Karla Sofía Gascón Thanks the Academy for Inviting Her to Oscars Despite ‘Emilia Pérez’ Controversy

The Best Actress nominee also played into “fabulous host” Conan O’Brien’s monologue joke at her expense

Karla Sofía Gascón attends the 2025 Netflix Oscar after party at Chateau Marmont. (Credit: Gonzalo Marroquin/Getty Images)
Karla Sofía Gascón attends the 2025 Netflix Oscar after party at Chateau Marmont. (Credit: Gonzalo Marroquin/Getty Images)

Karla Sofía Gascón thanked the Film Academy for inviting her to Sunday night’s 2025 Oscars, despite her racist tweet controversy taking up so much attention this awards season.

“Thanks to the members of The Academy for the nomination for Best Actress, for the invitation to the gala; I really enjoyed it, very amiable and funny, especially your fabulous host Jimmy Kimmel, he is fantastic, every day he looks more like the great Conan O’Brien,” the “Emilia Pérez” star joked on Instagram on Monday, translated from Spanish via Meta.

“Loved hugging so many friends and colleagues on this homecoming.

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