Oscar 2024: Greta Gerwig, the director of Barbie, and the affront that makes her one of the main protagonists of the ceremony

AS Barbiethe record-breaking film he wrote and directed, Greta Gerwig (40) has become a cultural phenomenon. When the Oscar nominations were announced in January, though Barbie picked up eight, including best picture, many lamented Gerwig’s omission in best director.

She was nominated in that category in her directorial debut, Ladybugshe was the fifth woman to reach this milestone in 2018.

After raising $1.4 billion worldwide and with unanimous acclaim from critics and audiences for the iconic reinvention of the Mattel doll, this year’s nomination seemed a given.

“Barbie can be an astronaut but not win an Oscar as a director”, they stated on the web.

The former first lady Hillary Clinton participated in the media discussion that was generated, comparing himself with Gerwig and Margot Robbiethe actress who lent her body and heart to her “stereotypical Barbie” and She also wasn’t nominated for Best Actress.

“Although it is very bad to win at the box office, but do not take gold, your millions of fans love you,” Hillary Clinton encouraged them, recalling that she won the popular vote on Donald Trump in the 2016 election, but had to see how he became president for adding more votes in the Electoral College.

“The Chronicles of Narnia” is coming

As a consolation prize, Greta Gerwig has a chance to win her first Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay Barbiewhich she will share with her husband, the screenwriter Noah Baumbach.

For now, another record Gerwig has broken is that he succeeded The three films he directed were nominated for an Oscar as best film.: Ladybug, Little Women AND Barbie.

Greta, a Californian who now resides in Manhattan with her husband and two young children, wanted to study musical theater but ended up in college with a degree in literature. Although she initially worked as an actress, it’s clear that she found her passion in writing and directing.

In the same week that the Oscars are awarded on Hollywood Boulevard, the magazine time he put it on the cover as the face of “extraordinary leaders who are building a more equitable future”.

What stands out is her feminist vision and the passion with which she now prepares to reimagine another very popular fantasy world, that of The Chronicles of Narnia, by the British writer CS Lewis. Prepare two films for Netflix. He acknowledges that he grew up loving cinema (he saw it Titanic 8 times) and that his approach to Narnia was born from an intuition.

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Greta doesn’t hold a grudge for the missed nomination that everyone is talking about (except her) and assures that she will enjoy all the results obtained this Sunday 10 March at the Dolby Theatre. one of the most subversive films of last year.

He does not say whether he will use the pink color as he has done in other awards ceremonies, but the driver will certainly do so on Sunday Jimmy Kimmel He will make her the center of his jokes by recreating this controversy. It amuses her to know that Ryan Gosling will sing the song live Marco Ronson, I’m just Kenrecreating a scene from the film that went viral.

Gosling confessed that he was disappointed to learn that he was in the running as a supporting actor, but that Greta had been overlooked as a director. “Without his talent, his genius and his courage, no one would be recognized today.“, he sympathized.

For her things are simpler, it still seems incredible to her that someone would give her money to make a film. That’s the only thing she sees in her future. Your friend and colleague Wes Anderson He assures us that he has no limits in that field. Everything he touches turns to gold.

And for those who see sexism in the fact that the directors’ branch of the Academy left her out of the running this year, the irony is that this is precisely the message that her film leaves, recreated in the monologue that the character delivers. America Ferrera about the difficulties of being a woman, when she says that no matter how much effort you make, it usually goes unnoticed. These are Greta’s words.