Sylvia Jeffreys has weighed in on the controversial Oscars snub of Barbie star Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig this week.
Fury is mounting after Margot was passed over for best actress, while Greta Gerwig failed to secure a nomination for best director.
The omissions attracted extra attention on account of the fact that Ryan Gosling, who played Ken, did get nominated for best supporting actor.
Among those outraged by the decision was Today Extra co-host Sylvia, who penned a lengthy essay for 9Honey on Thursday explaining why the Academy made a grave mistake.
Describing Barbie as ‘ground breaking’, Sylvia said the Academy had ‘self-sabotaged’ by nominating Ryan rather than ‘the women who made the movie possible’.
Sylvia Jeffreys has weighed in on the controversial Oscars snub of Barbie star Margot Robbie (right) and director Greta Gerwig (left) this week
‘As many on the internet have pointed out, this is literally the feminist plot of the film, and this is why so many fans were left in a pink-hot rage over Gerwig’s and Robbie’s omissions,’ she argued.
Sylvia also argued that the Academy has wrongly ignored the ‘nuances in the screenplay and script’, as well as Margot’s ‘deeply layered performance’.
She said Barbie herself wouldn’t have wanted the ‘fancy doorstop’ of an Oscars statuette anyway, and that the film doesn’t need the validation of pompous critics.
Sylvia (pictured) argued that the Academy has wrongly ignored the ‘nuances in the screenplay and script’, as well as Margot’s ‘deeply layered performance’
She also argued that Barbie herself wouldn’t have wanted the ‘fancy doorstop’ of an Oscars statuette anyway, and that the film doesn’t need the validation of pompous critics
‘[Barbie] flipped the script on gender roles and made the female population feel seen in a delightfully entertaining, yet searingly moving way,’ she wrote.
‘If the Academy doesn’t get that, she doesn’t need their recognition. She’s already made an impact where it counts.’
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.
America Ferrera was also nominated for best supporting actress, while Greta and her husband Noah Baumbach are nominated jointly for having written the adapted screenplay of Barbie.
Fury is mounting after Margot was passed over for best actress, while Greta Gerwig failed to secure a nomination for best director. The omissions attracted extra attention on account of the fact that Ryan Gosling (left) who played Ken, did get nominated for best supporting actor
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 film Bombshell, which dramatized the story of the Fox News sex scandals.
Meanwhile, Greta was previously nominated for the best director Oscar for her 2017 film Lady Bird, which marked her first time solo at the helm of a feature film.
She was also nominated for that film’s screenplay, as well as the script of her follow-up feature, the 2019 adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.
