The Oscar nominations came out yesterday with some very obvious snubs. The 2024 Academy Awards should have been a battle between Barbie and Oppenheimer. Instead, Barbie didn't get nominations for Best Director or Best Actress.
I'm looking at the list and thinking WTF?!
A lot of folks are outraged Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie didn't get nods for Best Director and Best Actress. The speculation is that they were dissed for being women. That may be so, but there are other factors involved.
First, the Academy rarely nominates movies that are super successful. There's a bias within the membership that a financially successful movie has no artistic merit. Which is total bullshit of course, but it's part of a trend in mentality between the so-called elite and hoi poloi.
Second, Barbie is based on a popular toy. It doesn't matter that the cast and crew used this toy to used to slice apart and comment the social and emotional inequality forming our culture that harms all genders. According to adults, the sheer existence of a toy isn't mature or serious enough to merit an award nomination.
In an ironic turn to America Ferrara's excellent monologue, Greta and Margot were deprived of Oscar noms for the very contradictions Gloria lists in her speech.
Maybe it does come down to Greta and Margot being women.
And that totally sucks.
However, America's speech totally netted her nomination as Best Supporting Actress. If you haven't seen the movie, here's her clip:
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