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Why Hollywood Is Angry at the Oscars Over ‘Barbie’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, if.
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Speaker 2: And more likely when Barbie picks up an Oscar nomination
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Speaker 2: for Best Screenplay. The Academy just ruled that the script
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Speaker 2: will have to compete in the Best Adapted Screenplay category
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Speaker 2: rather than Best Original because the project was obviously based
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Speaker 2: on a pre existing toy, and it stirred a bit
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Speaker 2: of controversy across Hollywood. Many feel the idea that director
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Speaker 2: Greta Gerwig and her husband Noah Bombach didn't create the
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Speaker 2: entire premise and message from scratch is a huge stretch,
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Speaker 2: and jod Apatow was in that camp posting on X.
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Speaker 2: It's insulting to the writers to say they were working
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Speaker 2: off of existing material. There was no existing material or story.
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Speaker 2: There was a clear box. Because the idea of creating
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Speaker 2: award worthy stories based on physical products is relatively on
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Speaker 2: chart of the Academy's ruling could have long lasting implications.
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Speaker 1: Barbie's out on VOD that's direct from Hollywood