Greta Gerwig Got Snubbed At The Oscars Because Barbie Is This Year’s Dark Knight

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La نامزدهای اسکار are in, and there’s something missing from the Best Director and Best Picture nominees — or is there? None of us at Polygon quite expected باربی to make it, nor Greta Gerwig to snag a Best Director nom, but… should she have? And why not?

We got into a debate about it in our newsroom. Here’s how it went down.

تکه های مت: Greta Gerwig missing out for director in باربی… this is an actual snub.

Maddy Myers: Stupid question: باربی is a comedy and I always feel like the Oscars don’t really do comedies, so the snub isn’t that weird to me. Is that wildly off?

Austen Goslin: I think that nails it pretty much.

Maddy Myers: Nice. I’m very smart.

Matt Patches: I think this explains some of it but not all of it, and maybe has more to do with the expanded voting body. باربی transcended! America Ferrera got a nom! داستان های آمریکایی is a comedy that got tons of noms. The Greta snub is about global embrace of two Euro favorites: آناتومی یک سقوط و منطقه مورد علاقه. They said at the top that they received ballots from 93 countries this year. The Oscars is Cannes-y now.

Maddy Myers: داستان های آمریکایی is a comedy… in a way… but NOT in the same way that باربی است.

Matt Patches: Oh, of course not. But باربی also has prestige pedigree — the guy who shot قاتلان گل ماه shot it!

Maddy Myers: I think if someone literally dies in the first act of your movie then you get to qualify for an Oscar nom.

Matt Patches: Barbie wants to die, does that count?

Maddy Myers: My wife said after we concluded داستان های آمریکایی that it was “the best so far” out of all the Oscar contenders and I said “what about the باربی movie?” and she just stared at me.

Matt Patches: Maybe the take this year is… there wasn’t room for all the good types of direction in movies. And austere “serious” direction once again boxed out the inventive. چیزهای بیچاره و باربی are too similar in Big Ideas and the complex, considered work in باربی is not obvious enough (and too pink?). که گفت ، اگر باربی came out in the 1940s, Greta would have been nominated. Dance sequences! Battle scenes! Slapstick comedy!

Maddy Myers: I mean, I love how weird باربی was considering that it’s about the most popular children’s toy in the world. And the movie is clearly trying to exceed its grasp, but it’s the باربی movie and there’s only so much you can do (something the باربی movie itself stares at the screen and says to you). My other problematic take is that Gosling deserved a nom and no one else did. But if that had happened, people probably would have been mad, I guess.

Austen Goslin: I don’t think the comedy thing is canceled out by America’s nomination. Supporting performance is the realm of “we’re tossing the comedy a bone here.”

Maddy Myers: She’s not who I would have picked, but you’re right. And doesn’t the big brand of it all weigh it down too for the average voter? It would be as shameful as voting for a Marvel Comics adaptation.

Austen Goslin: Weirdly, the best analogue to باربی might be… شوالیه تاریکی?

Maddy Myers: YES. Austen, exactly.

Austen Goslin: The best picture nom is the 10 nominations category doing its job but the rest feels right in line. Otherwise it’s a pop blockbuster made with impressive craft and skill by its director, someone the Academy has already recognized but not quite anointed just yet. Both movies got supporting performance noms, the place the Academy is most comfortable rewarding blockbusters and comedies. Meanwhile, each did well in technical categories and broke into slightly bigger categories, with adapted screenplay for باربی and cinematography for شوالیه تاریکی. It seems extra fitting that these comparisons line up so well in the same year that Christopher Nolan is the favorite for best director. Maybe it also means that Greta Gerwig will make her آغاز به کار بعد.

Matt Patches: OK fine I forgive them.