Should Ryan Gosling Give Oscar Nomination To Margo Robbie?

The biggest question following this weeks announcement of the Oscar nominations: should Ryan Gosling give his Oscar nomination to Margo Robbie?

One of the biggest snubs with this years Oscar nominations screams of the Alanis Morissette hit Ironic. The Oscar voting committee  most likely didn't watch last years BILLION dollar blockbuster called Barbie. 

Last year in a now famous tweet, HBO talk show host Bill Maher famously called Barbie man hating and preachy:

Entertainment.com reports Maher saying:

"Spoiler alert, Barbie fights the Patriarchy. Right up to the Mattel board who created her, consisting of 12 white men! The Patriarchy! Except there's a Mattel board in real life, and it's 7 men and 5 women," Maher wrote. "OK, not perfect even-steven, but not the way the board IN THE MOVIE —but this movie is so 2000-LATE."

If you haven't figured it out yet, the star of the man-hating movie (Bill's words, not mine) Margo Robbie, was snubbed and won NO nomination for her movie that got EIGHT. Her man co-star, Ryan Gosling, who played, Ken, was nominated for best supporting actor. Director Greta Gerwig was also snubbed. It's important to note that America Ferrera was nominated for best supporting actress in Barbie.

A moment didn't go by without an immediate response from Robbie's co-star. According to People.com Ryan Gosling said:

"There is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally-celebrated film. No recognition would be possible for anyone on the film without their talent, grit and genius."

So let me get this straight: the movie that puts women first, that you nominated for best picture, didn't award the women that put it..first?

Should the Ryan Gosling Oscar nomination go Margo Robbie and Greta Gerwig? He'd be a hero if he did it.

Well, I guess Margo will have to settle for her $50 million dollar salary after her bonuses and box office payday.

We can't talk Oscars without mentioning the movies that were filmed right here in Massachusetts.

American Fiction with 5 nominations starring Jeffrey Wright and Traci Ellis Ross had several Massachusetts locations in the film.

Add to that, Paul Giamatti's The Holdovers received two nominations and was filmed in Boston and Worcester.

With the 96th annual Academy Awards taking place on March 10, nominations for the coveted awards show have been announced Tuesday morning (January 23).

Jack Quaid and Zazie Beetz announced the nominees live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. In addition to the Oscars airing live on March 10 from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, the ceremony will start an hour earlier at 7 p.m. ET. Jimmy Kimmel is returning as the host for the second year in a row, his fourth time hosting the event overall. Watch the show on ABC, streaming on Hulu Live TV, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV and FuboTV, or on ABC.com and the ABC app by authenticating with your provider.

Fantastic films are nominated for this year's Oscars, with Oppenheimer, Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things, The Holdovers, The Color Purple, Maestro, American Fiction, and Past Lives taking a lot of nominations in the major categories. This year, 321 feature films were eligible for the Oscars, and 265 of those qualified for the Best Picture category. For the first time in history, three of the ten movies nominated for best picture were directed by a female, the most in Oscars history. Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and Celine Song’s Past Lives are battling it out against directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Bradley Cooper. Only four years have included films directed by women for best picture: Lone Scherfig’s An Education, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right, Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone, Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, Siân Heder’s CODA, and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. Three of these women-directed films won best picture in their respective Oscar-nominated years: The Hurt Locker, Nomadland, and CODA.

Take a look below at this year's Oscar nominations:

Sterling K. Brown -- American Fiction

Robert De Niro -- Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr. -- Oppenheimer

Ryan Gosling -- Barbie

Charles Melton -- May December

Mark Ruffalo -- Poor Things

Emily Blunt — Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks — The Color Purple

America Ferrera -- Barbie

Jodie Foster -- Nyad

Da’Vine Joy Randolph — The Holdovers

"The Fire Inside" -- Flamin' Hot

"I'm Just Ken" -- Barbie

"It Never Went Away" -- American Symphony

"Wahzhahzhe" -- Killers of the Flower Moon

"What Was I Made For?" -- Barbie

The Boy and the Heron

Elemental

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Bradley Cooper -- Maestro

Colman Domingo -- Rustin

Paul Giamatti -- The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy -- Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright -- American Fiction

Annette Bening -- Nyad

Lily Gladstone -- Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Huller -- Anatomy of a Fall

Carey Mulligan -- Maestro

Emma Stone -- Poor Things

American Fiction

Anatomy of a Fall

The Zone of Interest