Judd Apatow Says Putting ‘Barbie’ In Oscars’ Adapted Screenplay Category Is Insulting
deadline.comBarbie is an original screenplay, not an adapted screenplay, claims director/producer Judd Apatow. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ decision to classify Greta Gerwig’s film is seen as a slam by Apatow, who posted last night on the matter. “It’s insulting to the writers to say they were working off of existing material,” wrote. “There was no existing material or story.
There was a clear box.” It’s not the first time for this conundrum. Many Oscar-nominated films about preexisting characters — “Toy Story 3,” for example — were classified as adapted screenplays.
The Writers Guild of America has Barbie as an original screenplay for its upcoming WGA Awards, showing that the matter is debatable.
Gerwig co-wrote the Barbie screenplay with husband and fellow Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach. The official Oscar nomination voting will take place on Jan.
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