If they hadn't nominated Annette Bening in Nyad, I wouldn't blink at Margot not being nominated. But that feels like a "show up" nomination, and in such a competitive year, there's no reason to nominate someone just for making a movie unless you're specifically trying NOT to nominate someone else. It just really looks like they took any opportunity not to nominate Barbie that they could.

Same for the director category. Super competitive, and yeah, there's not the same number of spots as best picture. But the attitude seems to be "we can only have one woman at a time" in that category which is bullshit, and clearly they did not want to take Barbie as seriously as a movie like Poor Things, which has very similar themes. I don't find Poor Things better than Barbie, however, so I would have given Yorgos's nomination to Greta.

I'm sure there are people who like Poor Things better than Barbie, but to those people I would ask, why? Is it because it has a sheen of seriousness and Barbie doesn't?