Quotes
Certainly, this shallow understanding of trans people can’t still be interesting to cis people. How many times do cis people have to learn about us before a portrayal like this one rings as false to them as it does to me?”
Drew Burnett Gregory, writing for Autostraddle, stated
We will reflect on the recent events while highlighting the strength, creativity, and optimism that defines Los Angeles and our industry,
Bill Kramer, academy chief executive, and Yang said in an email to members Wednesday
I’m a Los Angeles native and so there’s been so much devastation these past few weeks and my heart breaks for L.A. but it’s really beautiful to see everyone coming together,
Madison said ThursdayMexico hates Emilia Pérez/ 'Racist Euro Centrist Mockery'/ Almost 500K dead and France decides to do a musical."
Mexican screenwriter Hector Guillen tagged the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who run the Oscars, the day after the Globes and published a poster saying
There's a drug war, nearly 500,000 deaths since 2006 and 100,000 missing in the country."
Speaking to the BBC, Guillen called Audiard "a great filmmaker," but added
I feel like I'm on a rock'n'roll tour."
Audiard said
I was thinking about that day the other day,
Audiard, dubbed the Scorsese of French cinema for his gritty films about low-lifers and outsiders, said when asked about his prospects for taking home a statuetteIt's a Spanish-language film that was shot in Paris. It's a mongrel film,
he defendedThey (Americans) will have to reassert themselves and regain confidence, which they will probably do through their cinema industry,
the 72-year-old filmmaker predicted