Judd Apatow Blasts Academy's 'Barbie' Decision After Movie Shifted to Adapted Screenplay Category

received eight Oscar nominations including a coveted one for best picture.Pretty good, right?Of course not. In fact, it’s hugely offensive.

Eva Mendes has called out those who tried to “shame” her husband Ryan Gosling for taking on the role of Ken in Barbie.Gosling’s performance in the film has earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, while his song ‘I’m Just Ken’ (written and produced by Mark Ronson) is also nominated. However, the actor was initially criticised by some for taking on the roll of the plastic doll.Mendes shared one story published by Rolling Stone in June 2022 as an example.

Margot Robbie was “robbed” of a Best Actress nomination for Barbie at the 2024 Oscars.Barbie has earned eight Oscar nominations in total, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling, and Best Supporting Actress for America Ferrara, but the lack of a Best Actress nod for Robbie has resulted in a backlash against the academy.Robbie, who comes from Queensland, Australia, has however since received some light-hearted support from local authorities.Following the nominees announcement on Tuesday (January 23), Victoria Police wrote on Facebook: “POLICE INVESTIGATE AS MARGOT ROBBIED”.“Police are investigating after a former resident of Ramsay Street was allegedly robbed of an Oscar nomination for best actress,” they wrote, referencing Robbie’s former role on the Australian soap Neighbours.“We’d like to take this opportunity to remind all current residents of Ramsay Street and the rest of Victoria, to consider reporting any non-urgent crime, such as theft, via our online reporting tool,” they added. “It’s a convenient and easy way to submit a report with us any time of day.”POLICE INVESTIGATE AS MARGOT ROBBIED: Police are investigating after a former resident of Ramsay Street was allegedly…Posted by Victoria Police on Tuesday, January 23, 2024Barbie fans have also expressed outrage over the lack of a Best Director nod for Greta Gerwig.

Barbie’s Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig after they were both snubbed for Oscars has been roundly mocked online.Yesterday, the nominees for the 2024 Oscars were announced, with Barbie scoring a total of eight nods including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling and Best Supporting Actress for America Ferrera.One of the biggest talking points from the nominations announcement, however, were Robbie and Gerwig being snubbed for the prizes for Best Actress and Best Director respectively. Following the nominee announcements, fans took to social media to share their disbelief at the snubs.Clinton then took to X/Twitter to write: “Greta & Margot, While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you.

Barbie” star Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig after the pair were snubbed during the 2024 Oscar nominations. “Greta & Margot,” Clinton, 76, wrote on Instagram on Wednesday. “While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you.”“You’re both so much more than Kenough.

view on the alleged “Barbie” Oscar snubs. The EGOT winner slammed those who claimed “Barbie” had been snubbed by not earning for the 2024 Academy Awards during Wednesday’s episode of “The View.” “‘Barbie’ grossed over $1 billion. Hello, studios, maybe hire more female directors if you want to produce blockbusters,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said during the show’s “Hot Topic” segment.

Ryan Gosling has shared a statement detailing his disappointment with the Academy Awards (also known as the Oscars) after Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie were snubbed of major nominations for Barbie.Yesterday, the nominees for the 2024 Oscars were announced, with Barbie scoring a total of eight nods including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling and Best Supporting Actress for America Ferrera.Notably missing from those nominations are Best Actress for Margot Robbie and Best Director for Greta Gerwig. Following the nominee announcements, fans took to social media to share their disbelief at the snubs.Now, Ryan Gosling – who played Ken in the film – has shared a statement touching on the matter.

This should be a very good day for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. There is a diverse set of acting nominees with 7 of the 20 recepients being people of color.

“Oppenheimer.”But Lipa’s “Dance the Night” failed to snag a nod for Best Original Song. This despite the fact that the “Barbie” bop — which the singer co-wrote — was nominated for a Golden Globe earlier this month and is up for two Grammys, including Song of the Year, on Feb.

Oscar nomination but admitted it’s “disappointing” that her co-star, Margot Robbie, and the hit film’s director, Greta Gerwig, were snubbed by the Academy. Ferrera, 39, reacted to her best actress in a supporting role nomination in a statement to The Post on Tuesday, saying, “I’m stunned and so moved to be nominated among the brilliant artists who have done beautiful and important work this year.”“And I’m so proud to get to bring Latiné representation to this year’s Academy Awards, along with my fellow Latiné nominees,” she continued.

There are a million sayings that go something like this—don’t talk about shit that you know nothing about. The same can be said in terms of film critique.

walked back his comments slamming “Barbie” star Ryan Gosling “for doing that s – – t for money.”Stone, 77, said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that he made those incendiary comments last year before seeing the box-office behemoth, which snared eight Oscar nominations Tuesday — including one for Gosling as Best Supporting Actor and America Ferrera as Best Supporting Actress and has grossed over $1.45 billion worldwide.“At the time, I was busy promoting my nuclear documentary in Europe [‘Nuclear Now’] and had little to no knowledge of the project beyond its title,” Stone wrote, regarding his nuking of Gosling and “Barbie.”He said he saw the film in July “and appreciated the film for its originality and its themes.”“I found the filmmaker’s approach certainly different than what I expected,” he said. “I apologize for speaking ignorantly.”He also praised “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig’s 2017 movie “Ladybird” as “one of my favorites of that year.”” ‘Barbie’s’ box office greatly boosted the morale of our business, which was welcome,” he said.

Barbie have been left fuming by the absence of Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig from the Oscar nominations.The film did receive a total of eight nods, announced earlier today (January 23), including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling and Best Supporting Actress for America Ferrera.However, Gerwig missed out on the Director nominee list, with Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Yorgos Lanthimos, Justine Triet and Jonathan Glazer all getting in ahead of her.Similarly, Robbie was left without an acting nomination, with the spaces being filled by Emma Stone, Lily Gladstone, Annette Bening, Sandra Huller and Carey Mulligan. Margot does, however, receive a nomination for Best Picture for her role as a producer on the film.

Oliver Stone has suggested that Ryan Gosling is “wasting his time” making films like Barbie.Gosling played the role of Ken in last year’s hit Greta Gerwig film, earning huge acclaim including a recent BAFTA nomination for Supporting Actor.However, Stone – who has helmed films such as Platoon and JFK – criticised the film in a resurfaced interview with City A.M. from last year, hitting out at a “ridiculous” joke suggestion from Mattel’s boss that he could direct a Barbie sequel.“Ryan Gosling is wasting his time if he’s doing that shit for money,” Stone added. “He should be doing more serious films. He shouldn’t be a part of this infantilization of Hollywood.“Now it’s all fantasy, fantasy, fantasy, including all the war pictures: fantasy, fantasy.

BAFTA has responded to snubs in the recently announced nominations list.The nominees for the prestigious awards were announced this afternoon, with Oppenheimer continuing to receive high praise this award season with 13 BAFTA nominations, following another impressive evening at the Critics Choice Awards on January 15.However, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which received high critical acclaim and broke multiple box office records, only received five nominations after being longlisted for 15 categories.The movie, which was released in July last year, missed out on the nomination for Best Film, and Gerwig has not been recognised for her directing. Barbie has received nominations for Best Leading Actress (Margot Robbie), Best Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling), Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design and Best Production Design.BAFTA Head of Film, Anna Higgs, spoke about the nominations and omissions: “The field is so competitive.

Sharon Stone has revealed that she pitched a Barbie-related movie back in the 1990s, but her ideas were dismissed.The Total Recall actor commented on an Instagram post by America Ferrera of the speech the actor made when she accepted the SeeHer Award at the Critics Choice Awards on January 15.In the video, Ferrera acknowledged and thanked Barbie star, Margot Robbie, saying: “Margot, you saw value in Barbie, an entirely female idea that most would have dismissed as too girly, too frivolous or just too problematic.” She also added: “Thank you for gifting the world with Barbie.”Stone, aged 65, commented on the post: “I was laughed out [of] the studio when i came w the Barbie idea in the 90s w the support of the head of Barbie”.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Sharon Stone has revealed that she once attempted to pitch a “Barbie” movie to a Hollywood studio during the 1990s and was laughed out of the room. What a difference a couple of decades makes, as Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s “Barbie” opened last year and earned a staggering $1.4 billion to become the top-grossing film of 2023 and the biggest earner in Warner Bros.’ studio history.

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Dan Levy has revealed that he was offered the chance to play one of the Kens in Barbie, but had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts.The actor, who co-created the sitcom Schitt’s Creek with his father Eugene, confirmed the news in a new interview with People magazine, to promote his new film Good Grief, which is streaming on Netflix now.“Logistically could not make it work despite desperately trying to,” he said. “So, yeah, I guess I was I was technically unavailable to to do that.”“Does it haunt me when I sleep at night? Sometimes.

Barbie” director Greta Gerwig said Wednesday that she agrees with Jo Koy‘s joke that her box office hit was based “on a plastic doll with big boobies.” The joke came during Koy’s opening monologue for Sunday’s award ceremony, where he stated that: “‘Oppenheimer’ is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and ‘Barbie’ is on a plastic doll with big boobies.”Despite being slammed on social media by one netizen who called the joke sexist, Gerwig admitted that Koy, 52, had a point. “Well, he’s not wrong,” Gerwig, 40, laughed while chatting with BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program.