Actress and comedienne Whoopi Goldberg has rejected claims that director Greta Gerwig and actress Margot Robbie were “snubbed” of their respective Oscar nominations for Barbie.
Goldberg issued her rather surprising argument during Wednesday’s episode of The View. “Here’s the deal: Everybody doesn’t win,” said Goldberg. “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 added. “You don’t get everything that you want to get.”
The conversation began when Alyssa Farah Griffin praised actor Ryan Gosling for his statement lamenting that neither Gerwig nor Robbie received an Oscar nomination.
“There is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most…
