Oscars Snapshot: Mark Ronson Talks "I'm Just Ken" Nomination & Who He's Rooting For at the Oscars | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Mark Ronson chats with The Hollywood Reporter about his nomination for Best Song at the 96th Academy Awards for "I'm Just Ken" from 'Barbie.' He reveals where he keeps his current Oscar from his win for "Shallow," whether he prefers the Oscars or the Grammys more and who he's rooting for this award season.

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00:00Never play these emotions for laughs.

00:02You need to feel that these people are really going through these true emotional things at that moment.

00:07I loved writing that.

00:08I'm Just Ken is like nothing we've ever written ever before,

00:11and probably nothing we'll ever write again.

00:14Hi, I'm Mark Bronson, and I'm nominated for Best Song for I'm Just Ken from Barbie.

00:19I keep my one statue, I keep it, I'm very, it's obnoxious.

00:33I keep it on the living room mantle where everybody can see it.

00:36Like I'm sure there's some people who, you know, like more like, it's in the study.

00:41Mine's like, no, it's right there.

00:43I feel like maybe Lady Gaga kept the envelope.

00:51It was fun though because the other night at the Grammys when I read Record of the Year,

00:56I remember walking off stage and being like, wait, I'm still holding this.

00:59I should give it to Miley or, you know, Tom who wrote the song.

01:02So it was kind of like a sweet moment to like hand that to somebody to give an award to your friends.

01:07I haven't prepared anything yet.

01:13I think Andrew's more quiet.

01:15Like he's like the Phineas of the bunch.

01:18But I would love to hear Andrew say something.

01:23Which one's more fun? I mean, they're both amazing.

01:26I mean, the Grammys was so great this year as well,

01:29because of the performances are so amazing.

01:31But I think that, yeah, the Oscars has like a prestige on another level.

01:36I mean, there's this piece of score that we wrote called You Failed Me.

01:45And it's like when Ryan's on top of the Hummer and he's having his big meltdown.

01:49And then it goes all the way through to when Margot kind of like has her thing

01:53and she kicks her shoes off and falls over.

01:56And we're just like so moved by all these performances.

01:59And the whole thing that Greta always wanted us was to like never play these emotions for laughs.

02:04Like you need to feel that these people are really going through these like true emotional things at that moment.

02:08So I loved writing that.

02:10So I really am proud of that.

02:12I'm just kind of like nothing we've ever written ever before and probably nothing we'll ever write again.

02:18And it's a crazy song.

02:24I remember every time that I went into the editing suite when we were working on Barbie,

02:27there were always these giant bags of things to floss your teeth with.

02:31Greta's really fervent about, I guess, flossing and all this stuff.

02:36And I just thought that was just so cool.

02:38And I was like, I need to floss more.

02:40So that would be like a topic of small talk just to turn to John Williams and be like,

02:45what's your flossing kind of schedule?

02:47Ryan.

02:48Yeah, I think he's just so great in the film.

02:51I think, you know, I mean, everybody really, but Ryan's the one that like lifted up this song.

03:02He's the reason that we're sort of there, I feel like.

03:04I mean, other than obviously Greta knows screenplay, which created the entire world of it.

03:08But I really like, of course I'm partial, but I love all the Barbie America.

03:15You know, I found everybody did such good work.

Oscars Snapshot: Mark Ronson Talks "I'm Just Ken" Nomination & Who He's Rooting For at the Oscars | THR Video

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