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Greta Gerwig was robbed of a nomination for Best Director.
Her sensibility — that bubblegum-pink swirl of splashy musical numbers, jokes about the Snyderverse, and commitment to exploring the complexities of the female condition — is what made the film such an odd, delightful, and surprisingly moving work about what it means to be a woman in a world that seems designed to dismiss their capabilities. But a Best Director nomination would have been for her alone and would have acknowledged that the movie that had the broadest cultural impact in the past year — at the box office, in the Zeitgeist, hell, even on the interest in Oscar front-runner Oppenheimer — could have not have done so without a woman at the helm. But not one of them, aside from the SeeHer Award that was presented to Ferrera, was broadcast during the CW telecast until host Chelsea Handler went rogue and insisted that Gerwig and Margot Robbie, Barbie ’s star and executive producer, make an acceptance speech for winning Best Comedy.
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