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Say what you will about Emilia Pérez, there’s one thing the genre-defying Mexican gender-transition-crime-musical-drama has done well: Wow awards voters. After a stellar performance at the Golden Globes, taking home best movie-musical for its stars and writer-director Jacque Audiard, the Netflix flick did something of a repeat performance with the Academy. …

As fresh fires raced across the Los Angeles region, an embattled movie industry lined up behind Emilia Pérez, the Netflix narco-musical about transgender identity, in Oscar nominations on Thursday. A Spanish-language, French-made film, Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez led with 13 nominations, including best picture and best actress for Karla Sophia Gascon, making her …