Barbie: Warner Bros. will promote the film for Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars

Variety reports that Warner Bros. confirmed its intention to promote Barbie for the Oscar, in particular, presenting the film in the category “Best Original Screenplay”, which, if successful, will provide a nomination for the director. Greta Gerwig and to your creative and life partner Noah Baumbach. The confirmation comes after it was revealed that Warner Bros. initially I wasn’t sure whether to send Barbie for Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay. The confusion arose because Barbie is based on the Mattel doll franchise of the same name, making the film effectively an adaptation.

However, most of the film’s plot was invented by Gerwig and Baumbach, which allowed the script to be considered original. If indeed Barbie manages to get a nomination in this category, it will be the fourth for Gerwig, who already received an Oscar nomination for Lady Bird in 2016 for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, and then won third place, this time for Best Adapted Screenplay, in 2019 for Small woman. In any case, even if the Academy is promoted in this category, it may decide to reschedule the script. Barbie in Unoriginal, what has already happened to the film Moonlight 2016.

Barbie, film cast

From an Oscar-nominated writer and director Greta Gerwig (Little Women, Lady Bird) he arrives Barbie starring Oscar nominees Margot Robbie (Bomb – Voice of Scandal, Tonya

) AND Ryan Gosling (La La Land, Drive) in the role Barbie and Ken. Also in the cast with them America Ferrera (End of Watch – Zero Tolerancemovie How to Train Your Dragon), Kate McKinnon (Bomb – Voice of Scandal, Yesterday), Michael Cera (Scott Pilgrim Vs. peace, Juno), Ariana Greenblatt (Avengers: Infinity War 65 – Escape from Earth), Issa Rae (Photography – pictures of my mother, unsafe), Rhea Perlman (In my dreams Matilda 6 Mythical) AND Will Ferrell (Host, Ricky Bobby – The Story of the Man Who Could Count to One).

They are also part of the film’s cast. Ana Cruz Kane (Small woman), Emma McKee (Emily, Sex Education), Hari Nef (Assassination Nation, Transparent), Alexandra Shipp (movie X-Men), Kingsley Ben-Adir (That Night in Miami, Peaky Blinders), Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

), Ncuti Gatwa (Sex education), Scott Evans (TV series Grace and Frankie), Jamie Demetriou (Cruella), Connor Swindells (Sex education, Emma.), Sharon Rooney (Dumbo, idiot), Nicholas Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Girls), Ritu Arya (Umbrella Academy) and an Oscar Helen Mirren (Queen – Queen). The film was released in theaters on July 20.