Has there been a bit of drama with the Oscar nominee announcements? Of course there has. Read on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Greta Gerwig Snubbed in the Best Director Category<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s not exactly new for great female directors not to get a look in the Best Director category. Sure, they\u2019ve been nominated before, but they\u2019ve never won. Heck, only three have won in the entire history of the awards (Katherine Bigelow, Chloe Zhao, Jane Campion), and only eight have ever received a nomination. While it didn\u2019t seem likely that Greta was going to win the gong when the Oscar committee was faced with contenders like Christopher Nolan, the fact that Gerwig didn\u2019t even get a nomination is criminal. As the first female director to make a billion-dollar joint, she absolutely needed to be among the candidates, and it\u2019s bizarre that she\u2019s already been pushed out of the competition. She\u2019s a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world, and she deserves better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ryan Gosling Gets a Supporting Actor Nomination<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On that note, good on Ken for backing up the injustice on Greta\u2019s snub, as well as his Barbie co-star Margot Robbie getting rejected too. Speaking to Entertainment News, Ken\/Gosling commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018I am extremely honoured to be nominated by my colleagues alongside such remarkable artists in a year of so many great films, and I never thought I\u2019d be saying this, but I\u2019m also incredibly honoured and proud that it\u2019s for portraying a plastic doll named Ken. But there is no Ken without Barbie and there is no Barbie movies without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally celebrated film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
No recognition would be possible for anyone on the film without their talent, grit and genius. To say that I\u2019m disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an un understatement. Against all odds with 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 recognised along with the other very deserving nominees\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You go Ken. You\u2019re more than a ten. And Gosling praised America Ferrera for her Best Supporting Actress nomination too. A proper, upstanding guy. A righteous dude, to quote Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Willem Defoe Gets Snubbed for a Best Supporting Actor<\/p>\n\n\n\n This one hasn\u2019t been widely discussed, and it\u2019s understandable why. Poor Things<\/em> is Emma Stone\u2019s film, through and through. She lights up the stage with her na\u00efve, comic and fascinated protagonist as she fills the screen, but Defoe nonetheless deserves awards recognition for his performance as her eccentric creator. He deserved more attention for his comedic genius in The Lobster<\/em> too, but that\u2019s a different story. I guess neither of these performances are generally ones that the award crowds go for, particularly not the Oscars, but Defoe nonetheless deserves some cred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from those upsets, it\u2019s a fairly predictable list of nominations, with all the big hitters on the line. But I\u2019ll keep you in the loop if more Oscar drama occurs any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Has there been a bit of drama with the Oscar nominee announcements? Of course there has. Read on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}