Given the annual phenomenon that the Oscar awards are, the anticipation just a few days before the big showdown is almost always through the roof. But 2025 seems to have heard the gazillion pleas on the Internet about wanting it to be different, as just a month in it has proven to be an iconoclast as the Best Picture contenders at Oscars 2025, rather than basking in the glow of prestige, find themselves tangled in scandal, each film dragging behind it a train of controversy long enough to trip even the most practiced red-carpet walker. And the biggest player this year, Emilia Pérez, has maintained the quantity in this case too.

Emilia Pérez kicked off its journey with a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival and reached the Academy Awards 2025 at the record-shattering speed of thirteen nominations. However, things quickly unraveled from the Oscar awards being at its feet to now a bile of controversies rising till its neck when hate tweets of Karla Sofía Gascón made waves. The movie unfortunately is not the only one facing fans' wrath, as they have also dragged Netflix for nominating it over movies like His Three Daughters and Maria.

The Selena Gomez starrer is a Netflix original and was the streamer's biggest hope to score an Oscar and more this year. But despite the large pile in of Oscar nominations, the movie, even apart from the controversy that it has now been embroiled in, has quite contrasting reviews, with some even deeming it the worst movie of the decade.

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Regardless of why the movie has garnered such a sweet and bitter reaction from the audiences, fans strongly believe that Netflix had better chances with other titles at this years Oscars.

Netflix has always boasted of a plethora of titles ranging from thrilling to romantic and then from brain rot to awards won. Therefore, when it nominated Emilia Pérez for the Best Picture category at Oscars 2025, even before it found itself in controversy, fans could not believe the OTT mogul crowned it over His Three Daughters and Maria.

Owing to the spectacular performances, especially by Elizabeth Olsen, paired with the intricately designed plot, fans were really rooting for His Three Daughters. The same was the case for Angelina Jolie and her standing ovation-inducing performance in Maria.

The two movies are the next batch of suggestions to come from the audience who are simply done with this year's Best Picture contenders and would do anything for a re-election of nominees. While that is unlikely to happen, it has become clear that, even if Emilia Pérez perseveres through its storm of controversies, it will fail to be a mass winner.

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