Yesterday the Academy announce thenominees for the 2024 Oscars , andBarbie did very well for itself . good Adapted Screenplay ! Two original call nods ! Ryan Gosling for Best Supporting Actor and America Ferrera for Best sustain Actress ! ABest Picture nominating speech ! But alas , this has proven to not in fact be enough in an unbalanced path .
Almost immediately since the detritus settle on the nominations reveal , observer have await to the fact that both starMargot Robbie and director Greta Gerwigdid not make their way into the Best Actress and Best Director family . Many parallels were made between the movie ’s commentary on patriarchy and the fact its virile star check acknowledgment , of class , as well as the fact that Ferrera earned a Best Supporting Actress nod for her role in the movie — centered around her bad climactic manner of speaking in the film about the duality of charwoman ’s topographic point in companionship . All perfectly fine , so far . But suddenly , it seems , that has in the place of a daytime spin around out into a comment that the Academy has , somehow , destroyed celluloid and feminism in equal cadence with its nominating address selection .
“ Greta has done just about everything that a manager could do to deserve it , ” Ferrera toldVariety . “ produce this world , and taking something that did n’t have built-in value to most masses and draw it a global phenomenon . It feels unsatisfying to not see her on that list . ”
Image: Warner Bros.
These are all dead amicable things to say in statements about their own several nomination , but the increase estimate that people attached to Barbie have to come out and come up to the aim snubbing is weird in context . Barbie take eight nominations at this year ’s Oscars , and several of those nominating address are in fact for both Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie .
Gerwig is credited alongside fellow screenwriter and partner Noah Baumbach for the Best Adapted Screenplay nomination , and Robbie is include in the Best Picture nomination , as that family is technically award to a moving picture ’s producers . So it ’s not like they have been overlooked entirely , just in these two specific categories most onlookers expected to see potential recognition in . And while some people have been quick to look to the Academy ’s history of diverse nominees to take it to task , sexism does n’t completely fix the rationality for the snub either , believe that Anatomy of a Fall ’s Justine Triet is among the nominees for Best Director this year . Barbie is a smash hit clowning , the form of photographic film that does not incisively make for typical Oscar fare , and its mainstream success overcame a plenty to see it take in the nominations it already got ( it ’s worth note , as theNew York Timesdid so , that Best Director as a family is specifically voted for by the director ’s offshoot of the Academy , rather than the general rank , which is not only a smaller pool of voters , but only made up of approximately 25 % female members ) .
All that then , realize it dead bizarre that the late person to wade into the comment is neither Gerwig nor Robbie themselves , but former Secretary of State and Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton .
Greta & Margot ,
While it can sting to win the box situation but not take home the amber , your jillion of fans have it off you .
You ’re both so much more than Kenough.#HillaryBarbie
— Hillary Clinton ( @HillaryClinton)January 24 , 2024
“ While it can twinge to deliver the goods the corner office but not take home the gold , your millions of fan love you . You ’re both so much more than Kenough , ” Clinton posted on X , the program formerly recognize as Twitter , in part this break of the day , along with the hashtag “ HillaryBarbie . ” Not to pull the “ Kim there ’s people that are dying ” card too severely or anything , but sure as shooting there is enough going on in the American and international political area powerful now that Clinton has better thing to put up commentary about , if at all ? Does a movie with a slew of Oscar nominating speech not get two specific nominations really warrant this floor of weighing in ? It ’s givingPokémon Go to the Polls , but even more absurd given everything we just laid out about Barbie ’s very good run of nomination .
Barbie is already an overpowering success , publically and for themost part critically acclaimed , and madeover a billion dollarslast yr . It ’s not like it has go unloved or underrated . Its nominating speech at the Oscars this yr are still a part of history — Gerwig , in malice of missing out on a Best Director nod , is now the first film producer ever in the history of the Oscars to have had their first three solo - address movies be nominated for Best Picture . Perhaps this simply should be kenough .
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