Judd Apatow disagrees with the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences’ determination to categorise Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” as an tailored screenplay quite than unique.

“It’s insulting to the writers to say they had been working off of present materials,” the “Knocked Up” and “This Is 40” director wrote on X/Twitter on Saturday. “There was no present materials or story. There was a transparent field.”

Selection solely reported on Wednesday that “Barbie” will compete for finest tailored screenplay on the Oscars, regardless of campaigning for unique screenplay. Every awards physique and voting group has its personal subset of guidelines for films by way of which screenplay class they’ll submit or in the end be nominated. Many movies about pre-existing characters — similar to earlier Oscar nominees “Toy Story 3,” “Borat 2,” “Earlier than Sundown” and “Earlier than Midnight” — had been in the end categorised as tailored screenplays.

The Writers Department govt committee of AMPAS most probably moved the hot-pink comedy to tailored screenplay as a result of Barbie and Ken had been pre-existing dolls from Mattel. In the meantime, the Writers Guild of America has designated “Barbie” an unique work, and it’ll stay in that class for the upcoming WGA Awards.

Gerwig, who turned the first girl to helm a billion-dollar film, has been nominated for 3 Oscars in her profession: “Girl Fowl” (2016) for unique screenplay and directing and “Little Girls” (2019) in tailored.

Eligible voting members of the department will solely be capable of solid votes for the “Barbie” script, which Gerwig co-wrote with husband and fellow Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach, in tailored screenplay. The official Oscar nomination voting will happen on Jan. 11.