#except that it ends not with the academy realizing that the emperor wasn't wearing anything at all this whole time

[petr1kov]

and it's great that 'i'm still here' won for best international picture, don't get me wrong, but it's also extremely frustrating to think about how the only reason it was even given a fighting chance to begin with wasn't because of how genuinely good it is, but because the academy voters had to scramble to come up with something to replace their vote on emilia pérez, which only happened because karla sofía gascón was so racist on twitter she tanked the movie's entire reputation. every other criticism that mexicans or the trans community had about this movie definitely would still continue to be completely ignored, and this oscar would have 100% gone to them