Ryan Gosling isn’t just Ken any longer.
The accredited Oscar candidate was up for Finest Sustaining Star for his kip down Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” and likewise belted up his “I’m Just Ken” ballad onstage throughout the 2024 Academy Honors.
Gosling, that moonlights as the Dead Male’s Bones frontman, shook bent on the Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt-penned tune which turned into one of the lots of breakout anthems of the history-making smash hit motion picture. Guitar Player Lower from Weapons N Roses gone along with Gosling for the real-time performance of the cherished “Barbie” track, in addition to fellow Ken “Barbie” stars Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, and a lot more, for a “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”- motivated music minute.
Other “Barbie” tune “What Was I Made For?,” composed by Billie Eilish and her bro Finneas, was likewise carried out throughout the event.
Various other Finest Tune candidates consist of Diane Warren’s “The Fire Inside,” co-performed by Becky G, from “Flamin’ Hot,” Jon Batiste’s “It Never Went Away” from his docudrama “American Symphony,” and Scott George’s “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
Gosling vocal singing “I’m Just Ken,” however, had a specific quantity of expectancy swirling in advance of the 2024 Oscars, which occurred Sunday, March 10. Watch Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” performance listed below.
An intro for the yearly honors event saw host Jimmy Kimmel attempt to browse a getaway from Barbieland to get to the Dolby Theater Also Known As Oscarsland. Oscar- chosen “Barbie” stars Gosling and America Ferrera, signed up with by fellow set cast participants Kate McKinnon and Helen Mirren, assistance Kimmel locate his method to the event.
Gosling taken advantage of his Mickey Computer mouse Club favor the vocal singing and dance called for to handle his “hardest” duty to day as Ken. “This is the hardest part I’ll ever play. How do you approach playing a 70-year-old crotchless doll?” Gosling rhetorically asked in a W publication meeting. “There’s no research you can do for that. There’s no one you can shadow, no documentaries you can watch, no books written about Ken. You’re on your own.”
Along with Gosling’s Finest Sustaining Star Oscar nod and his Finest Tune performance, “Barbie” remained in the competing Finest Adjusted Movie script for supervisor Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Finest Sustaining Starlet for Ferrera, Finest Outfit Style, Finest Manufacturing Style, and Finest Photo.
Gosling formerly spoke up on the viewed snubs for Gerwig in the most effective Supervisor classification and Margot Robbie in the most effective Starlet classification.
“I am extremely honored to be nominated by my colleagues alongside such remarkable artists in a year of so many great films. And I never thought I’d be saying this, but I’m also incredibly honored and proud that it’s for portraying a plastic doll named Ken,” Gosling claimed. “But there is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally celebrated film. No recognition would be possible for anyone on the film without their talent, grit and genius. To say that I’m disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement.”
