Greta Gerwig opens up about her much-discussed Oscar snub for directing Barbie in a new interview.
The 40-year-old filmmaker was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay with her husband Noah Baumbach.
However, many fans were upset that it was not nominated for Best Director and that Margot Robbie was not nominated for Best Actress, although she did earn a Best Picture nomination as one of the film’s producers.
The filmmaker finally spoke for the first time about the snub in a new interview with Timewhere he shared a story.
“A friend’s mom told me, ‘I can’t believe you weren’t nominated,'” Gerwig said, laughing.
Greta Gerwig Opens Up About Her Much-Discussed Oscar Snub for Directing Barbie in New Interview
The 40-year-old filmmaker was nominated for the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay with her husband Noah Baumbach
“I said, ‘But I did it.’ I got an Oscar nomination.’ She said, ‘Oh, that’s wonderful for you!’ I thought, ‘I know!'” Gerwig added.
He continued: ‘Of course I wanted it for Margot. But I’m happy we can all be there together.”
Barbie is nominated for eight Oscars: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling), Best Supporting Actress (America Ferrera), Best Adapted Screenplay (Gerwig and Baumbach), Best Production Design (Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer), Best Costume Design (Jacqueline Duran) and two for Best Original Song (I’m Just Ken and What Was I Made For?).
Although Gerwig began her career as an actress, she eventually turned to writing and directing.
He co-wrote and starred in such films as Hannah Takes the Stairs (which he co-directed with co-writer Joe Swanberg), Nights and Weekends, Northern Comfort, Francis Ha, and Mistress America.
2017’s Lady Bird was her first as a solo writer-director, earning her first Oscar nominations for both writing and directing, and earning $79 million on a $10 million budget.
He followed up with the 2020 adaptation of Little Women, which also earned him a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination and earned $231 million on a $40 million budget.
Barbie was the biggest movie of the year, grossing $636.2 million domestically and $1.445 billion worldwide on a budget of $145 million.
“I said, ‘But I did it.’ I got an Oscar nomination.’ She was like, ‘Oh, that’s wonderful for you!’ I was like, ‘I know!'” Gerwig added.
He continued: ‘Of course I wanted it for Margot. But I’m happy we can all be there together.
Barbie is nominated for eight Oscars: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling), Best Supporting Actress (America Ferrera), Best Adapted Screenplay (Gerwig and Baumbach, above), Best Production Design (Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer ), Best Costume Design (Jacqueline Duran) and two for Best Original Song (I’m Just Ken and What Was I Made For?).
While Gerwig began her career as an actress, she eventually turned to writing and directing.
Next up for Gerwig are at least two movies based on CS Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia books for Netflix.
The filmmaker said she was drawn to the “euphoric, dreamlike” quality of Lewis’s writing.
“It’s connected to folklore and fairy tales from England, but it’s a combination of different traditions,” he said.
“As a child, you accept everything: that you’re in this land of Narnia, there are fauns and then Santa Claus shows up,” he said.
‘It doesn’t even occur to you that it’s not schematic. “I’m interested in embracing the paradox of the worlds that Lewis created, because that’s what makes them so compelling,” she added.