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,

Gascón missed a slew of awards season events after her past tweets disparaging Islam resurfaced before the Academy Awards.

The two stars of Emilia Pérez had to come face to face as they took their seats. They shared an interaction, their first public one since Gascón’s old tweets resurfaced. In one of them, she had referred to Selena as “a rich rat”.