Whoopi Goldberg slams alleged ‘Barbie’ 2024 Oscars snub frenzy: ‘Not everyone gets a prize!’

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view on the alleged “Barbie” Oscar snubs. The EGOT winner slammed those who claimed “Barbie” had been snubbed by not earning for the 2024 Academy Awards during Wednesday’s episode of “The View.” “‘Barbie’ grossed over $1 billion.

Hello, studios, maybe hire more female directors if you want to produce blockbusters,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said during the show’s “Hot Topic” segment. “We’re half the population, we turn out, we want to see these.

Also, did they 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.”“The message of all of that is not lost on me, but one question I have — and maybe Whoopi is the only one that can answer this — when does it become a snub,” Sara Haines rebuffed. “I know the film, I know the greatness and the money, but that assumes someone else shouldn’t be in there.”Goldberg, who once served on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ board, stepped into the discussion stressing that “everybody doesn’t win.”“It’s not the elites, it’s the entire family of the Academy Awards who vote for Best Picture nominations,” Goldberg, 68, told her co-anchors. “We all vote for Best Picture, everybody.”“You don’t get everything you want to get,” Goldberg added while talking over Sunny Hostin who attempted to say that she thought it was a “snub” to leave Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” out of the 2023 Oscar race. “There are no snubs,” the “Ghost” actress stated. “That’s what you have to keep in mind: Not everybody gets a prize, and it is subjective.