Karla Sofía Gascón will not vote for the next best picture winner. The Spanish actress, who was nominated this year for best actress for “Emilia Pérez”, was not on the list of 534 people As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited to join. Gascón’s co -star Adriana Paz, who was not nominated, was invited among the 2025. Their “Emilia Pérez” co -star Zoe Saldaña, who won this year for best actress, was already a member.
While an Oscar nomination automatically qualifies someone for Academy membership, an invitation is not a guarantee. In this case, the actor’s branch would make a recommendation and then the Academy Board of Governor’s final word. But Gascón, who was in the middle of a prolonged controversy In the past winter due to the discovery of racist tweets she has previously sent, only the second first best actress is nominated from the last ten years who are not offered Ampas membership immediately after their nomination. (Yalitza Aparicio from “Roma” was nominated in 2019 and was not invited to join the academy until 2020.)
Conversely, the latest nominated Lily Gladstone, Sandra Hüller, Second Day, Cynthia Erivo, Lady Gaga, Ruth Negga and Brie Larson were immediately invited to join. (Michelle Yeoh, Ana de Armas and Andrea Riseborough had already been invited before their first Oscar nominations.)
Gascón made history in January when she became First open trans Woman to be nominated for an actor. But the happy milestone was overshadowed days later by the tweet scandal, which involved major remarks about George Floyd, Anti -Islam and vaccination and complaints that earlier Oscars ceremonies had been too awake.
The controversy hit right during the high campaign season. Gascón issued multiple apology (one of them on CNN in Spanish) and jumped over Key prices Events leading to Oscars, which speculates speculation that she would not participate in the ceremony. A few days before the show, Academy CEO Bill Kramer condemned the actress tweets (“The academy does not condone hate rings – I want to be very clear about it,” he said at that time) but did not revoke his invitation to the ceremony. In the end she attended, weather -bitten host Conan O’Brien’s inevitable joke about the event and shortly after Executive that she was committed to “continuing to learn and listen.”
The academy had no comment about Gascón’s exclusion from the list of new invited.
(Steve Pond contributed to this report.)
