Ryan Gosling has launched an announcement expressing his disappointment over Barbie director Greta Gerwig and co-star Margot Robbie not receiving Oscar nominations.
Gosling, who performed Ken in Barbie, accounted for eight of Barbie’s nominations. The movie can also be up for Greatest Image, whereas America Ferrera is nominated for Greatest Supporting Actress. Nonetheless, Gerwig and Robbie — the 2 chief artistic forces behind the movie — did not obtain particular person nominations: Gerwig was shut out of the most effective director class, whereas Robbie didn’t obtain a nomination for greatest actress.
In an announcement addressing his personal nomination, Gosling used most of his phrases to specific his disappointment over Gerwig and Robbie’s snubbing. “However there isn’t a Ken with out Barbie, and there’s no Barbie film with out Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the 2 individuals most answerable for this history-making, globally-celebrated movie,” Gosling wrote.
“No recognition could be attainable for anybody on the movie with out their expertise, grit and genius,” he added. “To say that I’m disillusioned that they aren’t nominated of their respective classes could be an understatement.”
“In opposition to all odds with nothing however a few soulless, scantily clad, and fortunately crotchless dolls, they made us snicker, they broke our hearts, they pushed the tradition they usually made historical past. Their work ought to be acknowledged together with the opposite very deserving nominees.”
Robbie and Gerwig can nonetheless stroll away with Oscar gold as producers if Barbie occurs to win Greatest Image. Gerwig and companion Noah Bambach are additionally up for Greatest Tailored Screenplay.
See extra of this 12 months’s Oscars snubs right here.
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