It was the Oscars snub heard ’around the world: When nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards had been introduced on Tuesday, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie—you already know, that movie you’ve been listening to about for everything of your grownup life—got here away with a complete of eight noms, together with for finest image and finest tailored screenplay, however Gerwig herself wasn’t nominated in the perfect director class. Margot Robbie’s flip as Stereotypical Barbie was additionally ignored, in favor of nods for America Ferrera and Ryan Gosling within the supporting classes. “To say that I’m disillusioned that they don’t seem to be nominated of their respective classes could be an understatement,” the latter wrote of Gerwig and Robbie in an announcement.

As an unreserved Barbie stan myself, I completely get the place Gosling is coming from; not solely is it gentlemanly within the excessive of him to look out for his colleagues, nevertheless it is kind of dystopian (and really according to the message of Barbie!) to see Gosling—the movie’s most distinguished male actor—among the many two performers singled out. Was he flawless as Ken? Completely, however the entire film is about feminine friendship and feminism—a message that it appears the Academy nonetheless desperately wants to listen to, provided that Anatomy of a Fall helmer Justine Triet is just the eighth girl ever to be nominated for the Oscar for finest director.

Gosling isn’t the one individual jarred by the Oscars‘ Barbie imbroglio, as no much less an authority on gender-based snubbing than Hillary Clinton weighed in on Wednesday with a message of assist for Gerwig and Robbie. “Whereas it may sting to win the field workplace however not take dwelling the gold,” Clinton wrote on X, “your tens of millions of followers love you. You’re each a lot greater than Kenough.”