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.
What Does Gosling Have To Say?
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.
Two Massachusetts Films Earn Oscar Nominations
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.
