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Jimmy Kimmel had a message for the Academy members who didn't vote for Greta Gerwig in the Best Director category. During his 2024 Oscars opening, the comedian addressed the elephant in the room: the women responsible for Barbie, a film up for eight nominations tonight, were not recognized.
"I know that winning an Oscar is something you've dreamed about since you were a kid, and now here we are, all dressed up celebrating the best of the best beginning with the biggest movie of the year: Barbie," Kimmel said as he took to the stage after appearing in a remixed clip from the blockbuster film, per People. "Now Barbie is a feminist icon thanks to Greta Gerwig, who many believed deserved to be nominated for Best Director."
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The audience clapped as Gerwig humbly waved, and Kimmel followed that up by reminding the crowd who was responsible for her lack of nomination — the Academy voters, many of whom were in the room. "You're the ones who didn't vote for her, by the way!" he joked. "Don't act like you had nothing to do with this. You did this!"
Kimmel also went on to praise leading lady Margot Robbie, who was also left off the ballot this year despite starring in the film. (Robbie is a producer and therefore was part of the group that earned the nod for Best Picture.) "Again, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are here tonight," he said as the camera panned to show the co-stars. "Look kids, it's Barbie and Ken sitting just near each other."
"Ryan and Margot, I want you to know that even if neither one of you wins an Oscar tonight, you both already won the something much more important: the genetic lottery," he teased. Gosling had the cutest reaction to the joke by pulling his sister into the frame.
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