“Barbie” may have won the box office battle, but “Oppenheimer” won the awards. The Golden Globes Awards cemented Christopher Nolan's historical drama as the Oscar frontrunner and made other contenders re-group and re-think their campaign strategies.
Who won more Golden Globes, Barbie or Oppenheimer?
Christopher Nolan's blockbuster biopic “Oppenheimer” dominated the 81st Golden Globes, winning five awards including best drama, while Yorgos Lanthimos' Frankenstein riff “Poor Things” pulled off an upset victory over “Barbie” to triumph in the best comedy or musical category.
Another clue came at the Golden Globes. Barbie failed to win best comedy or musical but walked away with the cheesy, newly-invented award for cinematic box office achievement, a consolation prize for being popular and making money. The film's relationship to money and corporate culture was problematic from the start.
Did Oppenheimer win anything at the Golden Globes?
“Oppenheimer,” which entered the ceremony with eight nominations, emerged as the movie to beat in the coming Oscar race, winning five Globes, including for best drama, Christopher Nolan's directing and Cillian Murphy's acting.
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How many Golden Globes did Barbie win?
'Barbie' has won the first-ever Golden Globe for cinematic and box-office success. The Warner Bros. film was already the highest-grossing domestic and global release of 2023. Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell also received a Golden Globe for the song 'What Was I Made For' from 'Barbie'.
It won best song for Billie Eilish and Finneas's “What Was I Made For” and also took home the new cinematic and box office achievement award, essentially a prize for grossing $1.4 billion, the most for any single film in 2023.
A film that polarizes audiences can have trouble building consensus on the film's merit. If the movie does not have uniform appeal, the director may struggle to accumulate the widespread support necessary to secure an Oscar nomination. Barbie was released after 2018, so was not included in the ratings study.
Barbie then started losing several key industry-guild awards, including for production design, one of its best chances at an Oscar victory. (At the Academy Awards, that category went to Poor Things.) Yet it's worth remembering what a challenge it initially seemed for a Barbie movie to even get this far.
Some argue that her emphasis on fashion, beauty, and materialism strengthens stereotypes and limits girls' aspirations. They claim that Barbie fails to empower young girls to pursue careers in male-dominated fields or engage in activities traditionally seen as "boyish."
According to Rotten Tomatoes, Greta Gerwig's Barbie starring Margot Robbie as the doll icon has a very fashionable 89 percent positive score, while Christopher Nolan's historical drama Oppenheimer starring Cillian Murphy is just slightly more explosive at 92 percent.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the Barbie and Oppenheimer double-feature phenomenon has inspired an upcoming comedy about a doll scientist who builds an atomic bomb to take out humanity. “D-Cup, A-Bomb,” a poster tagline teases. The movie is called Barbenheimer, and yes, it's real.
Taylor Swift Loses Golden Globe To Barbie Movie; Oppenheimer, Succession Lead Way In Award Wins. The "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" were two of the highest-grossing films of 2023 and set several box office records for the year.
At last night's Golden Globes, Taylor Swift was spotted leaving the room after she lost in her category, Cinematic and Box Office Achievement. But she didn't actually leave the Globes, a source at the ceremony told TMZ. She just needed to use the restroom.
"Oppenheimer" won seven Oscars Sunday night, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. It also won for Best Film Editing and Best Cinematography. Ludwig Göransson also took home the Oscar for Best Original Score.
Schumer, however, later shed more light on what led to her Barbie exit, telling The Hollywood Reporter in March 2022 that creative differences caused her to back out. "They definitely didn't want to do it the way I wanted to do it, the only way I was interested in doing it," she said at the time.
Vietnam: Before the film premiered, officials in Vietnam announced they were banning Barbie over a scene that included a map that appeared to show China's contested territorial claims in the South China Sea—Warner Bros. disputed the claim, describing the drawing as “child-like.”
With Oppenheimer taking home 7 Awards including Best Picture, Directing, Actor in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role, Cinematography, Film Editing and Original Score, and The Holdovers' Da'Vine Joy Randolph winning Actress in a Supporting Role, Universal's studios were the biggest winner during last night's ...
As reflected in Greta Gerwig's blockbuster movie that tackles the legacy Mattel's famous doll, Barbie has always been more popular than Ken. For every Ken doll sold today, there's generally eight to 10 Barbies sold, according to Jim Silver, a toy industry expert and CEO of review site of TTPM.
Ryan Gosling received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor for his performance as Ken, but Margot Robbie did not receive a lead actress nomination for her role in Barbie. Greta Gerwig was overlooked for best director. Read more on the nominations here.
Barbie was beaten in the best movie (musical or comedy) and best actress (musical or comedy) categories by Yorgos Lanthimos's brilliant absurdist nightmare Poor Things and its extraordinary lead performance from Emma Stone as Bella Baxter, a Victorian fallen woman brought back from the dead in a bizarre Frankensteinian ...
Margot Robbie and Gerta Gerwig took home a trophy for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement for Barbie at the 2024 Golden Globes, making them the first-ever winner in the category (it was introduced this year.)
Barbie was childfree. She was invented to be that way. Her creator, Ruth Handler, way back in 1959, was disheartened to find that the only dolls her own daughter could play with were baby dolls.
