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.

Clément Ducol and Camille have won the 2025 Academy Award for Best Original Song for “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez. The songwriters will take home statuettes for the track, which is performed by Camille,

We are so grateful," said Camille, letting out a great "whoo hoo" as she and Clément Ducol accepted the Oscar for Best Original Song for El Mal in Emilia Perez. "We wrote El Mal as a song to denounce corruption and we hope it speaks to the role that music and art can play and

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

For a documentary about his life, John, 77, cowrote new tune “Never Too Late” with Brandi Carlile, Bernie Taupin and Watt. The English superstar is no stranger to the Academy, earning two previous best original song Oscars for The Lion King ’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” and Rocketman ’s " (I'm Gonna) Love Me Again.”

The song 'El Mal' from 'Emilia Perez' won the best original song Oscar, while Daniel Blumberg won best original score for 'The Brutalist.'

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.

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