Barbie at the 2024 Oscars? The race is on for Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling!

From billionaire to Oscar winner? According to variety, Warner Bros. At the next Oscar, Greta Gerwig’s film will be presented in several categories.

The biggest international box office hit of 2023 with $1.4 billion, Barbie could compete for Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director for Greta Gerwig, Best Actress for Margot Robbie, Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling, Best Original Screenplay. , Best Scenery, Best Costumes and Best Original Song.

For the latter, the studio still hesitated between two titles: What was I made for? By Billie Eilish or I’m just Ken By Andrew White and Mark Ronson, played by Ryan Gosling.

From “Just Ken” to “This Ken Has an Oscar”?

“He’s just Kenya”… but this Ken could have won an Oscar for his portrayal of Barbie’s partner in Greta Gerwig’s eponymous film and for the singing talent he developed after debuting in The Mickey Mouse Club.

This will be the third appointment Ryan Gosling In 2007 at the Half Nelson Oscar and in 2017 at the La La Land Awards. The actor could also meet Emma Stone’s co-star from Damien Chazelle’s film, because variety, the latter Disney should offer in the Best Actress category for her performance in Poor Creatures by Yorgos Lanthimos, who was already awarded the Golden Lion at the 80th Venice Film Festival. So Emma Stone would be in direct competition Margot Robbie.

In addition to the Best Actress statuette, Barbie’s Interpreter can also win Best Picture as a producer. Recall that the Australian actress has already been nominated for an Oscar for the film I, Tonya (as the best actress) in 2018 and Scandal (the best supporting actress) in 2020.

Already nominated for Oscars for Lady Bird (Best Original Screenplay and Best Director) in 2018 and The Daughters of Doctor March (Best Adapted Screenplay) in 2023. Greta Gerwig would win his 3rd nomination with Barbie and therefore had to compete for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay with his partner Noah Baumbach.

Barbie: Original or Adapted Screenplay?

A category that also posed a problem for feature film producers. The latter did not know whether he offered Barbie as an original script or an adapted script.

In the film, Barbie and Kenny venture into the real world and discover flaws in their seemingly perfect lives, leading them to transform Barbieland and find their true purpose.

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach wrote the original screenplay, which is neither based on the novel nor on any other adaptation. The credits also state that the film is based on Mattel’s ‘Barbie’, a doll created by the toy maker, rather than pre-existing written or filmed material.

So the studio chose to nominate Barbie for Best Original Screenplay.

According to varietyGerwig’s film will be up against Alexander Payne’s Winter Vacation and Celine Song’s Nos vies d’avant. Which will allow Barbie this time to not be in direct competition with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, as the latter is adapted from Kai Bird and Martin J. From Sherwin’s book. “Robert Oppenheimer: The Triumph and Tragedy of Genius“.

However, the two films nicknamed “Barbenheimer” should meet again in other categories, including best supporting actor, as Robert Downey Jr. should be nominated by Universal, but also best picture and best director. So the controversy continues…

Oscar nominations will be announced on January 23, and the ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 10.