Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig's Snub at Oscars 2024 Has 'Barbie' Fans in a Towering Rage

As the 2024 Oscar nominations hit the headlines this morning, the snubs directed at the dynamic duo behind “Barbie”— director Greta Gerwig and lead actress Margot Robbie—swiftly stole the spotlight. Not surprisingly, the exclusion of the highest-grossing film of 2023, which crossed the $1 billion mark globally and brought the imagined life of the iconic Mattel doll to the big screen, has sent fans into a towering rage. Their battle cry? The movie’s omission brilliantly mirrors its very essence — a rebellion against patriarchy!

While the film wasn’t left entirely in the cold, securing a nomination for best picture, and Ms. Gerwig snagging a nod with Noah Baumbach for adapted screenplay, along with Ryan Gosling for supporting actor and America Ferrera for supporting actress, the revelation that Mr. Gosling got the nod for his towheaded Ken, embroiled in the discovery of patriarchy and a face-off in Barbieland with Ms. Robbie’s character dismantling gender-based oppression (in the movie), proved a bit too spicy for some palates.

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Indeed, “Barbie” functions as a dual-layered commentary on sexism, and on its own role in feminist discourse, the film served as the epicentre for fans expressing their outrage over the snubs. One fan aptly declared on the micro-blogging site ‘X’, “The snub of Margot’s and Greta’s Oscar nominations proves the whole point of Barbie.”

Another chimed in, “You have to be a leading lady but you can’t be nominated for best actress. You have to be a strong female director but you can’t be nominated for best director. You have to have a wildly popular dance song but you can’t be nominated for best original song.” The third echoed, “Barbie getting a nom for best picture but not best director is so weird cause like. no one walked away from that thinking “that was the best movie of the year” but everyone walked away from that thinking how they should let more women direct big budget FUN MOVIES.”

The fourth fan cut to the chase, “Let me see if I understand this: the Academy nominated “Barbie” for Best Picture (eight nominations total) — a film about women being sidelined and rendered invisible in patriarchal structures — but not the woman who directed the film. Okay then.”

But it wasn’t just the fans fuming; even the Oscar 2024 nominee Mr. Gosling unleashed a strongly-worded statement in response to the snub, expressing that it was an “understatement” to say he was “disappointed” by the absence of Gerwig and Robbie in their respective categories.

“Their work should be recognised alongside the other very deserving nominees,” he declared. “Against all odds with nothing but a couple of soulless, scantily clad, and thankfully crotchless dolls, they made us laugh, they broke our hearts, they pushed the culture and they made history.”

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Now, with Mr. Gosling standing alongside the fans on the same stage, the internet is buzzing with speculation about a potential revenge moment at the Oscars, as one post boldly proclaimed, “I hope he wins and roasts everyone.”