Golden Globe watchers slammed Hollywood on Sunday night for being out of touch after a transgender-themed film won Best Picture for a Musical or Comedy of 2024, beating out blockbusters like Wicked.
At the 82nd annual awards ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Emilia Pérez, which blends genres as a musical crime comedy-drama about a Mexican drug lord who decides to undergo transgender surgery, took home several Golden Globes, and social media blew up about it.
“Emilia Pérez, a film about a drug cartel boss ‘transitioning’ into a woman, just won Best Picture at the Golden Globes. Hollywood continues to be absolutely out of touch with America,” one person wrote on X.
Another added, “When it comes to ‘Emilia Perez,’ the disconnect between industry insiders and the people this movie claims to represent—Hispanics—is impossible to overstate. It’s like the ‘Latinx’ debacle all over again: non-Latino elites imposing something on Hispanics that they neither asked for nor want.”
A third person wrote, “Much love but ‘Emilia Pérez’ is a terrible movie and it winning over ‘The Substance,’ ‘Challengers,’ ‘Anora,’ ‘A Real Pain,’ and ‘Wicked’ is a f**kin joke!!!”
And a fourth person pointed out “that ‘Emilia Perez’ is a