mexican short film that playfully flips the script in direct response to the lack of Mexican actors and crew members in Emilia Pérez.

It may have been embraced by the Academy, but just a day after its debut in Mexico, the acclaimed “narco-musical” Emilia Pérez was already drawing sharp rebukes for superficial portrayals of sensitive

The French musical scored the most nominations of any movie this year, but it also faces criticism on multiple fronts.