Whoopi Goldberg has a totally different view on the “Barbie” Oscar snubs.
The EGOT winner slammed those who claimed “Barbie” had been snubbed by the 2024 Academy Awards during Wednesday’s episode of “The View.”
” ‘Barbie’ grossed over $1 billion. Hello, studios, maybe hire more female directors if you want to produce blockbusters,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said during the show’s “Hot Topic” segment. “We’re half the population, we turn out, we want to see these. Also, did they miss the whole moral of the story of ‘Barbie’? Of course, we celebrate just Ken, not the woman who’s the lead in it and the icon in it.”
“The message of all of that is not lost on me, but one question I have — and maybe Whoopi is the only one that can answer this — when does it become a snub,” Sara Haines rebuffed. “I know the film, I know the greatness and the money, but that assumes someone else shouldn’t be in there.”
Goldberg, who once served on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ board, stepped into the discussion stressing that “everybody doesn’t win.”
“It’s not the elites, it’s the entire family of the Academy Awards who vote for Best Picture nominations,” Goldberg, 68, told her co-anchors. “We all vote for Best Picture, everybody.”
“You don’t get everything you want to get,” Goldberg added while talking over Sunny Hostin who attempted to say that she thought it was a “snub” to leave Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” out of the 2023 Oscar race.
“There are no snubs,” the “Ghost” actress stated. “That’s what you have to keep in mind: Not everybody gets a prize, and it is subjective. Movies are subjective.
“The movies you love may not be loved by the people who are voting,” she bluntly stated.
Goldberg’s take on the situation comes a day after the film was nominated for eight awards but failed to secure a nomination for Greta Gerwig or Margot Robbie for Best Director and Best Actress respectively.
“I was incredibly disappointed that they weren’t nominated,” America Ferrera told Variety shortly after being nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the film.
“Greta has done just about everything that a director could do to deserve it. This world, and taking something that didn’t have inherent value to most people and making it a global phenomenon. It feels disappointing to not see her on that list,” Ferrera, 39, continued.
“What Margot achieved as an actress is truly unbelievable,” the “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” alum continued. “Margot is a magician as an actress in front of the screen, and it was one of the honors of my career to get to witness her pull off the amazing performance she did.”
Ryan Gosling also voiced his dismay that Gerwig, 40, and Robbie, 33, did not receive a nomination.
“I am extremely honored to be nominated by my colleagues alongside such remarkable artists in a year of so many great films,” Gosling, 43, said. “And I never thought I’d be saying this, but I’m also incredibly honored and proud that it’s for portraying a plastic doll named Ken.”
“But 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 continued. ”No recognition would be possible for anyone on the film without their talent, grit and genius.
“To say that I’m disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement,” the “Notebook” alum stated. “Against all odds with nothing but a couple of soulless, scantily clad and thankfully crotchless dolls, they made us laugh, they broke our hearts, they pushed the culture and they made history. Their work should be recognized along with the other very deserving nominees.”
Neither Robbie nor Gerwig has commented on the snub.
Former first lady Hillary Clinton also weighed in on the snub by stating: “While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you. You’re both so much more than Kenough. #HillaryBarbie”
