1. Greta did get a nomination, just not for director.
2. Margot didn't, but America did.
3. Ryan Gosling was the best part of Barbie, partly because of the writing which, again, WAS nominated.
4. This is not "the patriarchy;" it was a really strong year for those two categories.

Greta is the snub, Margot did a good job but nothing stellar. Ryan Gosling stole every scene he was in.

Edit: and the meme actually ignores that the plot is actually gender neutral. It applies to everyone, not just Barbie.

Men getting credit for women's accomplishments is the plot of barbie? I thought it was about how expectations and rules for gender identity and roles hurts everyone. That then expands on how women specifically feel a unique pressure to be an impossible ideal of everything all at once.

What actresses got nominated? You realize it might be possible there were better actresses from other movies?

And maybe Ryan was a lot better than most other actors.

Honestly, it doesn't make sense for any of them to get a nom. The film was good, it was enjoyable, but it wasn't an Oscar film. It wasn't Gerwig's best work and it wasn't Robbie's best performance. Despite Gosling being one of the best parts of the movie, the pickings for best supporting must have been slim for that to get him a nom for that role.

Honestly the Lead Actress Category was stacked this year. Emma Stone played a very similar role but was far more complex. Why are people also forgetting that America Ferrera was also nominated ? Best Director is also a smaller pool than Best Picture where it was nominated. It looks bad on optics but if people actually watched all the movies they would know that each of the actresses nominated deserved it . It’s not like they gave the nomination to a man lol

This is kind of stupid tbh. Margot and Greta are NOT competing against Ryan. They're competing against other females. This is because of this thing called "categories".

Ryan getting nominated has NOTHING to do with this. It's not like Ryan got nominated but they didn't because he took their place.

This is happening because of the absolute flood of female centric characters and movies that came out recently. There's too much competition. And much to the "feminists" dismay, Barbie is actually mid compared to the other movies and actresses.

Sigh.

Still "Esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie" for now.

As someone that never saw the movie. All the clips, gifs and memes people make about it are the Ken scenes. Nobody talks about barbie presumably because her character and performance were good, but just kinda safe, middle of the road stuff.

I’m surprised that Margot Robbie gag account on lemmy hasn’t rung in on this post. Or are they back to obsessing about android phones again? WAKE UP, BOT!

I mean I always knew that Oscars were mostly about hype and not actual artistic value but getting offended that the most hyped movie of the year didn't get all the nominations is just weird. Mattel run multi-million, non traditional marketing campaign and got a lot of people exited about the movie. It doesn't say anything about the acting or directing in it.

The Oscars have ALWAYS been bullshit. The best films of a given year rarely get nominated let alone win. Barbie made a boatload of money and Gerwig will be able to make at least a few risky projects based on its success. I wish we would all collectively ignore the Oscars because the academy contributes so little to the art of film

Why is he claiming that Gerwig got no nomination? Is he stupid?

Barbie was good. But my expectations going into it were greatly inflated by all the hype around it... Which sadly left me disappointed by it.

What about America Ferrera? She matters as much as Margot Robbie and got an Oscar nomination for her role in the film.

The acting was the worst part of the Barbie movie. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed watching it in the theater, but no one should be surprised that Margot Robbie didn't catch the nomination when she was up against actual films with real performances in it. The acting in Barbie is just memeable moments for the internet. Mind you, Barbie being nominated for Production Design and Original Song make perfect sense and it'll probably win those categories.

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Maybe he's a better actor.

Not surprised Robbie didn't get a Best Actress nomination, but I really felt Gerwig was a shoo-in for Best Director. Gerwig can still walk away with Best Picture and/or Best Adapted Screenplay though, so it doesn’t feel like a total snub.

gosling shouldn't have gotten it either

A woman goes out to discover herself and the world, in a movie so colorful, I constantly smiled in my seat. A man on her side that struggles with his masculinity. A parental figure that is only there for the lead to discover how far she came. A family to be part of in the end.

Poor things makes Barbies pink pale. In every aspect. Emma Stone stands without competition this year.

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Honestly Barbie just wasn't a good movie and it really shouldn't have gotten any nominations

It was over hyped and it was trash marketing for Matel.

And if you guys watched the movie it literally ended with Ryan gosling learning absolutely no lessons and just being like oh ok I can act like a dick and I'll still get what I want?

Killers of the flower moon was far far better than both Oppenheimer and Barbie. Honestly don't think Oppenheimer should have received so many nominations either.

I haven't seen it. Were those actresses really good in that film?

I was really dissapointed to see no Mojo Dojo Casa in shops this last Christmas. It would have been a killer.

With all of is controversy with the Barbie movie and nominations next year we might see an expansion of the pool of nominations

Smaller how TDK changed how the best picture nomination was awarded but we could do the same thing for actor and actress nominations. After 2008 a lot of people felt that the dark night was snub for best picture, so the academy changed the number of nominations that could be awarded for best picture. Originally only five movies could be nominated for best picture but after 2008 the minimum number of best picture nominees was 10. a few years later 10 was too much so they changed it to minimum 5 and maximum of 10 nominations. I think that's a good compromise because some years have very good performances while other years have mediocre, but you can definitely find five performances that outshined everyone else and having a maximum of 10 nominations limits the number of people that can be nominated.

I personally think we should remove the gendered nominations for acting actresses and instead separate them by age. Same way how the Grammys removed gender nominations, but instead for the academy. If you separate them by age, it makes more sense. Most older actors and actresses can't play roles that are for younger actors and actresses and vice versa for young artists. It is also more inclusive for trans and non-binary artists. It also evens the playing field a little bit because generally speaking older performers have more experience so it's harder for younger performers to be nominated.

Greta did get nominated though…

Maybe if it had a better plot in the first place, it would have attracted more awards. This movie will be forgotten in a decade or less.

Jesus fucking christ these comments.

Just cause you make a movie about women doesn't mean you should get an Oscar. There were better directors and acted movies out there (in the opinion of the voters). That's why it didn't make the cut.

I personally didn't even like the movie and definitely don't think it deserves an award for best directing or acting.

Oh no! Some rich people didn't get nominated for some awards.

Movie is made. Women is good but meh. Man is excellent.

"Hey that guy was excellent"

Omg that's so sexist! If you wasn't sexist you would automatically say that the women is better than the man.