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Jan. 24, 2024 - Candace Owens
09:38
Of COURSE Margot Robbie Isn't an Oscar Nominee!
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All right, guys, let's get into a time machine and revisit this moment from 2009.
Where were you when this happened at the MTV VMA Awards?
Thank you so much for giving me a chance to win a VMA Award.
Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you.
I'm going to let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time.
One of the best videos of all time.
Oh, I remember where I was.
I was so angry.
It's actually really funny to watch it now because we're 14 years removed from it.
But we all remember how outrage we were.
Taylor Swift was up there so innocent.
And I used to love Taylor Swift back then.
And she was so excited to win this award for the best music video.
And then Kanye, how evil he jumps on stage and takes it for her.
And then he very quickly became persona non grata.
everybody in Hollywood came after him.
But Taylor Swift, I would say, benefited from the scandal.
She was everywhere following that, which is why he says that
she owes her for his fame.
But the reason why I'm revisiting that circumstance is because now
that we're able to reflect on it, we can think about it in a way
that removes us from the earlier emotion.
And I think Kanye was obviously making a very valid point.
While people disagreed with him for his style, no one's ever accused Kanye West of being polite, right, when he does these things, no one actually disagreed with the claim that he made on stage.
So I'll jog your memory. Taylor won for best video for her song, You Belong With Me.
Here was the video for that song.
Take a look. I wear t-shirts.
She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers.
Look, it's cute. It's Teenie Bopper.
She's dancing and she's holding up signs for a guy.
She's changing her clothes into different outfits in front of a mirror.
It was definitely a very cute video and teenagers loved it.
But yes, Beyonce did in fact put out one of the greatest music videos of all time that year.
Let me remind you of what the single ladies music video looked like.
Uh-oh.
Oh, come on.
You're not supposed to be in the video.
You're not supposed to be in the video.
You still want to dance when you see it.
It was wonderful. It was artistic.
And Kanye was understandably outraged.
Again, I'm not justifying the way he went about it, but understandably outraged.
Like, why are we even here if we're not going to be awarding people based on a meritocracy?
That was the point he was making.
Of course, Taylor Swift should not have beat out Beyonce if it was based on merit for her video You Belong With Me when weighed against single ladies.
It It is outrageous.
It was outrageous. Which brings me to Barbie.
Obviously, the movie was iconic in the way that it brought to life our childhood.
I mean, I didn't see the movie, but you can understand the fan reaction to it.
Oh my gosh, we are actually going to watch Barbie.
We all loved Barbie. People took their daughters to go see Barbie.
Everybody was suddenly buying Barbies.
It was, as a fact, the highest grossing film last year.
And as I said, you can understand why.
People love Barbie.
But does that mean that Barbie should sweep the awards at the Oscars simply because you have an emotional attachment to the character?
Yeah, well, that's what's going on right now.
People are very, very upset because they have announced the Oscar nominations.
And despite the fact that Ryan Gosling is listed as Best Supporting Actor and America Ferreira is listed as a Best Supporting Actress nomination, they left out Margot Robbie.
Margot Robbie is not listed as one of the people who is up for the best acting category.
Now, a lot of things that I want to say here, and I'm just going to be frank with you, but this is just such a woman thing.
It is just women being emotional and illogical and thinking that emotion should win the day.
People are calling this sexism.
Obviously, that makes no sense.
Let me say this. It doesn't exactly take a cultural genius to deduce that the character Barbie probably did not require the most complex acting capabilities.
Okay, I'll ask you a question. What is the best acting that you've ever seen?
Think about the movie where you would go, honestly, I was so blown away by the acting
that this person should win every award.
In recent memory, I always think of Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born.
If you have not seen his performance in that, you should.
He is incredible.
It is a very layered performance.
I remember watching it and saying to myself, Bradley Cooper must have been an alcoholic
because there's just no way that he could deliver such a precise performance.
He was incredible.
He should have won every single award.
I don't even think he did. I don't know if he did.
But the point is that it was because of his amazing acting capabilities.
There is just no way that when I asked you that question, you went, Barbie.
Yeah, no, absolutely. Margot Robbie in Barbie, definitely, when I think of an actor or an actress that is just so amazing, I would think of Margot Robbie.
Of course not. Because just by the nature of it being a Barbie movie, it probably tells you that the characters themselves are not that complex.
And when you're thinking of a category as the best actress for the entire year— We're good to go.
In 2018, she was nominated for Best Actress for the movie I, Tonya.
And that is because that required a more complex skill set.
She was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress back in 2020 for the movie Bombshell, the story about Fox News.
So yes, based on her own merit, Margot Robbie has proven that she is able to secure Oscar nominations.
So why do you want to force her into a category that clearly she probably doesn't deserve?
Again, this is not sexism.
But despite that, and because there's always a feminist gun to men's heads these days, Ryan Gosling, who is up for supporting actor, probably because it doesn't require nearly as much acting skill, and again, I will mention America, Ferreira is also listed as a best supporting female role.
He was forced to issue this statement.
He wrote, Say that I'm disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement.
So yeah, he is upset.
I don't think he actually is.
I think in reality, like I said, there's just a feminist gun to his head.
And God forbid you are a man and you accept an award when women are screaming and shrieking.
Yeah, not going to be good for you or your career.
Which is why I say welcome to the matriarchy.
It really makes me laugh when people pretend that we are existing in some sort of a patriarchy.
If we were living in a patriarchy, which I think we should be, I want the patriarchy to come back, the world wouldn't be nearly as whiny and as annoying as it is today.
We would not be hearing, I mean, the height of privilege.
A bunch of women upset because Barbie didn't get a nomination.
I love Barbie.
I had all the Barbies.
I don't understand. It must be because women are just unappreciated for their work.
No, maybe it's just because they weren't the best.
That's it. They just weren't the best in that category.
And there were better films that were more deserving of the nod.
And that does not remove the fact that obviously Greta Gerwig did a great job directing the film.
It was the highest grossing film.
Hey, I would say if this was the Nickelodeon Awards, any other pop awards, they should probably sweep the categories because that's what it was.
It was popular. It was cult.
People loved it. But it's also not a serious film that puts Margot Robbie in the contender for Best Actress.
That's honestly it, guys.
It's not a big deal. If you're still upset because you think that Barbie just was not being acknowledged at the Oscars, it's because your eyes are not open.
Just to be clear, Barbie is up for best picture, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, adapted screenplay, original song, costume design, and production design.
And still it's not enough because feminists need more.
All of this to say, Kanye was right again.
Hey guys, if you like this video, you will definitely like the full episode even better.
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