Whoopi Goldberg Issues Blunt Message About This Year’s Oscars ‘Snubs’

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 17: Whoopi Goldberg attends Fashion Group International Night of Stars 2023 at The Plaza on October 17, 2023 in New York. (Photo by Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Whoopi Goldberg is over the "snub" talk about this year's Academy Awards, and she's not being shy about shutting it down.

The View cohost addressed the backlash that was a result of Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig failing to garner nominations for their acting and directing, respectively, on the smash blockbuster Barbie, which Ryan Gosling—who was nominated for his role as Ken, despite it being "the girl movie," as Joy Behar put it—even called out.

"[I'm] bummed over the Greta snub," Alyssa Farah Griffin, like many of the rest of us, agreed during Jan. 24's episode. "I just think that Greta Gerwig is brilliant. She's, luckily, been nominated for one before, but I think that she was taking on something so important, and it does kind of feel like the message of the film was sort of missed in it."

But Goldberg doesn't believe they're "snubs," with the EGOT winner stating bluntly, "Here’s the deal: Everybody doesn’t win!"

"You know about the snubs!" Sunny Hostin tried to point out, but Goldberg, who won Best Supporting Actress for Ghost, disagreed that they were "snubs" at all.

"That's what I want to point out," she emphasized. "It’s not the elites — it’s the entire family of the Academy who vote for Best Picture nominations. We all vote for Best Picture, everybody," she went on. "So there are seven to 10 nominations that happen, and you don’t get everything that you want to get."

She continued, "There are no snubs, and that’s what you have to keep in mind: Not everybody gets a prize. The movies you love may not be loved by the people who are voting."

But Griffin believes "they miss[ed] the whole moral of the story of Barbie," adding, "Of course we celebrate just Ken and not the woman who is the lead it in and the icon in it?"

It poses an interesting idea for a sequel: "Barbie goes to Hollywood and is snubbed by the elites who chose Ken over her. So just throwing that out there for an idea," she joked.

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