Carey Mulligan reacts to furore over Oscars snubbing Barbie director Greta Gerwig

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Carey Mulligan has admitted she is “gutted” for Barbie director Greta Gerwig after she was sensationally snubbed from this yr’s Academy Awards.

The 2024 Oscar nominations have been met with a fierce backlash, together with a withering open letter from Barbie star Ryan Gosling, after it emerged that each Gerwig and lead actor and producer Margot Robbie had not been nominated.

Mulligan, who stars in Bradley Cooper’s Best Picture contender, Maestro, is up for Best Actress for her efficiency as Felicia Montealegre, the spouse of legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein.

She is competing towards stars together with Poor Things’ Emma Stone and Killers of the Flower Moon actor Lily Gladstone.

In an interview with The Times, Mulligan addressed the uproar surrounding the Barbie snubs and questioned what else Gerwig may have achieved to deserve a nod.

“I’m gutted for Greta because I don’t know what else you can do as a director to get nominated,” she mentioned.

“You make a critically acclaimed film that’s also an incredible global success, and yet you don’t get nominated?”

Mulligan mentioned anybody who claims not to care in regards to the Oscars is “100 per cent lying”.

A nomination “is just the coolest thing. Because it’s from your peers. It’s wicked,” she mentioned.

The Oscar nominations triggered a frenzy once they have been introduced final month, with critics together with Barbie stars Gosling and America Ferrera, and former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wading into the row.

In a press release seen by The Independent,Gosling mentioned there was “no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally-celebrated film”.

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“No recognition would be possible for anyone on the film without their talent, grit and genius,” he continued.

“To say that I’m disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement.”

Robbie broke her silence on the snub earlier this week, telling Deadline there was “no way to feel sad” when “you’re this blessed”.

She added that she was “beyond ecstatic that we’ve got eight Academy Award nominations – it’s so wild”.

“Everyone getting the nods that they’ve had is just incredible, and the Best Picture nod,” Robbie continued.

“Obviously I think Greta should be nominated as a director because what she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime thing, what she pulled off, it really is. But it’s been an incredible year for all the films.

“We set out to do something that would shift culture, affect culture, just make some sort of impact,” she mentioned. “And it’s already done that, and some, way more than we ever dreamed it would. And that is truly the biggest reward that could come out of all of this.”