The Oscar noms were released the other day and the world still hasn’t calmed down from Greta and Margot getting dissed. And I guess I can understand why. And I can understand why Ryan and America were nominated. But it wasn’t for their acting. Because I felt all the acting in “Barbie” was meh. In my opinion I feel “Barbie”, although a very good film, was overrated. And that’s coming from someone who has seen it three times. Mind you, not by choice. And neither time in the theater.

Ryan was nominated for the “I’m Just Ken” dance number (because honestly, that’s the best thing Ken does in the entire movie). And America was nominated for the “speech”. Which is a very motivational speech, even coming from someone with such a raspy voice.

But since we’re complaining about who got left out of the nominations for “Barbie”, I’m going to complain that Kate got left out for her portrayal of Weird Barbie and Rhea got left out for her portrayal as Ruth. Without Ruth, there would be no “Barbie”. Because she created Barbie. And Weird Barbie is very pivotal to the movie because without her, Barbie would never have traveled to the real world and when Barbie returns to Barbieland and discovers Ken has taken over, Weird Barbie helps and encourages her to take it back. Without either of these characters, you have a much lesser “Barbie” with main missing points.

We all know every year great films, great directors, great actors/actresses get left out of the Oscars. It’s a given. Whether the cause be the voters or that there are only so many spots. What are you going to do? Boycott the Oscars, I guess.

I only saw three movies in the movie theater in 2023 and I feel at least two of them should have been nominated for some kind of Oscar: “A Man Called Otto” and “Air”. So maybe I should complain about that.

When it comes down to it, the Oscars are just another award show to honor movies we may have seen and many that we have never even heard of. Take it for what it is.