Barbie Oscar discourse is making my headache.

it’s disingenuous to say that Greta and Margot and Barbie were Actually Shit and it’s also indicative of how audiences view comedy as a low brow artform that shouldn’t be held alongside Serious Drama

it’s ALSO disingenuous to say that their lack of nominations is because critics missed the point of the movie because they nominated Ryan Gosling and his song. Yknow, his song *criticising* the patriarchy, written by a woman, Greta Gerwig.

it is ESPECIALLY disingenuous when Barbie scored 8 nominations overall, most of which in categories that they were deserving of! The production design, etc. yeah, absolutely deserved. It *is* getting its flowers. So many deserving films aren’t at all.

Not to mention the fact that the Leading Actress and Best Director category is stacked. Not to mention the fact that most people complaining haven’t even seen the other entries and are using that as a Gotcha. Yes I do think the ‘only one woman is nominated for best director’ pattern is stupid and that Celine Song also deserves a nomination. Which brings me to the fact that Past Lives was absolutely robbed in other categories.

It’s annoying that the defeatist ‘awards hate barbie and therefore women, wow feminism is dead’ discourse is so so stark because Lily Gladstone’s nomination is SO deserved and her inevitable win will be too. Supporting Actress is a category for women, the “why did KEN get nominated and not Barbie” discourse is just stupid.