Barbie
Carey Mulligan Says Actors Who Claim Awards Don’t Matter Are “100 Percent Lying”
Carey Mulligan says actors who claim to stay above the race for awards are “100 percent lying.” Mulligan is up for a best actress at this year’s Academy Awards, nominated for her performance as Felicia Montealegre in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro. The nomination, she told The London Times, “is just the coolest thing. Because it’s from […]
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Grammys: Olivia Rodrigo, Lana Del Rey, Jon Batiste Shut Out Despite Multiple Nominations
While six-time Grammy nominees Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus won multiple awards and, in the case of Swift, made history, at the 2024 Grammys, fellow six-time nominees and past Grammy winners Olivia Rodrigo and Jon Batiste each went home empty-handed despite their half-dozen nominations apiece. Batiste even won album of the year in […]
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‘Barbie’ Music Wins Big at the Grammys as Billie Eilish Praises Director Greta Gerwig
Barbie came into the 2024 Grammys with 11 nominations and went home with three of them. Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won song of the year for “What Was I Made For?” Their fellow contenders included Lana Del Rey’s “A&W,” Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero,” Jon Batiste’s “Butterfly,” Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” also from Barbie, Miley […]
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Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell Win Song of the Year Grammy, Thank ‘Barbie’ Director Greta Gerwig For Making “Best Movie of the Year”
Billie Eilish and her brother and principal collaborator Finneas O’Connell won the award for song of the year at the 2024 Grammys, for “What Was I Made For?” from the Barbie soundtrack. After Lionel Richie announced the winner, Eilish was visibly shocked. “Yikes… Damn, that’s stupid guys,” the singer said when taking the stage. Eilish […]
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Mark Ronson’s Eager to Make More Music With Ryan Gosling: “We Definitely Had a Lot of Fun”
Mark Ronson “would love to make more music” with Barbie star Ryan Gosling, the music producer told Billboard this week. “We definitely had a lot of fun,” Ronson said of his collaboration with Gosling. Ronson, alongside Andrew Wyatt, produced the now Oscar-nominated soundtrack for the film, which includes Gosling’s Oscar and Grammy-nominated song, “I’m Just […]
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Bill Maher Chimes in on ‘Barbie’ Oscars Controversy on ‘Real Time’: “Is This Really the Patriarchy?”
Bill Maher kicked off Real Time‘s second episode of the new year by taking the opportunity to share his thoughts on the Barbie Oscars nominations controversy. Following the audience’s applause as he took to the stage, the host said, “You can always sense the excitement at this time of year when you’re in L.A. because […]
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Barbie Biographer on What’s Really Behind the ‘Barbie’ Oscar Snubs (Guest Column)
A mere 17 days after its July 2023 release, Barbie earned a billion dollars — not to mention positive reviews and a broad fan base that kept coming back and bringing friends. Mattel’s advertising may have initially lured viewers to the theater, but the film itself made them return and proselytize. In a just world […]
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Is Josh Hawley a ‘Barbie’ Fan?
MAGA firebrand Josh Hawley is no stranger to political malfeasance — he’s the election-denying Missouri senator who famously raised a fist in support of the insurrectionists assembling on the morning of Jan. 6, then was caught on camera a few hours later desperately sprinting from those same rioters as they descended on the Capitol. But […]
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The Brutally Honest Barbie Dolls Mattel’s “Women in Film” Collection Should Have Included
After the triumph of Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar Barbie movie, Mattel recently revealed that its annual “Career of the Year” Barbie collection would showcase Women in Film. Four dolls were announced — studio executive, director, cinematographer and movie star — leading some on social media site X and various other cursed corners of the Internet to point out the […]
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“Everyone Lost Their Minds”: The Great ‘Barbie’ Backlash-Backlash
In Bo Burnham’s brilliant, pandemic-fueled Netflix special Inside, there’s a lyric that often comes to mind during media outrage news cycles. It’s from the song “That Funny Feeling” — a rundown of dystopic sentiments about modern life — and goes like this: “The backlash to the backlash to the thing that’s just begun.” In this […]
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If There’s Any Doubt That Hollywood Still Matters, Look at TikTok
Since the silent era, a century’s worth of movies has told us how to love, how to die, how to dress, how to behave. But things have changed a lot since the silent era, which raises the question: Are movies still vital to our lives? Are they still at the core of our cultural life? […]
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BarbieGate: Why All Oscars Snubs Are Not Created Equal
It’s been barely 48 hours, and already the Oscars snubs have gone through multiple news cycles featuring a variety of hot, cold and truly outré takes, with even a former U.S. presidential runner-up weighing in. At the center of it all are Barbie’s leading ladies Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, who were left out of […]
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