Whoopi Goldberg decided to chime in about the story of the week: Greta Gerwig’s Oscar snub in the director category and Margot Robbie’s Oscar snub in the lead actress category. Weirdly, Whoopi doesn’t see a problem with the snubs. Whoopi is one of only nineteen people in history to have secured the elusive EGOT – Whoopi won a Supporting Actress Oscar for Ghost, a Grammy for a comedy album, a Tony for Thoroughly Modern Millie (in 2002) and two Emmys, one for The View and one for Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel. Whoopi knows about awards and she’s hosted the Oscars four times. Here’s what she had to say:
Whoopi Goldberg is an Oscars legend, having won an Academy Award for “Ghost” and hosted the ceremony four times and served as an Academy board member. So perhaps moviegoers might want to listen to Goldberg when she says there are no such thing as Oscar snubs amid the uproar over Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie missing out on nominations for best director and best actress, respectively, at the 2024 Oscars.
“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 asked Goldberg on “The View” (via Entertainment Weekly). “I know the film, I know the greatness and the money, but that assumes someone else shouldn’t be in there.”
Goldberg answered by saying “everybody doesn’t win” and “you don’t get everything you want to get.”
“There are no snubs,” said added. “That’s what you have to keep in mind: Not everybody gets a prize, and it is subjective. Movies are subjective. The movies you love may not be loved by the people who are voting.”
What’s slightly funny about this is that most people agree that Robbie and Gerwig’s snubs happened because Oscar voters thought Barbie was too light, too funny, too girly, not serious enough, not about important man things like war, bombs or whatever Bradley Cooper’s comically offensive prosthetic nose was about. And Whoopi is one of the rare actors who won an Oscar for a mostly comedic performance. Anyway, Whoopi isn’t wrong – it’s all subjective and not everybody gets a prize. Not to mention, many people win Oscars for everything but their performance that year – Al Pacino winning for Scent of a Woman, simply because he never won for The Godfather, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, etc. You might even say Whoopi won for Ghost because she didn’t win for The Color Purple.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Warner Bros/Barbie.
- Whoopi Goldberg attends The Revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” Broadway opening night at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 13, 2022 in New York, New York, USA.,Image: 730441708, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Whoopi Goldberg, Credit line: Robin Platzer / Twin Images / Avalon
- Whoopi Goldberg attends The Revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” Broadway opening night at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 13, 2022 in New York, New York, USA.,Image: 730441711, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Whoopi Goldberg, Credit line: Robin Platzer / Twin Images / Avalon
