Oscars: Barbie’s Ryan Gosling ‘dissatisfied’ by Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s nomination snubs

Actor Ryan Gosling has mentioned he’s “dissatisfied” that Barbie’s Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie had been snubbed in main Oscar nomination classes.

Gosling mentioned he was “honoured” to be nominated for finest supporting actor for “portraying a plastic doll named Ken”.

“However there isn’t any Ken with out Barbie, and there’s no Barbie film with out Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie.”

Many had anticipated Gerwig and Robbie to be nominated in the most effective director and finest actress classes respectively.

However there have been nods for the 2 elsewhere. Robbie was recognised as a producer in the most effective image line-up, whereas Gerwig was nominated alongside her husband Noah Baumbach for finest tailored screenplay.

Barbie was the highest-grossing movie of 2023, taking $1.44bn (£1.14bn) worldwide.

In an announcement to CBS, the BBC’s US media companion, Gosling mentioned: “I’m extraordinarily honoured to be nominated by my colleagues alongside such exceptional artists in a yr of so many nice movies”.

On the similar time, the Canadian actor described Gerwig and Robbie as “the 2 individuals most answerable for this history-making, globally-celebrated movie”.

“No recognition could be doable for anybody on the movie with out their expertise, grit and genius.

“To say that I am dissatisfied that they aren’t nominated of their respective classes could be an understatement.

“Towards all odds with nothing however a few soulless, scantily clad, and fortunately crotchless dolls, they made us giggle, they broke our hearts, they pushed the tradition and so they made historical past. Their work needs to be recognised together with the opposite very deserving nominees.

Nonetheless, Gosling added that he was “so pleased” for America Ferrera – who obtained a shock nomination for finest supporting actress – in addition to the opposite “unbelievable artists who contributed their skills to creating this such a groundbreaking movie.”

Ferrera additionally mentioned she was “extremely dissatisfied” that Gerwig and Robbie weren’t recognised within the main nomination classes.

Total, the Barbie movie obtained eight nominations, together with for finest image.

Many movie followers on social media had been dismayed by the Academy’s decisions, with some suggesting the snubs for Robbie and Gerwig however the inclusion of Gosling was ironic, given the movie’s message about feminism and the patriarchy.

One fan wrote: “Ken getting nominated and never Barbie is actually so becoming for a movie a few man discovering the facility of patriarchy within the Actual World.”

However others argued that the nominations had been in line with the sorts of decisions the Academy normally makes, and that, regardless of Barbie’s business success, movies of a better high quality had been recognised as an alternative.

Posting on X, one said: “[It’s] objectively humorous that lead actresses from two glorious movies in Anatomy of a Fall and Killers of the Flower Moon (in addition to a feminine director for the previous) had been nominated, however as a result of the two-hour commercial for Mattel did not we’ve to faux it is some grand injustice.”

In the meantime, Ferrera “was very seen on the marketing campaign circuit the place her knockout monologue – the movie’s most severe second – was prominently performed”, he famous.

Elsewhere, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer – one other enormous field workplace success – leads the sector with 13 nominations.

Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr had been nominated for appearing prizes, and Nolan for finest director.

Poor Issues, about an toddler whose mind has been transplanted into the physique of a grown lady, was the second-most nominated movie, with 11 nominations.

The 96th Academy Awards – or the Oscars – might be held on 10 March in Los Angeles.