So many of us were upset (and still are) about all of the Barbie snubs with the Oscars. I know that I am. It feels like The Academy doesn’t take everything into account and it also feels like they have too much to take into account. Even as much as I love movies and television shows, I couldn’t imagine having to judge them.
Or vote on them.
And yet I do that all the time. Just not on the level that The Academy has to. It feels like a lot of pressure.
Though a lot of people were outraged over Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig’s lack of nominations, Helen Mirren was not one of them.
“You can’t get upset about things like that, honestly,” she said when talking with ET. “What is fantastic is that Barbie was the highest-grossing film that Warner Brothers has ever had in their lives and do you remember who won best film of the year before last?”
True, we may not remember that. But for this writer it was more about the fact that Barbie was one of the movies that showed the power of women, the way that we create and that people want to see stories that are unique on the silver screen.
She continued, “I mean, of course I would have loved to have seen Greta [be nominated], and I think she should win best [director]. It’s so difficult, it’s not a running race, you know, you can’t — Christopher Nolan’s work on Oppenheimer was spectacular, extraordinary. But for me, Greta’s work was so out there, it was so brave, it was something we’d never seen before. I just love the fact that the audience responded the way they did.”
We wish she would have been nominated. We also get Mirren’s comments. It feels like a lot – understanding both sides of the coin.
