The Oscar nominations came out just now and holy crap, you guys. Those misogynist a–holes didn’t nominate Greta Gerwig for Best Director for Barbie. Not only that, Margot Robbie was snubbed in Best Actress!!! The Academy voters really said: we despise Barbie and girls and feminism. It’s insane!! While Barbie got nominated in Best Picture, the Gerwig and Robbie snubs are HUGE. Here are all of the big categories (and you can see the full nomination list here):
Best Picture
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of InterestBest Director
Justin Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower MoonBest Actress
Annette Benning, Nyad
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Emma Stone, Poor ThingsBest Actor
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American FictionBest Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The HoldoversBest Supporting Actor
Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Mark Ruffalo, Poor ThingsAdapted Screenplay
American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of InterestOriginal Screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives
I won’t lie, I’m happy that Anatomy of a Fall made such a huge surge at the exact right moment. Sandra Huller absolutely deserves her nomination, and Justine Triet deserves everything too. I love that Bradley Cooper was snubbed for Best Director, because please, no one cares. Some love for Past Lives, but nothing for Greta Lee. Also: no nomination for Leo DiCaprio, thank God. Nothing for All of Us Strangers or Saltburn. May December got zero acting nominations, which is sad because Charles Melton really did give a great performance. I still can’t get over the Barbie snubs, holy sh-t.
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I think Ryan Gosling absolutely deserved his nomination for Barbie, but Margot Robbie made that movie. She’s the reason (well a big reason) why it made over a billion at the box office. And the other big reason – the director, Greta Gerwig. So disappointing.
I remember when Moulin Rouge (I think?) was nominated for Best Picture but not Best Director, and one of the presenters that night said something like “Moulin Rouge, a movie that apparently did not have a director.” (it happens more often now, that a movie is nominated for BP but not the director, but I think that’s a function of expanding the Best Picture category. It was much rarer a few decades ago.)
I think the supporting categories look interesting. I can see those going a few different ways.
Yeah that’s always weird to me. They did the same thing to Selma which was nominated for best picture, but not in the writing, acting, or directing categories. What made it the best picture then? I’m shocked but not shocked by the Barbie snubs. I feel like they’ve been telegraphing it since the BAFTA nominations, and I don’t think another actress in that role, or another director would have made such an impact.
ETA- I love the American Fiction recognition. I read Erasure when it came out two decades ago, and I am so happy Jeffrey Wright took that role.
Not exactly the same thing but the year Saving Private Ryan lost BP to f@$%ing Shakespeare In Love even though it won Best Director, Cinematography, Sound, Editing, and even Make-up was just the biggest disappointment and proved once and for all how Oscars can be bought, not earned. But I do agree that, despite BP being a broader category, it’s crazy how some directors (*cough* women *cough*) get overlooked but not the film itself.
@smcollins I forgot about that!! And I loved (still love) Shakespeare in Love, but I feel like its definitely Saving Private Ryan that has stood up as the better movie.
I would still choose Shakespeare in love over Saving Private Ryan while acknowledging the work that went into recreating the battle scenes with sound and editing.
My controversial opinion is that “Earn this” from the Tom Hanks character to Matt Damon’s character (Ryan) is awful, considering Ryan never asked to be taken off the battlefield and his brothers have all been sacrificed on the altar of his country already. In the cheesy ending, the now elderly Ryan asks his wife to tell him he’s a good man, which just shows how that messed him up.
@Dee that’s my least favorite part of the movie. It wasn’t something Ryan asked for, and for his mother/family, was it not earned by losing three other Ryan boys within weeks of each other?
It is certainly a disturbing movie but it is so well done. It’s not something I turn on for funsies though, lol.
Sooooo happy to see Erasure getting some love. Percival Everett is the most brilliant novelist (no one’s ever heard of) to emerge from SC. As in ever.
they would have to expand best director to up to ten slots as well to avoid that happening now.
I think RDJ has it locked up in best supporting actor, even though I think Ryan should win. although it would be right on par if a man was the only person who won for Barbie lol.
Billy Crystal described Barbra Streisand’s Prince of Tides as the film that directed itself
Kaiser that photo of Cillian you chose is a CRIME 😅
I zoomed in. Are his lips contoured??? Someone let me know I need answers lol
LOL poor Cillian. I feel like he’s not the most photogenic guy ever but he looks really incredible in motion.
He is a strange alien beauty
Him playing Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders did some things to me haha.
I saw him in person in Dublin years ago!! He has a unique and gorgeous face but I was absolutely shocked how tiny he is. I’m 5’5 and he was my height, and he was wearing flat shoes (as was I). He was so nice! And his doggo is a sweetie too 😂
This is picture was taken on hot day in Paris during Oppenheimer premiere. All the people who do not care for Cillian use this photo. In person he is beautiful!
I remember the original article here comparing him to Stains the Dog and now I can’t unsee it whenever I see a photo of Cillian Murphy.
no Greta (either one!) or Margot is crazy. I also honestly don’t think America was very good in Barbie… /ducks.
I guess I have to watch Nyad now? the only BP nominee I’ve seen so far is Barbie lol, I gotta catch up.
I didn’t think she was either….I mean she was good…..but I cannot believe she got an Oscar nom and Margot didn’t (I know different categories, so it wasn’t a direct competition, but still.)
I honestly think her nomination was simply because they know her speech is popular lol. she was fine! but ehhhh.
Margot was so subtle and is the emotional heart of the movie and was SO good. her and Ryan were fantastic.
America got to give “the speech” which the chucklehead voters probably saw as more “worthwhile” than the incredibly tricky and finely nuanced acting Margot Robbie pulled off.
Clowns.
Edit: @Arizona, jinx! I think we hit publish at the same time at first!
America wasn’t that great in Barbie. Everyone was going on at the mouth about her “speech”, but if you’d watched Scandal, Papa Pope gave Olivia a speech like that once and did it much better.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Nyad. Good performances from Annette Bening, Jodie Foster and Rhys Ifans
Me too, i thought it was a great film with excellent performances…..
Well they couldn’t hate “all” of the Barbie women because America Ferrera was nominated for Supporting Actress.
The Barbie snubs aren’t surprising but still are enraging.
I can’t with Cooper nominated for best actor.
And also Maestro for Best Picture. Seriously, it’s so meh. Best thing about the movie is Carey Mulligan, who absolutely deserved her nomination.
Really?! I thought the Maestro was a masterpiece and I don’t even like Bradley Cooper lol
It makes no sense to nominate Barbie for best picture but not nominate the director or lead actor. What exactly made it a best picture contender? Best adapted screenplay? At least, America Ferrera made the cut.
They were never in life going to nominate Margot Robbie. The only time a woman ever won for being funny that I can recall was Jamie Lee Curtis, and that was in part a sentimental win because she’s the daughter of Hollywood royalty.
How do they not nominate Greta!!! The set design was impeccable. The direction and writing had people laughing out loud and crying. It was layered in metaphors and jokes that seemed lighthearted on the surface but were very meaningful (like when Barbie said she felt unsafe rollerblading and Ken felt respected).
Ryan Gosling deserves his nomination for best supporting actor, but of course the man in the film gets the recognition.
Directing a comedy that is lighthearted and smart at the same time will get you zero love in Hollywood. You have to be pretty darn talented to make an intelligent comedy, and Greta did that in spades. Am I surprised that a bunch of old white men won’t reward a woman for being funny and smart? Nope.
Women can only be smart, funny or pretty, apparently.
Meghan’s homie Misan Harriman got nominated for his short film “The After”.
Maybe, we should also have two separate best directors categories, based on gender, just like best actor & actress.
It’s infuriating that it feels like the only way they’ll acknowledge women is if there’s an entire category that forces them to. You know they’d be maddeningly patronizing… like it’d be the Donna Reid Special Award for Excellence in Female Direction for Movies about Lady Stuff presented by Tampax.
Women have one the last 2 out of 3 I think. The academy may feel that’s enough for the next decade. /s
Happy that Colman Domingo was nominated for Rustin.
Interesting, but also boring and predictable. It would be nice if there were more surprises with these awards shows instead of just picking a chosen few to get all the awards every year. So many amazing performances that get completely ignored.
Also, the Greta/Margot snubs are shameful.
AMERICA FERRERA?! Are you kidding me?! She did not deserve a nod. That should’ve gone to someone else. What a joke. Same with Annette Bening. Both those slots deserved to be someone else.
eyeroll but not surprising that Gosling gets a nod but Margot/Greta shut out. Figures.
And yea, Greta deserved a best director nod and it’s pretty ridic she didn’t get one.
I liked Barbie, but I don’t think it was this earth-shattering moment for feminism or that the role itself required Margot to act her ass off. It was good, the message was good, but I don’t agree that it is a huge snub.
I think it’s a big snub because of the impact the movie had. it was a commercial and critical success. it revived major interest in the movies, and Oppenheimer would not have done as well were it not for the Barbie boost (it still would have been fine and nominated for a lot).
not nominating Greta for director is an enormous snub even though I agree that the movie itself is lacking.
I’m with you, and I’m glad to finally see someone else who feels that way. Good message, fun to watch, but WOW, a lot of people have been so insistent about it. Like, if you didn’t absolutely adore it, they’d jump straight to the conclusion that you were anti-woke, or that you didn’t care about supporting other women, etc.
Agreed. Couldn’t even get through it frankly. In my country it was popular among kids but most of the women I know only saw it when it got released on cable.
I mean, the flip side of the coin are people actually hating the movie without ever having seen it, based on some reactionary, anti-woke stance. IMO that response is a helluva lot crazier than those insisting that it’s a ground-breaking movie everyone should love.
@Kitten well of course that’s messed up too.
But for many people it isn’t either/or, there’s a middle ground and that middle ground is that Barbie is a fun movie with a good message and they enjoyed it but they just don’t love it. I mean I’ve seen comments on here from people about how if you didn’t think Barbie was the best movie of the year then you missed the message or whatever.
Yeah, I expected to love Barbie when I saw it and it was just…fine? The only thing I loved about it was how many toxic men hated it, but I haven’t been tempted to rewatch it now that it’s streaming, it was just an ok movie to me.
I can KIND OF see where the BP nom is a win for Margot. She was amazing as Barbie and no one else could have done it. This movie was her baby and SHE PRODUCED THE CRAP OUT OF IT. But without Greta helping to DIRECT her vision?! That to me is the more appalling snub.
Ok. I’m glad some on here said it 😀. Agree for me Barbie was OK. But it definitely has great impact for women filmmakers and was record breaking in the box office. Margot Robbie as a producer deserved to be nominated.
In other categories , disappointed
Charles Melton didn’t get a nom but I hope to see him get more acclaimed roles (like JE has been getting). Not surprised with the snub. My 2 cents on that -as it’s a British film and with some of the anti-Americanism comments lately(not from Saltburn but from the BM), imo it’s prob a subtle snub.
Correction above ⬆️ “not surprised with the snub on Saltburn”
I don’t get the love for The Holdovers. I saw it, loved it, will recommend it and watch it again.
But it was a perfectly pleasant boarding school dramady where poor little rich boy and sad sack teacher have a that ‘holiday that changes their lives” with some black ppl thrown in.
Great acting, fine writing, absolutely charming film. But this is just another film in this category. It brought absolutely nothing new to the table. (Except somewhat centering the black characters a bit than these movies usually do.)
Past Lives is a horrible omission. And to not recognize what Greta Gerwig pulled off with Barbie is unfuckingforgivable. (I didn’t even love Barbie but even I could see the achievement!)
I felt the same way about “The Holdovers.” It was fine and charming, as you said @Lurker25, but it wasn’t groundbreaking in any way.
I feel exactly the way you feel. The Holdovers was fine, Giamatti was fine as he always is. It was not one of my favorites of the year, by far but I enjoyed it. Past Lives was so much more impactful for me and I just can’t believe they didn’t nominate Greta Lee.
Another interesting thing is looking at which companies were most nominated, and it’s Netflix then Apple, then Searchlight (owned by Disney but a mini major) then Universal. So it’s streamers with the most nominations and everyone is bemoaning the loss of theatrical distribution. Why not nominate more studio films in more categories, like Barbie, which was a commercial and critical success. Netflix is only getting all the noms for Maestro, which I can’t even bring myself to watch. It’s not winning anything so it’s a waste when other more deserving movies could have taken some of those spots.
I want Da’Vine Joy Randolph to win for The Holdovers. I LOVED her character. She completely transformed herself, and I believed she was a grieving mother. I just loved her performance so much.
I thought the Holdovers was a perfectly fine movie and enjoyed it but Best Picture? That said, Da’Vine Joy Randolph made that movie. I am rooting for her in best supporting for sure. Her performance was incredible.
Same, regarding The Holdovers. It was wonderful and I’ve been telling everyone around me to watch it, but all the Oscar attention is surprising to me.
Considering the preferential voting system for best film, I think it’s possible for The Holdovers to win, it’s the kind of feel good experience that the academy loves. Personally, I think it’d be an immemorable victory.
I loved The Holdovers. It’s not easy to make a great film with the right mix of drama and comedy, or there’d be more of them, and I’m a sucker for this style of storytelling. It’s not Alexander Payne’s best film but he consistently makes terrific movies. Tough competition for best director but I would’ve liked to see him in there. I definitely see it as deserving of its nominations.
Hollywood has to pretend that Barbie was just another IP movie, so they can keep churning them out while ignoring the fact that it was the quality of the movie that made audiences live it.
Yes, the misogyny of it all is enraging. And that includes all the pick me girls who whined about it being “Feminism 101.” People really don’t recognize when they are just giving ammunition to the other side.
Burn it all down. Barbie saved the movie experience. Oppenheimer would have done well, but nowhere near a billion, without the Barbie audience. And now they want to pretend it didn’t happen.
I guess I’m a pick me girl cause yeah it was Feminism 101 – actually more like if a kid in a class called feminism 101 wrote a student essay while alao watching makeup how to videos on TikTok, scarfing fast food and drinking from a pink Stanley cup. Also feminists are anti-Barbie for a reason; most of the audience seemed not to even grasp the irony there.
Yikes out of all the pics to use for a header photo of Cillian Murphy LMAO you chose the scariest one. He either is gorgeous or terrifying looking, no in between.
Nominating Cooper for best director would have been too much. Gosling being nominated and not Robbie is rough and just stupid.
With Ryan and America Ferrera (lol she was completely mediocre) getting in, not nominating Margot as well IS a snub.
Macron’s must be so mad for justine triet’s nomination, it makes me glad. When she won the palme d’or in cannes, she made a very political speech against his social politics and he has a very childish reaction.
It is such a huge snub- and the point of the movie- that the man got nominated and the women who made it possible didn’t. To the point that snub isn’t even the right word, and I truly wonder if there will be a large boycott of the Oscars or if Ryan will give the nomination back? He deserved it, but I don’t know if I could have that while Margot and Greta were snubbed. I won’t judge him if he doesn’t do that, obviously.
@errgirl
Um, boycott? That’s a bit extreme. Nobody’s gonna boycott just because Greta didn’t get a directing nom. Did anybody boycott when the countless black women have been snubbed for Best Director, like Ava DuVernay? I liked Barbie, and do think Greta deserved a directing nom, but there seems to be an extreme reaction brewing to the omittance that…definitely that energy wasn’t there all the times PoC filmmakers got shut out.
Also lol at Gosling refusing or ‘giving it back’ – it doesn’t matter what he does. The nomination still stands and exists, they are not going to remove it and replace him with someone else just because he ‘doesn’t feel right having it’
There seems to be some entitlement with the Barbie movie and noms and it’s all coming from white women.
You have no idea what my reaction was to any previous POC snubs or even what my race is.
And there was an #OscarsSoWhite movement a few years ago, and that was what I was thinking of with the outrage we see from women about the snubs.
But Ferrera got the nom so it’s double surprising.
I know that Greta and Margot didn’t get nominations for directing and acting, respectively, but they weren’t completely snubbed. That adapted screenplay nod is for Greta and Noah Baumbach. The best picture nomination is for the producers and Margot’s production company got that nod.
I was really hoping that Barbie would get nominations for production design and they did! Along with costume design! And TWO of the songs from Barbie were nominated for best song. With also two acting nominations from the movie, I’m sure the Barbie cast and crew is still celebrating this.
I agree it’s a win for the film to have so many nominations, especially as I’m sure for YEARS as they developed it, it was brushed off as a goofy fluff movie. I’m glad it’s been recognized, but it really is terrible that of all the big, media covered nominations, the star/producer and director, the two women who worked to make it happen, did not get individual nominations.
Except for Best Picture, only people in a category get to choose the nominees for that category (all members vote for the actual award) The director category has long been a problem because to become a member, a director has to have been nominated. As a result, that’s the “Old, white guy” category where old, white guys just keep nominating old white guys. The writing, music, costume, makeup, shorts, editing, sound, and set design categories are slowly broadening but not the directors
Thank you for pointing that out: it’s the members of each discipline [acting/directing/cinematography/editing/etc] who do the nominating. The final vote is open to the entire voting members.
Another sausage-fest category is Best Composer / Film Score. Other than Rachel Portman’s win I cannot think of another woman who was nominated.
Lightpurple. This is categorically false about members of the academy. All members receive an invitation to join. While a nominee might automatically be considered, they do not automatically become members.
If what you said about directors was true, there would only be six women in the director’s branch.
The spread of misinformation does not benefit anyone. Do your research.
“Barbie” will be studied in film schools for generations. I’m apoplectic that Gerwig and Robbie were snubbed (it now has to be painfully obvious to everyone how much the fix is in with these crusty white boys), and yet my little soft heart hopes that the fact this movie will be a staple for generations to come would be better for its long-term legacy.
I don’t care about Greta snub, I’m so happy that Justine Triet is nominated in Best Director!!
Both of them should have been nominated. There shouldn’t be an either or in this.
America Ferrera???? What a a joke.
Hollywood hates powerful women. What Robbie and Gerwig accomplished blew the concept of centering men out of the water. Hollywood men aren’t going to let that go unpunished.
If that’s true then why did Justine Triet get a nomination?
Justine Triet isn’t “powerful” and she makes her movies outside of the major studios. She isn’t going to compete with the Spielbergs and the Nolans for big commercial project funding. Now that the studios make less original content the competition for that money is very real. Greta and Margot work within the system and their movie was a major success and helped propel a “back to theaters” boost in the summer. So they will be given more chances to make more expensive movies that might be in direct competition to the bigger, male directors.
Justine Triet, who I think directed the best film of the year, isn’t in that category so she isn’t a threat.
Unpopularest of all opinions…I didn’t really care for Barbie. If anything, I think it belongs most in Best Picture as a cultural moment. I’m fine with it being nowhere in the acting categories. I think it’s very in keeping with the message of the movie, of course, for Ken to get nominated but not Barbie, but more appropriate for Ryan not to get nominated at all. Not that he’s not good in it, just that it’s not an Oscar-caliber role. I’m fine with Greta not getting a nom. I think she’s overrated. Felt the same about Little Women. Shrug. I think Barbie should be like any other visually beautiful picture and clean up in the production categories. Maybe screenplay for Intro to Feminism. It was a beautifully produced, glossy thing that a lot of people loved. Like…Barbie.
Agreed. I enjoyed the heck out of it: it was a well made popcorn movie with first-rate performers but hardly more Oscar worthy than say, Mama Mia. Don’t get me started on how much of a mistake Gerwig’s Little Women was. But if Ryan Gosling and America Ferrara got the nod it is straight-up goofy that Margot Robbie didn’t get one as well.
I’m all for a fun movie being recognized but I don’t know that Barbie was as groundbreaking as the hype says. I think it’s like the Taylor Swift phenomenon, of course she IS phenomenal, but at some point mass hysteria took over. I love a band wagon and will hop on, I’m not cynical, but I don’t think enthusiasm and enjoyment always warrant accolades.
Any nomination for Maestro was just rewarding self indulgent Oscar bait. That movie was a mess and the pretentious mid Atlantic accents both Cooper and Mulligan used were irritating. But Cooper must have friends in the business to get him as much as he has.
He does have friends, but more importantly Steven Spielberg is a producer on it.
I didn’t enjoy Maestro much, it was a very average film, but I thought Carey Mulligan was fantastic. There is a scene where she is talking to a friend (I think?) about her relationship with her husband and her performance was so good. My parents and I hadn’t talked through the whole movie and then we all said at the same time some variation of “wow, what a great actor”. I haven’t seen all of the top films out this year so not sure about the competition.
This answers my question, thank you. I’ve only seen clips of the movie and wondered how Oscar worthy Mulligan’s role could possibly be. I like her and know she’s good, I just didn’t know about the role.
One of the problems with Oscars is the voters are sent the movies but the majority don’t watch but a few and are pretty old! It’s basically a popularity contest and dress up show is all it is. I know this from 2 friends deeply embedded in the industry
These nominations are predictable but I am glad to see Saltburn get snubbed. That movie was all over the place director-wise, and I was not looking forward to Barry Keoghan being elevated for that creepy performance. The only deserving professionals were the cinematographer and set design who both put some pretty images together in spite of the ick factor that Emerald Fennel went for.
@ Harper, same here. I did not understand the love for Saltburn this awards season. It was as you said….all over the place.
The Academy likes women in the mold of Emma Stone’s character in “Poor Things” — as creations of men, childlike and sexual.
Barbie, the doll, was created by a woman … as was the film. As conceived by Greta Gerwig and portrayed by Margot Robbie, Barbie isn’t a sexual being — she’s trying to find meaning and purpose in her life, not romance. And she ends up happy — of course, the Academy would hate that.
I’m disgusted by these snubs.
Barbie is not oscar caliber in my opinion. It is like that La la land movie to me, fun. I really dislike Greta and her husband due to their cheating. I am sorry I am that petty about that. I am glad about Bradley Cooper snub. For me it is Oppenheimer all the way Nolan, Cillian, Cillian… I am not surprised about Oppenheimer, it is the type of movie Academy likes.
The Academy thinks Poor Things feminism takes is stronger than the bubble gum Barbie feminism. Too bad for Margot, I love her and all the cast. Happy for America Ferrera. I still want my 2 hours back from Barbie.
*sigh*
Alright fine, I’ll fall on this sword. Can we just take a HUGE step back and notice the following:
Barbie is an incredible movement of a movie, but it’s not the type of movie that wins Oscars. It’s not misogyny, it’s the longstanding allergy that the Academy voters have for comedies and action heroes (not that the Academy hasn’t been misogynistic in the past). From a MOVIE point of view, it’s just okay.
The movie shines primarily because it has a very smart screenplay, for which Greta and Noah were nominated. Margot is lovely in the movie, but she’s also backed up by 2 actors who carry the heavier weight and elevate her performance: Ryan and America. The most popular and quotable part of the movie is not a Barbie scene. It’s America who drives the point across in a way that doesn’t feel sanctimonious but genuine. She was able to reign it in, be a human and not get carried away by the insanity. It’s hard to not become a caricature when you’re surrounded by them. Also, Ryan’s ability to walk the line between absolute stupidity and genuine feeling is worthy of a nom too.
You make it sound that Greta and Margot not having been nominated is at the same level of Amy Adams’s snub for “Arrival”. Let’s remember that, although it has a lovely and timely message, it is, in the end, a movie about a doll. A doll that changed playtime for girls, but still a doll. And a doll that has had decades of its own problems with self image, mmkay? After years of criticism, EVERYONE suddenly would step in front of a bullet for a Barbie! That gives me a headache.
The mere fact that it got so many noms is a testament to the movie’s brilliance. But it’s not going to be studied in film schools like it’s “Space Odyssey”. It absolutely should be dissected by screen writers as to how it’s possible to create a great story out of…plastic.
I agree. Barbie was fine – not Oscar-caliber. It was very successful at doing what it did! And I particularly enjoyed Gosling’s performance, he was hilarious and he really did elevate the writing.
Except your in-depth explanation doesn’t really shed any light on why Gosling got nominated but Margot and Greta did not.
I’m not buying what you’re selling at all TBH.
That’s okay 🙂
Her in depth explanation ABSOLUTELY explains why. She said – “Margot is lovely in the movie, but she’s also backed up by 2 actors who carry the heavier weight and elevate her performance: Ryan and America. The most popular and quotable part of the movie is not a Barbie scene.”
The song everyone was singing after the movie was Ken’s song. the part that everyone was quoting was America’s. etc. You may not agree with the reasoning, but its there.
Nah. For SC’s explanation to actually stick on any level you have to willfully disregard the Academy’s sordid history of sexism. And I get that people here are all up in their feelings about Barbie (haven’t seen the movie, no opinion on it) but
OMFG not a SINGLE woman was nominated for directing this year! FFS the majority of the best director nominated films are about men. You can sit here and defend the Academy all day and come up with elaborate reasons why Barbie didn’t
get nominated for best director or best picture but IT’S THE SEXISM, guys. You will never convince me otherwise.
@kitten A woman *was* nominated. Justine Triet. The E was left off in the post so it looks like Justin.
Thank you @SC
I feel like I’m on crazy pills here. Barbie was not great. The message was not new. The plot was tired.
Now Saltburn….Fennel was SNUBBED, IMO.
I am disappointed that none of the three leads from May December got nominated. Also the actress who played the lead in Priscilla? I have just seen In the zone of interest and Sandra Huller was chilling even though the film has had a mixed reception. She deserves her nomination for Anatomy of A Fall and I still undecided about her guilt.
I can’t believe Annette Bening was nominated for Nyad but they snubbed Margot Robbie for Barbie, she is the soul of the film. Btw, Anatomy of a Fall receiving so much love was incredible,
Beyond looking at the beautiful and not so beautiful gowns on the red carpet in photos I have never paid attention to awards season. I like the glamour and just don’t have energy for the politics of it all. I do know that out of all the films named only one got me back into the theater this past year and that was the Barbie movie. Looking forward to seeing the photos of the gowns, a sea of Barbie pink would be funny 🎀💞🌷
While Barbie was just okay, in my eyes (as a screenwriter) it’s not something that I would study. So, personally, I get the lack of nominations for Gerwig and Robbie. Also, kinda silly that America & Gosling got nominated – but I won’t lose any sleep over it.
I am, however, excited about all the love for American Fiction & Anatomy of a Fall 🙂 Fantastic films!
Very cool to hear from a screenwriter.
I was so bummed that Saltburn was not recognized, so much so that I’ve mentioned it three times in this thread. Thoughts on that one?
I’m going to be so angry if Carey Mulligan playing a white rich female New Yorker who willingly chose to be a doormat gets awarded over the perfection that is Lily Gladstone.
I’m also angry that Killers of the Flower Moon focused on the male characters and not Mollie!
It’s really a two person race between the “stones” Lily and Emma.
I enjoyed Barbie, and I think Margot Robbie was really good in it. The writing of Ken’s character gave him a bit more room to stand out, whereas while Robbie’s character was central, and her acting was fantastic – it was written in a way that made it feel less impactful. I don’t blame Robbie for this.
I also felt the movie was very basic in its feminism, which apparently is needed, given our culture.
The Greta I think was snubbed – and that it’s not mentioned as much is interesting – is Greta Lee. She was SO fantastic in Past Lives and the movie was fantastic. Director deserved a nod for that one, too.
Sorry but I don’t fine Barbie appealing at all let alone Oscar worthy. I just think it’s another example of how Hollywood is dead and can’t do better with producing better material. I respect others if they loved the movie.
Agree!
….now what about SALTBURN. It was a stunning movie, visually and psychologically. SNUBBED all around on that one.
Nominating Gosling but not the women primarily responsible for the success of the from pretty much tells us where women are in this country’s regard of women in. You can do all the work and bring in the big money, but you better know your place (behind the men).
Are they KIDDING that the best director category is ALL MALE AGAIN? GTFO! It’s like, not even pretending to be inclusive anymore. Screw it all.
It’s not. Justine Triet is a woman.
Hollywood always chooses the nice guy over the powerful woman. I think they feel intimidated.
About Annette Benning, I didn’t watch Nyad and she’s a good actor, but what I want to know, does the Academy genuinely care about those actors who work and suffer for their art. Looking at Bradley Cooper, Benning, Portman. I always roll my eyes at the beast of burden actors who studied years to conduct, or swim meters, or bleeding toes from pointe shoes, y’know? Jeez.
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I’m sad!!
There are always going to be gripes after the Oscar noms are announced. Whatever film you were rooting for, outside of Oppenheimer and Poor Things, it probably lost its Oscar nod(s) to the extremely heavy, end-of-the-year backload of excellent films. I feel like Poor Things definitely stole some of Barbie’s thunder. As for Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera, they are both well-liked in the industry and the academy knows them, so they voted for them. I think Bradley Cooper’s noms were based upon his popularity amongst members as well. Don’t get me wrong, I heard he transforms into Leonard Bernstein and it has really pretty shots. But I also hear Carrie Mulligan outshines him and the movie is largely forgettable, the plot meanders and after seeing it once you will not want to see it again. Ever. But, here it is taking a better film’s slot in Best Picture. Awards season, bs! LOL