Robert Irwin has slammed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after Margot Robbie failed to secure a best actress Oscar nomination for her starring role in the box office smash Barbie.
The conservationist, 20, appeared on Australian talk show The Project on Wednesday and echoed Ryan Gosling’s sentiment ‘there’s no Ken without Barbie’ after he scored a best actor nod while Robbie and director Greta Gerwig failed to make the cut, despite Barbie being the highest grossing film of 2023.
‘That’s ridiculous. Come on,’ he began.
‘[Director] Greta [Gerwig] and Margot made that movie,’ he continued.
‘That’s the reason why we have the Barbie movie, it’s ridiculous’.
Robert Irwin has slammed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after Margot Robbie failed to secure a best actress Oscar nomination for her starring role in the box office smash Barbie. Pictured
The conservationist, 20, appeared on Australian talk show The Project on Wednesday and echoed Ryan Gosling’s sentiment ‘there’s no Ken without Barbie’ after he scored a best actor nod while Robbie and director Greta Gerwig failed to make the cut, despite Barbie being the highest grossing film of 2023. Pictured: Gosling and Robbie
Co-host Waleed Aly, 45, then asked if Robert would be renouncing his American citizenship over the injustice and was shocked by his response.
‘I think it only makes sense,’ Robert said.
Movie fans were shocked after AMPAS revealed the Oscar nominations and neither Margot Robbie or director Greta Gerwig were nominated for their work on Barbie.
The omissions attracted extra attention on account of the fact that Ryan Gosling, 43, who played Ken, received a nomination for best supporting actor.
Some social media commentators leapt to point the finger at 𝑠e𝑥ism – despite the fact America Ferrera was nominated for best supporting actress for the same film.
Ryan’s big musical number in the film, I’m Just Ken, is also up for an award with the nomination honoring songwriters Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt.
‘That’s ridiculous. Come on,’ he began. ‘[Director] Greta [Gerwig] and Margot made that movie,’ he continued. ‘That’s the reason why we have the Barbie movie, it’s ridiculous’. Pictured: Gerwig and Robbie
Further, Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell landed a nod for What Was I Made For?, another song written for Barbie.
‘Ryan Gosling, while deserving, got an Oscar nomination for Barbie while Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie didn’t?’ wrote one outraged fan on X.
‘Completely proving the point of the movie in 20 f***ing 24 you cannot make this up,’ the social media user added, referring to the movie’s feminist themes.
Although Margot is not in the running for best lead actress, the movie itself is up for best picture, meaning she has in fact been nominated as a producer.
Margot has previously been nominated for two Oscars – best lead actress for her 2017 film I, Tonya, a biopic of Tonya Harding, and best supporting actress for the 2020 movie Bombshell.
Movie fans were shocked after AMPAS revealed the Oscar nominations and neither Margot Robbie or director Greta Gerwig were nominated for their work on Barbie.
Movie fans were shocked after AMPAS revealed the Oscar nominations and neither Margot Robbie or director Greta Gerwig were nominated for their work on Barbie. The omissions attracted extra attention on account of the fact that Ryan Gosling , 43, who played Ken, received a nomination for best supporting actor
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