Barbie’s Kate McKinnon, America Ferrera, and Ryan Gosling reprised their roles opposite longtime Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel in a new promo for the 96th Academy Awards on March 10th.
The clip begins with narration courtesy of Helen Mirren, who also provided voice-over work for Barbie last year. “Since the dawn of time, men have been getting lost,” Mirren narrates as Jimmy Kimmel searches for a path back to “OscarsLand.” Kimmel then links up with Kate McKinnon’s ‘Weird Barbie” as she shows him how to make the jump from BarbieLand back to the real world: “A straight shot through the Zone of Interest, past Past Lives, over Anatomy of a Fall falls, and all the way to Carnegie Hall. Then it’s up the hill to Burton Academy, take a Jeffery Wright and go all the way to Los Alamos, New Mexico.”
McKinnon and Kimmel then recreate the film’s traveling montage sequence with some star-studded film references (Weird Barbie shouts out Emma Stone’s character in Poor Things as “Even Weirder Barbie” and claims that she is her cousin). Several Oscars-related jokes follow — including a comedic jab at Kimmel’s nemesis, Matt Damon — until Kimmel and McKinnon finally land at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.
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America Ferrera then pops out to reprise her oft-quoted Barbie monologue, but instead of being about the contradictions of womanhood in society, it’s about how hard it is to host the Oscars. Finally, Ryan Gosling joins the trio for some typical Ken-coded buffoonery, concluding the segment by screaming with Kimmel because Greta Gerwig didn’t get a Best Director nomination. Watch the clip below.
Barbie is up for eight Academy Awards this year, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for Gosling, and Best Supporting Actress for Ferrera. Meanwhile, Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Poor Things lead the nominations for the ceremony’s 96th edition. Revisit our 2023 Annual Report piece on why Margot Robbie’s performance as Barbie was one of the greatest of the year, and see where Barbie landed on our top 25 films of 2023 list.
Ed. Note: Learn where to stream all the movies nominated for 2024 Oscars, including Barbie, here.
