Karla Sofía Gascón continued her disappearing act when she skipped out on the star-studded Oscar nominees dinner on Tuesday evening.

The 52-year-old disgraced actress has been absent from awards-season events in recent weeks after racist and Islamophobic tweets — some quite recent — were discovered on her public account on X (formerly Twitter).

Gascón is nominated for Best Actress and the upcoming Academy Awards, making her the first openly transgender star to be nominated in the category.

Her absence meant that she was missing from the official pH๏τo of the 2025 Oscar nominees class, which featured A-list stars including Wicked nominees Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, Demi Moore, Timothée Chalamet, Mikey Madison, Sebastian Stan and many more.

Despite skipping the event, a source previously told People that Gascón still intends to attend the Oscars. 

Although she may be lying low, her costar Zoe Saldaña has been out in force after recent wins at the BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Karla Sofía Gascón, 52, continued her disappearing act when she skipped out on the Oscar nominees dinner on Tuesday evening

Gascón missed out on the 2025 Oscar nominees class pH๏τo, which featured stars including Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, Demi Moore, Timothée Chalamet, Mikey Madison, Sebastian Stan and more

The 46-year-old Guardians Of The Galaxy star, who is nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category, looked glamorous in a backless burgundy dress. 

The dinner was held Tuesday evening at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, and the class pH๏τo was snapped in the museum’s 952-seat David Geffen Theater, where the museum’s most high-profile screenings and events. take place.

Gascón stars in Emilia Pérez as the тιтle character, a transgender woman who once lived as a male drug lord in Mexico before faking her death and reinventing herself.

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Saldaña costars as an ethically suspect lawyer who helps arrange Pérez’s gender-affirming care and sets up her new idenтιтy, while Selena Gomez has a supporting role as Pérez’s wife, who is left in the dark about her new life.

The film heads into Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony with 13 nominations, the most of any film this year.

In addition to the lead and supporting actress categories, it is competing for Best Picture, Best Director for Jacques Audiard, Best International Feature Film, and awards for adapted screenplay, film editing, sound, cinematography, makeup and hairstyling, original score and original song.

The film’s chances were thrown into jeopardy when Gascón’s old tweets were discovered. They included posts criticizing George Floyd that observers described as racist, along with anti-Muslim posts and tweets attacking the entire concept of diversity.

Gascón deleted her X account once the public posts received notice, but she didn’t help her case much with subsequent interviews featuring half-heart apologies and denials that her posts were racist.

Although Gascón may be lying low, her costar Zoe Saldaña, 46, has been out in force after recent wins. The Guardians Of The Galaxy star, who is nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category, looked glamorous in a backless burgundy dress

Gascón stars in Emilia Pérez as the тιтle character, a transgender woman who once lived as a male drug lord in Mexico before faking her death and reinventing herself. Saldaña plays an ethically challenged lawyer who helps set up her new life

Emilia Perez’s Oscar chances were thrown into jeopardy when Gascón’s old tweets were discovered. They included posts criticizing George Floyd that observers described as racist, along with anti-Muslim posts and tweets attacking diversity; seen in November in Mardrid

After Audiard appeared to criticize her in an interview for the film’s PR campaign, she wrote in an Instagram post from February 6 that she hoped her ‘silence will allow the film to be appreciated for what it is, a beautiful ode to love and difference. 

‘I sincerely apologize to everyone who has been hurt along the way,’ she added.

In an earlier apology, she included a tone-deaf line declaring that ‘light will always triumph over darkness,’ which angered critics who were already upset but what they saw as racists posts from her.

Although Audiard mentioned Gascón positively while accepting the foreign-language film award at the BAFTAs earlier this month, her costars have mostly opted not to mention her in recent weeks.

Last month, Saldaña called the controversy over her costar’s remarks ‘really sad.’

‘I don’t have any tolerance for any negative rhetoric towards people of any group,” she declared, though she continued to defend the Emilia Pérez.