Two visions of the trauma of disappeared people in Latin America had a central role at Sunday's Academy Awards.

El Mal,″ from the controversial musical “Emilia Pérez,” won best original song at Sunday’s 97th Academy Awards.

Emilia Pérez was already the villain of the 2025 Oscars, but songwriter and French singer Camille Dalmais didn’t help her film’s reputation when she started singing, unprompted, during her acceptance speech for Best Original Song.

Clément Ducol and Camille, songwriters of “Emilia Pérez,” on shaping the film’s operatic world, and how they’re handling the controversies the film has sparked.

The 97th Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O'Brien, returned to Hollywood on Sunday. Sean Baker's "Anora" was the big winner of the night, taking home five awards. Read the full list of winners (italicized) below.

Clément Ducol, Jacques Audiard, and Camille, March 2025 (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

El Mal,” the show-stopping number sung by Zoe Saldaña in Netflix’s “Emilia Perez,” won the best song Oscar Sunday night for French songwriters Camille and Clément Ducol and their co-writer, the film’s director Jacques Audiard.

In the end, Emilia Pérez won only two Oscars, potentially resulting from the backlash against the film after the discovery of some offensive tweets by Gascón that were posted in 2020 and 2021.