Margot Robbie breaks her silence following brutal Best Actress Oscars snub for Barbie film

Margot Robbie broke her silence as she followed her Oscars snob for her work in the blockbuster Barbie.

The Australian actress set social media ablaze when she failed to score a Best Actress nomination for her leading role, even though the film was the biggest film of 2023.

Greta Gerwig also failed to get a nomination for best director, while Ryan Gosling, who played Ken, was nominated for best supporting actor.

Margot, 33, spoke about the furor during a SAG-AFTRA panel discussion on Thursday.

“You can’t feel sad knowing that you’re so blessed,” she began, adding that she was “beyond ecstatic” with the film’s eight Oscar nominations.

“It’s just incredible that everyone is getting the nods that they’ve had, and the best photo nod,” she continued.

Margot Robbie has broken her silence following her Oscar snub for her work in the blockbuster Barbie. Pictured

The Australian actress set social media ablaze when she failed to score a Best Actress nomination for her lead role, even though the film was the biggest film of 2023

The Australian actress set social media ablaze when she failed to score a Best Actress nomination for her lead role, even though the film was the biggest film of 2023

“People’s reactions to the film have been the biggest reward of this whole experience,” she added.

‘I can’t imagine a time when a film has had this effect on culture. And it’s great to be in the eye of the storm.”

Some social media commentators pointed the finger at sexism for Robbie’s Best Actress award, despite the fact that America Ferrera was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the same film.

Margot, 33, spoke about the furor during a SAG-AFTRA panel discussion on Thursday.

Margot, 33, spoke about the furor during a SAG-AFTRA panel discussion on Thursday. “There’s no way to feel sad knowing that you’re so blessed,” she began, adding that she was “beyond ecstatic” with the film’s eight Oscar nominations.

“It's just incredible that everyone is getting the nods that they've had, and the best photo nod,” she continued

“It’s just incredible that everyone is getting the nods that they’ve had, and the best photo nod,” she continued

“People's reactions to the film have been the biggest reward of this whole experience,” the actress continued

“People’s reactions to the film have been the biggest reward of this whole experience,” the actress continued

“Ryan Gosling, even though he deserved it, got an Oscar nomination for Barbie, while Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie didn’t?” wrote an outraged fan on X.

“This totally proves the point of the movie in 20 f***ing 24, you can’t make this up,” the social media user added, referencing the film’s feminist themes.

‘Wait Ryan Gosling was nominated for his role as Ken, but Margot Robbie wasn’t nominated for Barbie?! And Greta was rejected for Best Director?!?! Way to justify the literal plot of the movie,” another X user wrote, echoing the theme.

Some social media commentators pointed the finger at sexism – despite the fact that America Ferrera was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the same film

Some social media commentators pointed the finger at sexism – despite the fact that America Ferrera was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the same film

A third groused: ‘If Ryan deserved a nomination then Margot would have, the fact she wouldn’t have won isn’t the point. It almost feels like the Academy deliberately played into the film’s theme to get people talking. #Oscars are no longer about who actually deserves it.’

While Margot isn’t in the running for Best Lead Actress, the film itself is nominated for Best Picture, meaning she’s actually nominated as a producer.

Greta and her husband Noah Baumbach are also jointly nominated this year for writing Barbie’s adapted screenplay.

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X, formerly known as Twitter, erupted in outrage at the insults

X, formerly known as Twitter, erupted in outrage at the insults

The film was also nominated for Best Costume Design, Best Production Design and two nominations for Original Music, bringing its total number of entries to eight.

Margot has previously been nominated for two Oscars: Best Lead Actress for her 2017 film I, Tonya, a biopic about Tonya Harding, and Best Supporting Actress for the 2020 film Bombshell, which dramatized the story of Fox News’ sex scandals.

Meanwhile, Greta was previously nominated for the Best Director Oscar for her 2017 film Lady Bird, marking her first solo helm of a feature film.

She was also nominated for that film’s screenplay, as well as the script of her follow-up film, the 2019 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.

Complete list of Oscar nominations 2024 – see who is nominated for this year’s Academy Awards

Best photo

American fiction

Anatomy of a fall

Barbie

The survivors

Killers of the Flower Moon

Master

Oppenheimer

Past lives

Poor things

The zone of interest

Best director

Justine Triet, Anatomy of a fall

Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor things

Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest

Actress in a leading role

Annette Bening, Nyad

Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall

Carey Mulligan, master

Emma Stone, Poor Things

Actor in a leading role

Bradley Cooper, master

Colman Domingo, Rustin

Paul Giamatti, The Remains

Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Actress in a supporting role

Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple

America Ferrera, Barbie

Jodie Foster, Nyad

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Remains

Actor in a supporting role

Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction

Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer

Ryan Gosling, Barbie

Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Animation film

The boy and the heron

Elementary

Nimona

Robot dreams

Spider-Man: About the Spider-Verse

Cinematography

El Conde

Killers of the Flower Moon

Master

Oppenheimer

Poor things

Original screenplay

Anatomy of a fall

The survivors

Master

May December

Past lives

Adapted scenario

American fiction

Barbie

Oppenheimer

Poor things

The zone of interest

Achievement in production design

Barbie

Killers of the Flower Moon

Napoleon

Oppenheimer

Poor things

Performance in sound

The creator

Master

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning part one

Oppenheimer

The zone of interest

Original song

‘The Fire Inside’ by Flamin’ Hot

‘I’m Just Ken’ by Barbie

‘It Never Went Away’ from American Symphony

‘Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)’ by Killers of the Flower Moon

‘What was I made for?’ from Barbie

Original score

American fiction

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

Poor things

Live action short film

The After

Invincible

Knight of Fortune

Red, white and blue

The beautiful story of Henry Sugar

Short animated film

Letter to a pig

95 senses

Our uniform

pachyderm

THE WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the music of John and Yoko

Documentary feature film

Bobi Wine: the people’s president

The eternal memory

Four daughters

To kill a tiger

20 days in Mariupol

Documentary short film

The ABCs of the book ban

Little Rock’s hairdresser

Island in between

The last repair shop

N|i Nai and Wài Pó

Iinternational feature film

Io Capitano, Italy

Perfect days, Japan

Association of the Snow, Spain

The Teachers’ Lounge, Germany

The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom

Makeup and hair styling

Gouda

Master

Oppenheimer

Poor things

Association of the Snow

Achievement in Costume Design

Barbie

Killers of the Flower Moon

Napoleon

Oppenheimer

Poor things

Achievement in film editing

Anatomy of a fall

The survivors

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

Poor things

Visual effects

The creator

Godzilla Minus one

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning part one

Napoleon