The film stars Zoe Saldana as Rita, a lawyer forcibly recruited by a crime boss, Manitas, played by Karla Sofía Gascón, who wants to undergo gender-confirming surgery to become a woman. She emerges as Emilia Pérez, but will not give up a connection to her wife, Jessi, played by Selena Gomez, and her children.

Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language cartel musical has garnered a lot of buzz this Oscar season — good and bad. Here's everything to know about the 'Emilia Pérez' discourse.

It's a different story with home viewing, as seen by the current charts at iTunes (listing by transactions) and Fandango (revenue). Of their 20 total positions, 12 are held by films with at least one nomination.

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” leads the nominations with 13, including best picture and a best actress nod for Karla Sofía Gascón, the first openly trans actor ever nominated. See the full list.

The only other time that two musicals have each received double-digit Oscar nods in the same year was at the 1965 ceremony, where Mary Poppins had 13 nods, while My Fair Lady had

Netflix's Spanish-language musical "Emilia Perez" topped the list of movies nominated on Thursday for Academy Awards, followed by "The Brutalist" and "Wicked." "Emilia Perez," the story of a Mexican drug lord who transitions to a woman and starts a new life,

As fresh fires raced across the Los Angeles region, an embattled movie industry lined up behind the Netflix narco-musical about transgender identity "Emilia Pérez" in Oscar nominat… Marilyn Manson won’t face sexual assault,