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Oscars next year promises to be a mixed bag as Frannce selects a Spanish language film for its Best International Feature entry. The film is a thriller by Jacques Audiard and has already earned two major awards at the Cannes Film Festival.  

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Emilia Perez stars Karla Sofía Gascón as a fearsome drug lord who embraces her true self as a woman. The film stars an ensemble cast including Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz.

Emilia Perez got one of the longest-standing ovations at Cannes and went on to win the Jury Prize on top of the Best Actress Prize for the ensemble cast. 

Who is Jacques Audiard?

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He is a revered French auteur who won a Palme d’Or with Dheepan. His name was in the Oscars when he was previously nominated for a foreign-language Oscar with A Prophet starring Tahar Rahim.

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Emilia Perez has earned wide praise

As for Emilia Perez, the film fought severe competition to be enlisted for the Best International feature race along with The Count of Monte Cristo, Misericordia and Matthieu Delaporte.

Alexandre de La Patellière’s The Count of Monte Cristo was a box office hit in France and has since earned critical praise since world premiering out of competition at Cannes.

Last year the committee which decides the film to send for the Oscars race faced backlash for not picking Anatomy of a Fall and instead sent the culinary romance The Taste of Things. Anatomy of a Fall earned five Oscar nominations in major categories and won Best Original Screenplay. 

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