“But had I had that opportunity, I would have spoken up.”

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“That makes me very sad,“he said.

Jacques Audiard

Jacques Audiard at the 2025 Oscars.Credit:Frazer Harrison/WireImage

“Its very hard for me to think back to the work I did with Karla Sofia.

Its as if you fall into a hole.

Because what Karla Sofia said is inexcusable.”

Clément Ducol, Jacques Audiard and Camille Dalmais accept the Music Original Song award for ‘El Mal’ in “Emilia Pérez” onstage during the 97th Annual Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 02, 2025 in Hollywood, California.

Clément Ducol, Jacques Audiard and Camille Dalmais accept the Best Original Song Oscar.Kevin Winter/Getty

Oscars hostConan OBrienbegan the show witha joke about the Gascon controversyin his opening monologue.

“Little fact for you:Anorauses the f-word 479 times,” he joked.

“That’s three more than the record set by Karla Sofia Gascon’s publicist.

‘She tweeted what!?'”

Additional reporting by Maureen Lee Lenker.