Ryan Gosling, Billie Eilish, Jon Batiste set to perform at the Oscars
Gosling will sing the Oscar-nominated song I'm Just Ken from the film, Barbie.
The Oscars just got an infusion of Kenergy. Ryan Gosling will sing the pop power ballad I’m Just Ken at the show on Mar 10, the show's producers announced on Wednesday (Feb 28).
Others set to perform their nominated original songs include Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Jon Batiste, Scott George and the Osage Singers and Becky G.
Gosling is also nominated for best supporting actor that evening. While in character as Ken in a promo for the show with Jimmy Kimmel, he shrugged that he’s not going to win. In fairness, even if it was a joke, he might not be wrong: His fellow nominee Robert Downey Jr has been sweeping the season.
I’m Just Ken, written by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, still has a chance, however, even if the other Barbie song, Eilish and Finneas’s soulful What Was I Made For seems to be the clear awards favourite to date, having already won a Grammy. But the Ken ballad is also the one everyone has wanted to see on the Oscars telecast, which will mark Gosling’s first time performing at the show.
As Ken might shout, hiding behind a corner that he believes is somehow soundproof: “Sublime!”
The other nominated songs include Diane Warren's The Fire Inside, from Flamin' Hot, Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson's It Never Went Away from American Symphony, and Scott George's Wahzhazhe from Killers Of The Flower Moon.
The 96th Oscars is taking place on Mar 10 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.