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Which Oscar-Nominated Films Pass the New Climate Reality Check Test?


"Barbie," "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning" and "Nyad" meet the Climate Reality Check's criteria.

And a character knows it.” The 2024 Oscar-nominated films that pass the test are “ Barbie,” “ Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One” and “ Nyad ” — three very different movies that touch on the topic of our rapidly shifting environment in various ways. In Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” the acerbic tween Sasha (Ariana Greenblatt) tells the titular doll (Margot Robbie) once she’s reached the real world, “…you’re killing the planet with your glorification of rampant consumerism.” In the latest installment of the “Mission Impossible” franchise, Kittridge (Henry Czerny) acknowledges the scarcity of natural resources, saying, “It’s going to be a war for the last of our dwindling energy, drinkable water, breathable air.” Finally, in the biographical sports drama “Nyad,” Bonnie Stoll (Jodie Foster) says, “The box jellyfish came up off the shallow reef when we left Cuba.

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