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Judd Apatow disagrees with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ choice to categorise Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” as an tailored screenplay quite than authentic.
“It’s insulting to the writers to say they were working off of existing material,” the “Knocked Up” and “This Is 40” director wrote on X/Twitter on Saturday. “There was no existing material or story. There was a clear box.”
Variety solely reported on Wednesday that “Barbie” will compete for a greatest tailored screenplay nomination within the Oscar race, regardless of campaigning for authentic screenplay. Each awards physique and voting group has its personal subset of guidelines for films when it comes to which screenplay class they will submit or finally be nominated. Many movies about pre-existing characters — resembling earlier Oscar nominees “Toy Story 3,” “Borat 2,” “Before Sunset” and “Before Midnight” — have been finally categorised as tailored screenplays.
The Writers Branch government committee of AMPAS almost definitely moved the hot-pink comedy to tailored screenplay as a result of Barbie and Ken have been pre-existing dolls from Mattel. Meanwhile, the Writers Guild of America has designated “Barbie” an authentic work, and it’ll stay in that class for the upcoming WGA Awards.
Gerwig, who grew to become the first lady to helm a billion-dollar film, has been nominated for 3 Oscars in her profession: “Lady Bird” (2016) for authentic screenplay and directing and “Little Women” (2019) in tailored.
Eligible voting members of the department will solely be capable to forged votes for the “Barbie” script, which Gerwig co-wrote with husband and fellow Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach, in tailored screenplay. The official Oscar nomination voting will happen on Jan. 11.
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