The Oscars will receive a dose of Kenergie.
Ryan Gosling will sing the pop ballad I’m Just Ken during the March 10 ceremony, the show’s producers announced Wednesday. Others set to perform their selected original songs include Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Jon Batiste, Scott George and Becky G.
Ryan Gosling was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor that night. As he reprized his role as Ken alongside Jimmy Kimmel in a commercial promoting the ceremony, he shrugged his shoulders and suggested he wouldn’t win. He might not be wrong, even if it’s a joke: Fellow nominee Robert Downey Jr. has dominated awards season.
I’m Just Kenwritten by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, still has a chance, even if the other nomination of barbiethe melancholy song What Was I Made For by Billie Eilish and Finneas seems to be the favorite in her category, having already won a Grammy. But Ken’s ballad is also the one everyone wanted to see on the Oscar telecast, which will mark Ryan Gosling’s first performance at the Dolby Theater.
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Ryan Gosling will sing the pop ballad I’m Just Ken from the movie Barbie.
As Ken might shout, hidden behind a corner that he believes is somehow soundproof: “Sublime! »
Other nominated songs include The Fire Inside by Diane Warren from the film Flamin’Hot, It Never Went Away by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson from American Symphony And Wahzhazhe by Scott George Killers of the Flower Moon.
The 96e The Oscar ceremony will be broadcast live on ABC and in more than 200 territories around the world from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 10, with the show beginning at 7 p.m.