Whoopi Goldberg is sharing her thoughts on Barbie‘s Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig being snubbed from the Academy Awards’ best leading actress and best director nominations, respectively.
The EGOT winner said on Wednesday’s episode of The View, “Here’s the deal: Everybody doesn’t win,” before adding, “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 said regarding the 10 nominations for the best picture category. “You don’t get everything that you want to get.”
Barbie fans, as well as some Hollywood stars, have been taking to social media since Tuesday morning, sharing their disappointment over Robbie and Gerwig being left out of those two categories, even though the film got a nod for best picture. Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera also scored noms for best supporting actor and actress, respectively.
Gosling also released a statement following his nomination saying that he was “honored” by his nod but “disappointed” by Gerwig and Robbie’s snubs, adding, “There is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally celebrated film.”
Earlier during The View conversation, panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin praised the actor for his comments before asking, “Did they [the Academy] miss the whole moral of the story of Barbie? Of course we celebrate just Ken, not the woman who’s the lead in it and the icon in it.”
But cohost Sara Haines then chimed in with a different take, asking, “When does it become a snub?”
“I know the film, I know the greatness and the money, but that assumes someone else shouldn’t be in there because you have five people [nominated], everyone below the five is a snub of sorts,” she added. “There’s always going to be the snub category of greats.”
Goldberg, who previously won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in 1990’s Ghost, said, “There are no snubs, and that’s what you have to keep in mind: Not everybody gets a prize. … The movies you love may not be loved by the people who are voting.”
