Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie are celebrating a number of Oscar awards nominations for his or her record-breaking film Barbie, however each have been disregarded of their very own respective classes for Greatest Director and Greatest Actress, following Tuesday’s announcement by the Academy of Movement Image Arts.

The movie, which has received eight nominations in complete, was arguably 2023’s greatest cinema hit – because the highest-grossing film of the yr worldwide, it was additionally broadly thought-about a cultural watershed marker and signalled large success for Greta Gerwig as a feminine filmmaker.

Whereas disregarded of the Greatest Director and Greatest Actress classes, Barbie did safe nominations for Greatest Image, Greatest Supporting Actress (America Ferrera), Greatest Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling), Greatest Tailored Screenplay, Greatest Costume Design, Greatest Unique Tune (for each I am Simply Ken and What Was I Made For?) and Greatest Manufacturing Design.

Following the information, numerous movie followers have taken to social media in shock – significantly in response to Greta’s snub.

One wrote on X (previously Twitter): “So Greta Gerwig created one of the crucial unique movies of the last decade, one which fully blew aside individuals’s expectations of what a #Barbie film may very well be & resonated with hundreds of thousands … but apparently that’s not *fairly* value a nomination for finest director???”

One other identified: “Greta Gerwig made a movie that was critically acclaimed, culturally impactful, hilarious, distinctive, visually distinctive, completely forged and acted, left individuals laughing, crying and pondering AND made a billion {dollars} on the field workplace. However no Greatest Director nom?!”