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, stated all the way through a SAG-AFTRA screening of Barbie on Tuesday, January 30, in step with Closing date. “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, according to the Mattel doll of the similar call. Gerwig wrote the script along with her husband, Noah Baumbach, and so they collectively earned an Oscar nomination for Highest Adaptation Screenplay. Gerwig, then again, used to be now not known for Highest Director, nor used to be Robbie — who performed the titular persona — within the Highest Main Actress class.
“[I’m] beyond ecstatic that we’ve got eight Academy Award nominations, it’s so wild,” Robbie gushed on Tuesday, honors which come with Highest Image and respective Supporting Actor and Actress nods for Ryan Gosling and The united states Ferrera.
Oscar popularity apart, Robbie, who produced Barbie along husband Tom Ackerley, is even prouder of what the movie has accomplished to audience.
“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 were “the biggest reward” of constructing the movie. (Barbie additionally earned the award for Field Place of job and Cinematic Fulfillment on the Golden Globes previous this month.)
“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, used to be additionally pleased with Barbie however did really feel upset that Robbie and Gerwig weren’t known 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 Leisure 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, used to be additionally saddened to peer 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 stated in a remark. “To say that I’m disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement.”