One-Third of Oscars 2024 Nominees Are Women, Despite Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie'sBarbieOmissions

Mar. 15, 2025

From L: Lily Gladstone, Danielle Brooks and Justine Triet.Photo:VALERIE MACON / AFP via Getty; Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty

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About one-third of thenomineeslist unveiled on Tuesday was made up of women, which was a higher portion than the last three years. And of the 22 categories, 18 contain at least one nominee from an underrepresented group.

Not included in Best Actress or Best Director areBarbiestar and directorMargot Robbie, 33, andGreta Gerwig, 40, but the two are both up for Oscars. Gerwig and her husband Noah Baumbach are nominated for best adapted screenplay and Robbie, as a co-producer of the film, is nominated for Best Picture.

Robbie joins eight other women (including Emma Stone, a co-producer ofPoor Things) nominated for Oscars in the coveted Best Picture category.

Other notable women in contention at this year’s Academy Awards include two nominated for Best Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker and Jennifer Lame), one for Best Original Score (Laura Karpman), one for Best Visual Effects (Kiyoko Shibuya), one for Best Adapted Screenplay (Gerwig) and three for Best Original Screenplay (Triet, Samy Burch andCeline Song).

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Da’Vine Joy Randolph inThe Holdovers(2023).Seacia Pavao/FOCUS FEATURES

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Notably,Killers of the Flower MoonBest Actress hopefulLily Gladstoneis thefirst Native American actress to be nominated for an Oscar. In the Best Supporting Actress category, two additional women of color are nominated:Danielle Brooks(The Color Purple) andDa’Vine Joy Randolph(The Holdovers).

Triet, 45, is the eighth woman to benominated in the Best Director category(only three have won:Jane Campionin 2021,Chloé Zhaoin 2020 andKathryn Bigelowin 2009).

Still, Gerwig and Robbie’s exclusion from individual directing and acting categories at the upcoming ceremony has notably drawn criticism from cast membersAmerica FerreraandRyan Gosling, who were nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor, respectively.

Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig in Las Vegas on April 25, 2023.Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images

Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images

“Against all odds with nothing but a couple of soulless, scantily clad, and thankfully crotchless dolls, they made us laugh, they broke our hearts, they pushed the culture and they made history,” Gosling continued. “Their work should be recognized along with the other very deserving nominees.”

While the dad of two added that he was “extremely honored to be nominated” himself in the Best Supporting Actor category, Gosling said thatthere is “no Ken without Barbie. And there is noBarbiemovie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie.”

He went on to call Gerwig and Robbie “the two people most responsible for this history-making globally celebrated film.”

Ferrera, 39, toldVarietythat she “was incredibly disappointed that they weren’t nominated,” and shared in a statement to PEOPLE that Gerwig and Robbie “made history and raised the bar withBarbie.”

Margot Robbie inBarbie(2023).Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures

Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures

“But Margot is a magician as an actress in front of the screen, and it was one of the honors of my career to get to witness her pull off the amazing performance she did,” she added toVariety.

In previous years, Gerwig — who co-wroteBarbiealongside her now-husbandNoah Baumbach— landed a Best Director nod for 2017’sLady Bird, her debut, though she was not nominated for her other film, 2019’sLittle Women. She did earn writing nods for both of those films.

ForBarbie, Gerwig earned directing nominations from the Directors Guild of America,Golden GlobesandCritics Choice Awardsearlier this year. She is nominated alongside Baumbach, 54, for Best Adapted Screenplay at the upcoming Oscars.

Robbie has received two Oscar acting nominations in the past: Best Actress forI, Tonyain 2018, and Best Supporting Actress forBombshellin 2019.

source: people.com