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. Congratulations to all the winners, especially to Clément Ducol, Camille, Zoe Saldaña,” she added. “Thank you Jacques Audiard, Netflix, Why Not Productions. Thank you ‘Emilia Pérez’ for teaching me so many things.”
Speculation on whether Gascón would show up at the show was high after her awards campaign was derailed by years-old racist tweets resurfaced by a freelance journalist. Her fellow “Emilia Perez” nominees – including Zoe Saldaña – distanced themselves following the scandal but Gascón showed up on the big night nonetheless.
She didn’t make it through the Oscars unscathed. O’Brien singled out Gascón during his monologue with a joke that earned him some audible “oohs” from the audience.
“’Anora’ uses the f-word 479 times. That’s more than the record set by Karla Sofía Gascón’s publicist,” he joked, pretending to be said publicist and angrily screaming into a fake phone.
O’Brien continued with a bit that Gascón called back to in her social media message, ““Karla if you are going to tweet about the Oscars tonight, my name is Jimmy Kimmel.”
