At the Oscars in 2020, Netflix put its campaigning weight behind Martin Scorsese's gangster epic The Irishman. That film earned 10 nominations, but failed to win a single award. Five years later, though,

Clement Ducol, from left, Camille, and Jacques Audiard, accept the award for best original song for “El Mal” from” Emilia Perez” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

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.

After winning nearly every possible precursor award for her supporting work in Jacques Audiard’s musical crime dramedy “Emilia Pérez,” star Zoe Saldaña ended her first Oscar season with the ultimate prize: her first Oscar,