Oscars CEO condemns hate speech but urges respect if Karla Sofa Gascn shows up

Even the top brass is commenting on the scandal. Before the 2025 Oscars on Sunday, academy CEO Bill Kramer spoke out about the controversy surrounding “Emilia Perez” star Karla Sofia Gascón.Gascon, 52, is the first transgender woman to get a best actress nomination – before she swiftly fell from grace after her controversial social media posts resurfaced in January.“The Academy does not condone hate speech — I want to be very clear about that,” Kramer told The Hollywood Reporter.“Karla’s nomination is historic.

That’s really important.She’s still a nominee.

We honor that, but we do not condone hate speech.”He added that “all nominees are invited to attend the show,” and “that stands” for Gascón if she chooses to go.“If Karla joins us for the night, I hope there is an air of respect,” Kramer continued.“We have over 200 nominees.

The night is about much more than one person.We are there to celebrate all of our nominees.”Kramer has been the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2022.Gascón’s old posts on X, formerly Twitter, have since been deleted.According to Variety, in a 2021 post reacting to that year’s Oscars, the Spanish star wrote, “More and more the #Oscars are looking like a ceremony for independent and protest films, I didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8M.

Apart from that, an ugly, ugly gala.”In another since deleted post, she allegedly wrote: “Honestly, I think that very few people ever cared about George Floyd, a drug addict swindler, but his death has served to once again demonstrate that there are people who still consider Black people to be … without rights and consider policemen to be assassins.They’re all wrong.”As she got backlash to her posts, Gascón released a statement to People.“I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt.

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