The Emilia Pérez situation just keeps getting worse and worse. First, the film releases, which is bad enough, gaining a stunning 16% audience score on RT. Then comes the embarrassing BAFTAS speech. And now, they have completed the hat trick and provided the cringiest Oscars acceptance speech, which had me unable to look away.
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The terrible film itself was written by a French man who described the Spanish he wrote it in as "a language of modest countries, developing countries, of poor people and migrants." It has been universally panned by viewers.
However, for some reason, the awards companies seemed to like it, resulting in some of the cringiest acceptance speeches we've seen this year. The first was Zoe Saldana, as she took home the Best Supporting Actress role.
Saldana broke down on stage, weeping away and boring everyone senseless. She then had her acceptance speech cut off, resulting in a few expletives.
Now, the director's wife has managed to top this with an unsolicited sing-along that fell completely flat. At the end of the Oscars Best Original Song acceptance speech, Camille Audiard attempted to get the audience going with a rendition of 'Emilia, Emilia.' It was tonally flat in more ways than one.
The crowd gave a little bit of scattered applause, and her stage companions looked like they wished a trapdoor would open up beneath them.
Oscar's Acceptance Speech Is Just The Icing On The Cringe Cake For Emelia Pérez
Few people feel that the cinematic disaster of Emilia Pérez deserves any awards. The audience has spoken, and yet it is still winning Oscars. Their double bill of embarrassing acceptance speeches has only added to the bitter taste of apparently rigged awards.
People are not being quiet about their dissatisfaction with the awards being given to one of the worst films of the year. "The academy will never recover from all those nominations they gave to this horrible movie," one YouTube user comments.
Also, writing the film in a second language was a risk. Spanish is a nuanced language with a thousand small intricacies that immediately flag someone as a foreign speaker. Spanish speakers around the world are shocked by how bad the translations are. "They wrote it in French and probably used software to translate it, or they did it themselves. I thought it was a joke. Those who voted for this song didn't speak Spanish, that is the only explanation smh," one Latino comments.
Hopefully, this Oscar acceptance speech will be the last we have to hear from the cringiest film of the year.
