Margot Robbie reacts to Oscar snub: ‘No need to feel sad but Greta Gerwig should be nominated’

Oscar 2024: Margot Robbie opened up about being snubbed for an Oscar for Barbie. Speaking on the social media rage over Margot and Greta Gerwig’s exclusion from the nominations, the actor claimed that the Barbie director ought to have been competing for best director. Variety reports that Margot made her statement while attending the SAG-AFTRA conversation with her Barbie co-stars.

“There’s no way to feel sad when you know you’re this blessed,” Margot Robbie said during a panel at a special SAG screening. I think Greta should be nominated as a director because what she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime thing, what she pulled off, it is. But it’s been an incredible year for all the films,” she added.

Barbie, the only billion-dollar movie directed entirely by a woman, made $1.4 billion at the box office globally last year, outperforming every other movie. As Robbie said, the reaction to the film has become a kind of cultural phenomenon: “I just suspect it’s bigger than us. It’s bigger than this movie, it’s bigger than our industry.”