At the DGA Awards on Saturday night, The Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard included lead actress Karla Sofía Gascón when he thanked "his beloved actresses" despite all the controversy swirling around Gascón and Audiard's recent interview with Deadline in which he said,

Zoe Saldaña isn’t letting the controversy surrounding her “Emilia Pérez” costar Karla Sofía Gascón’s offensive social media comments take the joy out of her experience being recognized in the Oscar race,

The actress’s old social media posts have threatened to derail the film’s Oscar campaign, but backlash has been building for months for other reasons.