Diablo Cody is sharing his perspective on those Barbie Oscar nominations.
Diablo Cody, who won a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award in 2008 for Juno, previously attempted to write a Barbie film that never came to fruition. The version directed and co-written by Greta Gerwig hit theaters last year, and this week earned eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.
“That’s what I’m going to say. I think Greta deserved the nomination and Margot deserved the nomination,” Cody, 45, told People. “But they made a billion dollars on that movie, okay? If I could flip a switch I’d change my Oscar for a billion-dollar movie right now! Sorry if that’s disrespectful to the Academy.” Also read – Zendaya says she’ll star in ‘Dune 3’
Sure, Margot and Greta have been overlooked…but who cares when you’ve just made 10 figures at the box office, Diablo Cody originally told the magazine
“I’m telling you, that was a tough project,” Diablo Cody says. “After working on [a Barbie project] I had even more respect for it because it was a very challenging thing to take that and turn it into something real.” Have property. And he did just that.
Among this year’s nominees, Gerwig was recognized in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for co-writing the No. 1 film at the 2023 box office, Barbie, with her husband Noah Baumbach, which grossed more than $1.4 billion worldwide. Had earned. to be done. Additionally, Robbie is a Best Picture nominee as a producer.