As
Barbie
, the record-breaking film she wrote and directed,
Greta Gerwig
(40) has become a cultural phenomenon.
When the Oscar nominations were announced in January, although
Barbie
collected eight, including Best Picture, many were left complaining about Gerwig's omission in Best Director.
She had been nominated in that category in her directorial debut,
Lady Bird
, she was the fifth woman to achieve that achievement in 2018.
After raising $1.4 billion around the world and with unanimous praise from critics and the public for the iconic reinvention of the Mattel doll, this year its nomination seemed a given.
“
Barbie can be an astronaut but not win an Oscar as a director
,” they claimed on the web.
Former first lady
Hillary Clinton
participated in the media discussion that arose, comparing herself to Gerwig and
Margot Robbie
, the actress who lent her body and heart to her “stereotypical Barbie” and
was also not nominated for Best Actress.
“While it is very ugly to win at the box office, but not take the gold, your millions of fans love you,” Hillary Clinton encouraged them, remembering that she won the popular vote over
Donald Trump
in the 2016 election, but she had to see how He became president for having added more votes in the electoral college.
"The Chronicles of Narnia" is coming
Ryan Gosling, Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig, on the set of "Barbie". He is nominated for Supporting Actor at the Oscars, but they did not enter their respective categories.
Photo: Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP
As a consolation prize, Greta Gerwig has the possibility of winning her first Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for
Barbie
, which she would share with her husband, screenwriter
Noah Baumbach
.
For now, another record that Gerwig has broken is having
the three films she directed be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture
:
Lady Bird
,
Little Women
and
Barbie
.
A Californian who now resides in Manhattan with her husband and two young children, Greta wanted to study musical theater, but ended up in college with a degree in literature.
Although she worked as an actress in her early days, it is clear that she found her passion in writing and directing.
In the same week that the Oscars are awarded on Hollywood Boulevard,
Time
magazine put her on the cover
as the face of “the extraordinary leaders who are building a more equal future.”
What stands out is her feminist vision and the passion with which she is now preparing to reimagine another very popular fantastic world, that of
The Chronicles of Narnia
, by the British writer CS Lewis.
She is preparing two films for Netflix.
She recognizes that she grew up loving movies (she saw
Titanic
8 times) and that her approach to Narnia comes from intuition.
How to be a successful woman
Greta Gerwig holds the record for having her first three films nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.
Photo: Lee Jin-man/AP
Greta does not hold any grudges for the non-nomination that everyone is talking about (except her) and assures that she will enjoy this Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby theater, all the achievements that
one of the most subversive films of last year
achieved .
She does not say if she will use the color pink as she has done at other awards shows, but surely on Sunday host
Jimmy Kimmel
will make her the center of his jokes recreating this controversy.
She is entertained to learn that
Ryan Gosling is going to sing
Mark Ronson
's song
,
I'm Just Ken
, live, recreating a scene from the movie that has gone viral.
Gosling confessed to being disappointed to learn that he was in the running as a Supporting Actor, but that Greta had been passed over as a director.
“
Without his talent, his genius and her courage, no one would be recognized now,
” he sympathized.
For her things are simpler, it still seems incredible to her that someone would give her money to make a film.
That's the only thing she sees in her future.
Her friend and colleague
Wes Anderson
assures that in this field she has no limits.
Everything she touches turns to gold.
And for those who see sexism in the fact that the Directors branch of the Academy has left her out of the race this year, the irony is that this is precisely the message that her film leaves, recreated in the monologue that the character of America recites
. Ferrera
on the difficulties of being a woman, when she says that no matter how much effort you make, it usually goes unnoticed.
Words from Greta.