HILLARY CLINTON reacts to Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig’s Oscars snub

Hillary Clinton has chimed in on director Greta Gerwig and actress Margot Robbie not being nominated on the Academy Awards for ‘Barbie.’ 

The former secretary of state posted on social media on Wednesday morning: ‘Greta & Margot, whereas it could sting to win the field workplace however not take dwelling the gold, your hundreds of thousands of followers love you. You’re each a lot greater than Kenough.’

The 76-year-old additionally added #HillaryBarbie on the backside of her put up onto X, previously generally known as Twitter, becoming a member of the likes of Ryan Gosling in condemning the snub.

The checklist for the 96th Academy Awards, which is about to happen on March 10, was launched on Tuesday, with the 2 notable omissions prompting a flood of ire. 

Adding insult to harm was the nomination of Robbie’s male co-star Ryan Gosling, who’s up for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Ken within the film. 

Another Barbie star, America Ferrera, was additionally nominated for Best Supporting Actress. 

Gosling went so far as issuing a unprecedented assertion criticizing the Academy for not nominating the pair. 

However, he stopped in need of giving up his personal Oscar nomination in protest. 

Gosling ceremoniously wrote: ‘There isn’t any Ken with out Barbie, and there’s no Barbie film with out Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the 2 individuals most liable for this history-making, globally-celebrated movie.

‘No recognition can be doable for anybody on the movie with out their expertise, grit and genius. To say that I’m disenchanted that they aren’t nominated of their respective classes can be an understatement.

‘Their work ought to be acknowledged together with the opposite very deserving nominees.’

Some followers have been left unimpressed with Gosling’s assertion, with one individual saying: ‘It can be a strong assertion if he withdrew his identify from consideration.’

Others on-line mentioned that Gosling ought to ‘merely decline’ the Oscar nomination – and never present as much as the star-studded occasion in any respect if he’s really outraged and disenchanted.’

One individual wrote: ‘He can decline and provides the nomination to a different actor. So many issues that he can do…’

LA Times critic Mary McNamara additionally claimed Barbie would have been nominated for an Oscar had she been a prostitute, the survivor of a serial killing, or if she threw Ken out of the Dream House window. 

McNamara mentioned the nominations – and lack thereof – confirmed how voters have been out of step with the feminist messaging within the movie. 

‘How did voters justify giving “Barbie,” with its very clear message that girls have to bop backward in heels to get half the validation their male friends get, a finest image nom whereas ignoring the 2 girls who made that image doable?’ McNamara wrote.

The critic refers to 3 movies which did obtain glowing nominations – ‘Poor Things,’ which options intercourse work, ‘Killer’s of the Flower Moon,’ about serial slaughter, and ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ a few lady accused of her husband’s homicide. 

‘If solely “Barbie” had accomplished just a little time as a intercourse employee,’ McNamara mused. ‘Or barely survived turning into the subsequent sufferer in a mass homicide plot. Or stood accused of shoving Ken out of the Dream House’s high window.

‘Certainly hundreds of thousands of “Barbie” followers are at the moment wishing they may push somebody — maybe a member or two of the movie academy — out of a really excessive window.’

Director Gerwig, 40, was nominated for a lesser class, tailored screenplay, alongside her husband Noah Baumbach, 54 – one thing McNamara described as ‘breathtaking’ in its irony.