The filmmaker recalled that, despite not being nominated in the Best Director category, he received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay
Greta Gerwigdirector of Barbiethe highest-grossing film of 2023, spoke for the first time about its absence in the Best Director category at the 2024 Oscars and denied having been snubbed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the biggest cinema award.
“A friend’s mom said to me, ‘I can’t believe you weren’t nominated’. I said, ‘I was! I was nominated for an Oscar!'”the filmmaker recalled to the magazine Teamciting her nomination, along with her husband and co-worker, Noah Baumbach, in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.
Despite highlighting her nomination for Best Director, Gerwig admitted that she was upset about not seeing Margot Robbiewho played the protagonist of Barbieamong those nominated for Best Actress: “Of course I wanted [uma indicação] for Margot. But I’m just happy that we’ll all be [na premiação] together”celebrated.
About Barbie
In Barbiethe most famous doll in the world, played by Margot Robbie (The Suicide Squad), starts to have problems when Barbieland, his perfect world, stops being so perfect. To get everything back to normal, she decides to go to the Real World to discover the root of the problem.
However, the merciless president of the company that makes Barbie dolls will not let her wander our world for long and will pursue her until she is perfectly safe in her perfect world… which is no longer so perfect when she returns, thanks The Ken (Ryan Gosling, La La Land: Singing Seasons).
In addition to Robbie It is Goslingthe cast of Barbie still has Alexandra Shipp (Tick, tick… BOOM!), Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Emma Mackey (Sex Education), Kingsley Ben-Adir (Secret Invasion), Issa Rae (Insecure), Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who), Hari Nef (The Idol), John Cena (Peacemaker) and the singer Dua Lipaamong others, such as different versions of Barbie and Ken.
America Ferrera (Superstore), Ariana Greenblatt (Ahsoka), Will Ferrel (Stranger Than Fiction), Connor Swindells (Sex Education), Emerald Fennell (Beautiful Revenge), Michael Cera (Superbad: It’s Today) It is Helen Mirren (Shazam: Fury of the Gods), among many others, complete the cast.
Greta Gerwig (Little Women) drives Barbiebut also signs the film’s script together with her co-worker and husband, Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, White Noise). Watch the trailer:
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- American Fiction
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Source: Rollingstone
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