“Barbie”
Hillary Clinton comforts Margot Robbie
No Oscar for “Barbie”: Lead actress Margot Robbie
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Ken can, “Barbie” can’t? Margot Robbie has not been nominated for an Oscar. Now she is receiving consolation from Hillary Clinton, among others.
No Oscar for “Barbie”! The non-nomination of leading actress Margot Robbie (33) for the upcoming Oscars continues to make waves. Now even the former has First Lady and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (76) via X (formerly Twitter) took sides with the Australian actress. Fans and colleagues are also outraged by the Academy’s decision.
Cliché of the pink doll refuted
“You deserve the Oscar” or “Forever our Oscar winner”: numerous fans from all over the world feel on their Instagram profile with actress Robbie. Understandable: With international box office revenue of almost 1.5 billion US dollars, “Barbie” was not only the global cinema blockbuster of 2023. The film also surprised many critics with its unexpected portrayal of women. It shows “Barbie” as a modern, socially critical woman who breaks out of her usual role as a pink doll. It is all the more incomprehensible that Margot Robbie, as well as director Greta Gerwig (40), are missing from the list of 2024 Oscar nominees.
“Millions of fans love you”
Robbie and Gerwig are now receiving consolation from the highest authorities. “Even if it hurts to win at the box office but not take home the gold medal: your millions of fans love you,” writes former first lady Hillary Clinton on her X profile, “you are both so much more than enough.” In doing so, she takes up a play on words in the film. Towards the end, Ken wears a hoodie that says “I am Kenough”, made up of the words “Ken” and “enough”.
“I was incredibly disappointed”
Shortly after the nomination list was announced, fellow actor and Ken actor Ryan Gosling (43) expressed his disappointment at Robbie’s failure to be taken into account: “There is no Ken without ‘Barbie’. And there is no ‘Barbie’ film without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie.” , was the actor’s reaction according to Variety magazine“, who himself was nominated for best supporting actor. Robbie also receives support from her colleague and “Barbie” supporting actress America Ferrera (39). Unlike Robbie, Ferrera can still hope for an Oscar. “I was incredibly disappointed about Margot and Greta’s non-nominations”, she says via “Variety”..
Recommendation: watch the film again
Further support for Barbie comes from “Full House” star John Stamos (60) and wife Caitlin McHugh (37). Both responded with a funny TikTok clip that Robbie will be left empty-handed at the Oscars. In the short video, Stamos kicks his garden fence in anger, runs into a huge sign and climbs a tree. Both Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie dedicate the video. They praise the “Barbie” film as a “critical success and cultural phenomenon.”
He humorously “challenges patriarchal norms.” Stamos and McHugh also recommend that everyone – perhaps including the Oscar jury – watch the film again. And successful US author Brad Meltzer (53) summarizes it laconically via Instagram together: “Nominating Ken but not Barbie literally reflects the plot of the film.” Do the Oscar jurors already regret their decision?