Margot Robbie Is "Not Sad" About Best Actress Oscar Snub (image@barbiethemovie)
Margot Robbie, the ‘Barbie’ has broken her silence over her Oscar snub on the category of best actress for her performance in Barbie, the highest grossing film of 2023. While the film got eight nominations including for categories like best picture, best supporting actor and best supporting actress, the Academy award snubbed best actress and best director category.
Breaking her silence on the issue, Margot Robbie, who was also one of the producers of the movie said she was not sad. While speaking to SAG-AFTRA discussion with her co-stars, the Australian actress said, “there”s no way to feel sad when you know you”re this blessed.”
She said the aim of the movie was to “affect culture” which she found as the “biggest reward” that has come out of the film’s success. However, she added that she was upset about the director of the movie, Greta Gerwig not receiving the Academy Award nomination her direction prowess portrayed in the film. Gerwig was nominated for best adapted screen play.
She said, “Obviously, I think Greta should be nominated as a director,” she said. “What she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime thing. What she pulled off, it really is. But it”s been an incredible year for all the films.”
The Oscar nomination of 2024 came out as a “disappointment” to many. While snubs are inevitable during award ceremonies, the snub of ‘Barbie’ movie in the categories of ‘best actress’ and ‘best director’ has become a mammoth in the room. The absence of Barbie on best actress and best director categories on Oscar nomination, despite it being the first female-led movie to cross $1 billion worldwide, and the highest-grossing film of 2023 by taking in $1.44 billion worldwide, has sparked outrage on social media.
While Ryan Gosling, who played Ken in Barbie got nominated for Best Actor category. Gosling said that he was “honoured” to be nominated for best actor for “portraying a plastic doll called ken”, but is disappointed that Robbie and Gerwig was not nominated. He said, “To say that I’m disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement”.
Barbie got total eight nomination in the Oscar 2024, including nomination for best picture. Greta Gerwig bagged the nod from the Academy Award on “Best Screenplay”, along her husband Noah Baumbach. Margot Robbie was recognised as a producer in the best picture line-up. Christopher Nola’s Oppenheimer is soaring high on the list with 13 nominations, with Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downy Jr were nominated for acting, and Nolan was recognised for his directing prowess. The 96TH Oscar Award ceremony will take place on March 10 in Los Angeles.
