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Margot Robbie has damaged her silence on Barbie’s Academy Awards snubs.
“There’s no way to feel sad when you know you’re this blessed,” Robbie, 33, mentioned throughout a SAG-AFTRA screening of Barbie on Tuesday, January 30, in line with Deadline. “Obviously, I think Greta [Gerwig] should be nominated as a director, because 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.”
Gerwig, 30, directed Barbie, which got here out in July 2023, primarily based on the Mattel doll of the identical title. Gerwig wrote the script together with her husband, Noah Baumbach, and so they collectively earned an Oscar nomination for Best Adaptation Screenplay. Gerwig, nevertheless, was not acknowledged for Best Director, nor was Robbie — who performed the titular character — within the Best Leading Actress class.
“[I’m] beyond ecstatic that we’ve got eight Academy Award nominations, it’s so wild,” Robbie gushed on Tuesday, honors which embrace Best Picture and respective Supporting Actor and Actress nods for Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera.
Happy Oscar nominations morning, everyone! “Happy,” truly, in all probability doesn’t even start to explain director Christopher Nolan’s temper at this second. In a span of simply 23 minutes, his acclaimed summer season mega-blockbuster Oppenheimer was name-checked at least 13 instances. (Imagine if Billie Eilish had crafted a tune for it.) Martin Scorsese might be ecstatic, too. […]
Oscar recognition apart, Robbie, who produced Barbie alongside husband Tom Ackerley, is even prouder of what the movie has achieved to viewers.
“I just suspect it’s bigger than us. It’s bigger than this movie, it’s bigger than our industry,” she gushed. “We set out to do something that would shift culture, affect culture, just make some sort of impact and it’s already done that, and some, way more than we ever dreamed it would. And that is truly the biggest reward that could come out of all of this.”
Robbie additional added that fan reactions have been “the biggest reward” of creating the movie. (Barbie additionally earned the award for Box Office and Cinematic Achievement on the Golden Globes earlier this month.)
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“I’ve never been a part of something like this. … I’ve done comic book stuff and that gets a big reaction, but this felt very different,” Robbie added. “It still feels very different. And I can’t think of a time when a movie’s had this effect on culture. And it’s amazing to be in the eye of the storm.”
Ferrera, 39, was additionally happy with Barbie however did really feel upset that Robbie and Gerwig weren’t acknowledged on the Oscars as an actress and a director, respectively.
“Their work in both of those categories was phenomenal, and in my book, [they] deserve to be acknowledged for the history they made, for the ground they broke, for the beautiful artistry,” Ferrera instructed Entertainment Weekly after nominations have been introduced. “They’re my girls, and I want to see them celebrated for their amazingness, so that part of [my nomination] is definitely bittersweet.”
Gosling, 43, was additionally saddened to see Robbie and Gerwig snubbed. “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,” he mentioned in a press release. “To say that I’m disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement.”
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