Hillary Clinton is being blasted online for likening her 2016 election loss to “Barbie” star Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig’s snub by the Academy Awards.
While the 2023 smash hit became the 14th highest grossing movie of all time with an over $1.45 billion haul worldwide, both the lead actress and director were passed over for Oscar nominations.
Curiously, the film was nominated for best picture and best adapted screenplay, and both America Ferrera and Ryan Gosling are up for Oscars for their supporting roles.
“I was incredibly disappointed that they weren’t nominated,” Ferrera, 39, told Variety on Tuesday.
Greta & Margot,
While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you.
You’re both so much more than Kenough.#HillaryBarbie
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 24, 2024
Gosling issued a statement knocking the lack of consideration for both women the same day.
“There is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally-celebrated film,” he said per CNN.
“To say that I’m disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement.”
Clinton also chose to weigh in with remarks that seemingly referenced her loss to former President Donald Trump in 2016.
“Greta & Margot, While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you,” she tweeted on Wednesday.
“You’re both so much more than Kenough,” she added in reference to a phrase from the film meaning to fully accept oneself without requiring the approval of others.
logging on to see Hillary Clinton chiming in on the Barbie snub discourse in the year of our lord 2024 pic.twitter.com/Wgd7oR7yFO
— Jamie (@jlew8) January 24, 2024
She signed off the post, which garnered more than 31 million views, with a simpering #HillaryBarbie hashtag.
Clinton was mercilessly mocked on social media for her hot take on the Oscars controversy.
“This is literally why everybody hates feminism,” conservative pundit Candace Owens replied.
If you ever needed proof that women are emotionally unsuited to certain positions, look no further than the fact that Hillary Clinton (who still wants to be President) has added her voice to a growing chorus of adult women who are staging public tantrums because their Barbie…
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) January 24, 2024
“A bunch of hyper-privileged woke women are crying because a woman who played Barbie isn’t being considered for best actress in an Oscar’s category.”
“This is the feminist plight today,” she continued. “I so genuinely wish I could not vote for you again.”
Someone else went viral themselves with a scathing reply that amassed over 200,000 views in less than 24 hours.
“Barbie was a bad movie,” they retorted. “Just because it made a lot of money doesn’t make it good or a winner.”
“Similarly, just because Hillary Clinton got a lot of votes doesn’t make her good or President of the United States,” the tweet continued. “Oppenheimer was a much better film. And Trump a better candidate.”
Me: OK hopefully everyone got their Barbie opinions out of their system yesterday and the discourse die do–
Hillary Clinton: pic.twitter.com/JVuLX2bMNS— Jonathan (@jonathanmb32) January 24, 2024
Texas Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz also got a shot in at Clinton.
“Loved seeing so many moms & girls at the movies last summer, but political leaders (inc. failed ones) should NOT dabble in Oscar punditry,” she posted.
“It’s bad for art and God knows our politics are already WAY too intertwined w/ entertainment,” De La Cruz added. “Stop treating politics like a telenovela!”
Whoopi Goldberg got into a tiff with her co-panelists on Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” when she pointed out that not everyone is a winner.
'BARBIE' FANS REACT TO IRONY OF OSCAR SNUB: #TheView co-hosts weigh in after Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in the film, called out Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig's absence from this year's nominations. https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/vB33ymClrf
— The View (@TheView) January 24, 2024
“Here’s the deal: Everybody doesn’t win!” she remarked. “You don’t get everything you want to get.”
“Barbie grossed over $1 billion,” Alyssa Farah Griffin argued. “Hello, studios, maybe hire more female directors if you want to produce blockbusters.”
She noted that women are half of the population and came out in force to see the movie.
“Also, did they miss the whole moral of the story of Barbie?” She said about Gosling’s nomination.
“Of course, we celebrate just Ken, not the woman who’s the lead in it and the icon in it.”
Goldberg said the omission of Robbie and Gerwig from the individual nominations should not be considered snubs.
“It’s not the elites, it’s the entire family of the Academy Awards who vote for Best Picture nominations,” the two-time Oscar winner stated. “We all vote for Best Picture, everybody.”
“There are no snubs,” she continued. “That’s what you have to keep in mind: Not everybody gets a prize, and it is subjective. Movies are subjective.”
“The movies you love may not be loved by the people who are voting,” Goldberg concluded.