Whoopi Goldberg Says Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig Weren’t Snubbed by Oscars for ‘Barbie’: “Not Everybody Gets a Prize”

Whoopi Goldberg is sharing her ideas on Barbie‘s Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig being snubbed from the Academy Awards’ finest leading starlet and finest supervisor elections, specifically.

The EGOT champion stated on Wednesday’s episode of The Sight, “Here’s the deal: Everybody doesn’t win,” prior to including, “They’re not snubs. And that’s what I want to sort of point out.”

“It’s not the elites, it’s the entire family of the Academy who vote for best picture nominations. We all vote for best picture, everybody,” she stated pertaining to the 10 elections for the most effective photo classification.“You don’t get everything that you want to get.”

Barbie followers, along with some Hollywood celebrities, have actually been requiring to social networks because Tuesday early morning, sharing their frustration over Robbie and Gerwig being excluded of those 2 groups, although the movie obtained a nod for finest photo. Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera likewise racked up noms for finest sustaining star and starlet, specifically.

Gosling likewise launched a declaration following his election claiming that he was “honored” by his nod yet “disappointed” by Gerwig and Robbie’s snubs, including,“There is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally celebrated film.”

Earlier throughout The Sight discussion, panelist Alyssa Farah Lion applauded the star for his remarks prior to asking,“Did they [the Academy] miss the whole moral of the story of Barbie? Of course we celebrate just Ken, not the woman who’s the lead in it and the icon in it.”

However cohost Sara Haines after that chipped in with a various take, asking, “When does it become a snub?”

“I know the film, I know the greatness and the money, but that assumes someone else shouldn’t be in there because you have five people [nominated], everyone below the five is a snub of sorts,” she included. “There’s always going to be the snub category of greats.”

Goldberg, that formerly won an Oscar for finest sustaining starlet for her function in 1990’s Ghost, stated, “There are no snubs, and that’s what you have to keep in mind: Not everybody gets a prize. … The movies you love may not be loved by the people who are voting.”