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Ryan Gosling fans may have a reason to rejoice. The Academy Award-nominated actor may perform Barbie song I'm Just Ken live at the upcoming Oscars ceremony. Variety reports that days after suggesting that The Academy may consider his performance on the stage a “risk,” he's been locked to croon his popular track live. (Also Read: Ryan Gosling winks at Emma Stone as she accepts her Best Actress BAFTA; fans love the La La Land moment. See pics) Ryan Gosling's song I'm Just Ken from Barbie is nominated for Best…

It’s no secret that Ryan Gosling is one of his generation’s best actors. With heart-wrenching performances in movies like Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, and La La Land (for which he got his second Academy Award nomination), he’s proved his versatility time and time again. Also, he sings in every one of those and shows off impressive vocal skills. In Barbie, he sings the impossibly catchy tune “I’m Just Ken,” which he will perform at the upcoming Oscars. So, is he a trained singer? The answer isn’t that…

It was the movie of 2023, spawning countless memes, an ocean’s worth of pink moviegoers and contributing to one half of the mammoth Barbenhiemer craze. Bursting into cinemas with an explosion of fuschia, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has remained a part of the pop cultural conversation some seven months after it first premiered in July 2023.  The movie, which is nominated for eight Oscars — including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay — at the imminent Academy Awards, brought an unprecedented level of attention to its…

The Barbie track, written and produced by Mark Ronson, is nominated for Best Original Song Ryan Gosling will bring his Kenergy to the 2024 Oscars ceremony. After months of speculation over whether the actor would take the stage to perform the Oscar-nominated song “I’m Just Ken” at the awards ceremony, Variety reports that Gosling is officially set to perform. The Academy has yet to comment. The Barbie track, written and produced by Mark Ronson, is nominated for Best Original Song. Gosling…

The Bafta-winning producer behind Ken Loach’s acclaimed films has warned that the UK indie film sector will “die” without additional fiscal support.Appearing in front of a session of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s inquiry into British film and high-end TV, Rebecca O’Brien – who runs the production company Sixteen Films with Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty – raised urgent concerns about the state of the industry.“There’s market failure because the streamers came in, high-end TV got higher end, and Hollywood…

For many Barbie fans, Ryan Gosling’s musical solo of “I’m Just Ken” was the highlight of the film. In a new episode of Rolling Stone’s The Breakdown, producer Mark Ronson discusses the process of making the now-Oscar-nominated Ken solo from Barbie, including the specific instructions he received from director Greta Gerwig. “I need the most maximalist thing you’ve ever written,” Ronson says Gerwig asked him. “That’s when we wrote the music for the Kenergy part, but we hadn’t written any words.” Ronson…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAn Oscar for Best Original Song sits high on many a musician’s list of “dream career moments”. This was very evident at the Academy Awards in 2019, when an emotional Lady Gaga – already the recipient of three Brit Awards, six Grammys and a Golden Globe – won for her song “Shallow”, the lead single from the soundtrack to A Star is Born. “All I have to say is that this is hard work,” she…

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I think that we’re all in agreement that the song “I’m Just Ken” must be performed at this year’s Academy Awards. As one of the 2024 Oscar nominees for Best Original Song, you’d expect that Ryan Gosling would for sure get up on that stage and sing his power ballad from Barbie. However, it’s still up in the air if he’ll do it. Now, both the Ken actor and Barbie herself, Margot Robbie, have weighed in on the topic, and it’s making me feel optimistic. The last time Gosling was asked about performing “I’m Just Ken” at the…

Image: Warner Bros.The Oscars are quickly approaching and the anticipation to see if Ryan Gosling will perform “I’m Just Ken” from the Barbie movie continues to build. Recently Gosling politely declined an invite from Clive Davis to perform it at a Grammys gala, so the film’s music producer Mark Ronson tapped Lainey Wilson to sing the iconic number for the event instead. When it comes to the Academy Awards, however, the hopes are bigger since Gosling is nominated for his role as Ken and the music is also up for a golden…