Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera react to Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s Oscar snubs
"There is no Ken without Barbie," says Ryan Gosling
The 24 hours after the Oscar nominations are announced has historically been the period when we all let out our frustrations over the terrible snubs of the year, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera are joining in the festivities this year after the Motion Picture Academy declined to nominate director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie—and yet the film received a Best Picture nomination, so maybe someone can explain how it did that without its director or star.
Ferrera, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actress, was the first to offer her reaction to the nomination/lack of nomination, saying (via Variety) she was so stunned by her own nod that she was sure she had made it up until her phone “started blowing up” and she realized it was real. After talking to her publicist and then her husband, Ferrera got a FaceTime call from the other members of the Sisterhood Of Traveling Pants, who she says are “amazing” and “such a gift” in her life.
But as for Gerwig and Robbie, Ferrera said she was “incredibly disappointed” that they weren’t nominated with her, saying “Greta has done just about everything that a director could do to deserve [a nomination]” and that “what Margot achieved as an actress is truly unbelievable.” She says Robbie is good at making everything look easy, theorizing that “perhaps people got fooled” into thinking she wasn’t giving the “amazing performance” that she gave.
Gosling, who is up for Best Supporting Actor, said in a statement that “there is no Ken without Barbie, and there is not Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally-celebrated film.” He says it would “be an understatement” to say he’s disappointed that they didn’t get nominated, and that “no recognition would be possible for anyone on the film without their talent, grit, and genius.” He ended his statement by adding that he is still “so happy for America Ferrera and the other incredible artists who contributed their talents to making this such a groundbreaking film.”