The race for the best original song race is heating up, and another front-runner emerged at the Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday night. Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt collected the Critics’ Choice Awards for the viral hit “I’m Just Ken”, performed by Ryan Gosling in Barbie.
“I’m Just Ken” faced tough competition in the fellow Barbie songs “Dance the Night” by Dua Lipa and “What Was I Made For” by Billie Eilish, plus “Peaches” from The Super Mario Bros. Movie, “Road to Freedom” from Rustin, “This Wish” from Wish. It eventually defeated them all, and its songwriters Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt were crowned as winners.
Ronson first thanked Gosling for making the audience fall in love with this song and said this award is as much his as theirs, before turning his attention to the director Greta Gerwig.
“The fact that you carved out 11 minutes for this prog-rock, power-ballad, dream-ballet, shred fest so the boys could cry and hold hands a little too, we’re really forever in your debt for that,” said Ronson in his acceptance speech.
“I’m Just Ken” has also been nominated for best song written for visual media at the Grammy Awards, in addition to being shortlisted for best original song at the Academy Awards.
