Sure, Barbie did safe nominations for Finest Image, Finest Supporting Actress (America Ferrera), Finest Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling), Finest Tailored Screenplay, Finest Costume Design, Finest Unique Tune (for each I am Simply Ken and What Was I Made For?) and Finest Manufacturing Design.

Margot and Greta – the 2 most integral ladies of Barbie – being snubbed can solely, in my view be all the way down to rank sexism, plus a whiff of snobbery.

I really feel deeply enthusiastic about Barbie (as you may most likely inform). The truth that this courageous and boundary-breaking, feminist movie with feminine empowerment at its coronary heart has reached billions of individuals on the planet is deeply vital for the development of girls’s rights. Sure, many individuals really feel icky about the truth that it was funded by Mattel and it might, as some have argued, be seen as an unprecedented stroke of promoting and business genius on the toymakers behalf, however it’s so, a lot greater than that. Its messaging about what it means to be a girl in at present’s society, what it has meant to be a girl all through historical past and its blatant makes an attempt to topple the patriarchy and disrupt gender stereotyping has by no means been seen as the primary plotline of a mainstream, field workplace smash hit movie in cinema’s historical past.

Thousands and thousands of younger ladies – and boys – now have an understanding of what the patriarchy is and the way we will all hope and attempt to dwell in a world the place ladies are revered and handled as having alternatives which are equal to males.

I do know males whose eyes have been opened since watching Barbie and who’re heralding it as probably the greatest movies they’ve ever seen. Certainly, based on a survey carried out by Resume Builder within the States after the movie got here out, 53% of respondents stated that Barbie improved their opinion of girls within the office, 74% of conservative males stated the movie improved their view of girls in management roles and a pair of in 3 stated that the movie made them extra conscious of patriarchy within the office. It has real societal affect.

When it comes to illustration, the movie was additionally sensible and exquisite with race, physique kind and gender illustration on the forefront. Irritating, sure, that as a result of doll’s historical past, Margot Robbie’s ‘stereotypical Barbie’ along with her blonde hair, blue eyes and ludicrously proportioned physique was the lead position and maybe Greta and her husband Noah Baumbach, who wrote the screenplay, might have performed round with numerous lead roles and storylines extra. However we had Issa Rae’s magnificent flip as President Barbie, Hari Nef as Physician Barbie, Sharon Rooney as Lawyer Barbie, Rita Ayru as Journalist Barbie, nevermind the second supporting Ken, Simu Liu, and Ncuti Gatwa as yet one more Ken giving splendid performances.

In distinction, what does Oppenheimer – which is broadly anticipated to select up the massive gongs on the night time, because it did on the Golden Globes and Critics Selection Awards – train us? That males can create a weapon that’s able to destroying the planet? That male ego and deception coupled with damaging, underhand politics is what makes the world go spherical? That girls get missed, sidelined and find yourself, as Emily Blunt’s sensible portrayal of Oppenheimer’s spouse, Katherine did, depressing alcoholics?

In fact, Barbie nonetheless might scoop the board on the Oscars within the eight classes wherein it’s nominated, however for Greta and Margot to not even stand a likelihood to compete is exasperating and regressive and I’ll say it once more, outright sexist. Which can be deeply ironic given all that Barbie represents.

I hope that the swell of shock generated by this choice may lastly trigger the dinosaurs of the Academy to take a seat up and concentrate – as a result of god is aware of Greta and Margot tried bloody onerous sufficient to do exactly that.