Winner, Academy Award for Best Song
To live in Barbieland is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken. Director Greta Gerwig brings depth to the perennial plastic playthings with a hero’s journey treatment that is at once exuberant, brilliantly hued and downright fun. With a script Gerwig co-wrote with her partner and collaborator Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story) and a pop song soundtrack from the king of catchy, music producer Mark Ronson, Barbie is an on-screen party that isn’t afraid to ask the bigger questions. The timeless ballad “What Was I Made For,” performed by Billie Eilish and written by Eilish and her brother, Finneas O’Connell, won Best Song at the 96th Academy Awards.
“Barbie is absolutely bonkers — and I was 100 percent on board with wherever it took me. I sat in the theater beaming with a grin not even a bright-pink bazooka could wipe off my face.” — Odie Henderson, The Boston Globe
directed by
Greta Gerwig
Greta Gerwig
written by
Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
with
Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Ariana Greenblatt, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Will Ferrell, John Cena, Helen Mirren
Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Ariana Greenblatt, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Will Ferrell, John Cena, Helen Mirren
country
United States
United States