There has by no means been a 12 months the place the Academy managed to appease all frayed nerves with its listing of nominations. Somebody is at all times displeased, and sad that their favorites didn’t make it to the listing. However 2024 is the primary time when the Oscars have managed to piss everybody off. Fairly a feat, huh?
We get it — selecting the worthy ones in 2023 who deserve all of the accolades should have been one robust activity. Snubbing a number of that deserved to be on the listing of Oscars 2024’s nomination listing was a obligatory evil. Damaged hearts on the market proper now are attempting to console others that Charles Melton not getting the Greatest Actor nomination for Might December is a bitter tablet we’ve got to swallow. However Ryan Gosling getting nominated within the class for Barbie whereas each Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig are absent from the large listing…?
So, Margot was Barbie, Greta Gerwig made it actual, and but the nom nonetheless goes to Ken? I don’t find out about winter, however a bloody hurricane has already breached its peak on social media and it’s solely headed in direction of Beverly Hills.
Through the years, the Academy voters have battled many accusations and have been referred to as biased when it persistently failed to acknowledge deserving girls administrators. Final 12 months noticed no girls within the class and the Academy’s try to repair that error this 12 months — with Justine Triet for Anatomy of the Fall — is already wanting like a botch job due to the obtrusive absence of Gerwig.
Whereas Gosling’s choice is a topic of celebration, in fact, and he undoubtedly deserves the nom., his identify as an Oscar nominee is barely serving to triple underline what irony means. Life imitating artwork, anybody?
Yep, America Ferrera, who performed Gloria in Barbie, is up for the Greatest Actress in a Supporting Function, however whether or not it’s the celebration round Gosling’s nomination or the dissatisfied discourse round it, it has successfully blurred out her well-deserved presence within the listing.
For as soon as, the web, as an alternative of being the platform the place everybody tears one another aside, is following the “us vs them” battle mannequin; i.e., we the filmgoers vs. the Academy and its unanimously-labeled “damaged voting system.”