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# Greta Gerwig, Bradley Cooper, and the Strange Curse of Ambition

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## Video: The Biggest Snubs and Surprises of the 2024 Oscar Nominations

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_Published 2024-01-23. The 2024 Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday morning and Oppenheimer led the day with 13 nods, including for Best Picture, Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), and Best Supporting Actress (Emily Blunt). Poor Things and Killers of the Flower Moon followed close behind, with 11 and 10 nominations, respectively._


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## Stephanie Zacharek


Film Critic

Jan 24, 2024 5:15 PM UTC

Even in an age when you can shoot a movie on an iPhone, you need the heart of a lion to make a film and get it out there. To make all the necessary decisions, to get the gears going for every day of pre-production, shooting, and post-production, to answer each of the million and one questions that come up on a film set, you need higher-than-normal confidence levels, and any self-doubts you have had better be worked out in private. This is as true in 2024 as it was in 1924, 1954, 1974, or any year in between. And it’s as true for a veteran director (like [Martin Scorsese](https://time.com/collection/time100-leadership-series/6311403/martin-scorsese-killers-of-the-flower-moon-interview/)) as it is for a younger, less-well-knownFrench filmmaker who got her start in documentaries (like [_Anatomy of a Fall_ ](https://time.com/6323274/anatomy-of-a-fall-review/)director Justine Triet).

And still, in the world of filmmaking—as elsewhere—[_ambition_ is a dirty word](https://time.com/6219467/end-of-ambition/), especially if you’re a woman. When the [Oscar nominations were announced on Jan. 23](https://time.com/6565196/oscar-nominations-2024-snubs-surprises/), it wasn’t particularly surprising that both [_Barbie_](https://time.com/6289864/barbie-time-cover-story/) and [_Maestro_](https://time.com/6310176/maestro-review-leonard-bernstein-bradley-cooper/) received Best Picture nods. But the people most clearly responsible for bringing those pictures to the screen, [Greta Gerwig](https://time.com/5180697/how-greta-gerwig-is-leading-by-example/) and [Bradley Cooper](https://time.com/collection-post/3822915/bradley-cooper/), were absent from the Best Director category. _Barbie_ and _Maestro_ are two wildly different pictures, and there are night-and-day distinctions between the sensibilities of the directors who made them: Gerwig is sunshine; Cooper is moonlight. The Academy is, of course, a voting body and not a sentient individual. But this group—even after it became more diversified in the wake of the Oscars So White movement—still has its blind spots, especially when it [comes to women and people of color.](https://time.com/6565410/lily-gladstone-oscar-nomination-first-native-american/) So it’s normal to wonder if there isn’t some collective disapproval shining through the scrim of these omissions. Are both Gerwig and Cooper guilty of wanting too much too soon?


**Read more:** [_The Internet Has a Surprising Theory About Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Oscars Snub_](https://time.com/6576866/oscars-2024-greta-gerwig-snub-internet-fan-theory/)

One of the problems, of the Academy’s own making, is that there are 10 Best Picture slots and only 5 for Best Director. (The change was made in 2009 to widen the playing field and to provide more chances for films in less frequently recognized genres, like animation and comedy, to win.) So in any year, it’s likely there will be four or five movies that seemingly directed themselves; singling those filmmakers out as [being snubbed](https://time.com/6565502/margot-robbie-ryan-gosling-greta-gerwig-barbie-oscars/) doesn’t take much imagination. But for whatever reason, the other non-nominated directors whose films made the Best Picture cut this year ([Celine Song](https://time.com/6284223/past-lives-celine-song-greta-lee-interview/) for _Past Lives,_ Alexander Payne for [_The Holdovers_](https://time.com/6329153/the-holdovers-review/)_,_ and Cord Jefferson for [_American Fiction_](https://time.com/6520620/iamerican-fiction-review-jeffrey-wright/)_)_ don’t have the same hot-button quality that Gerwig and Cooper have. Though they’ve of course done interviews, they haven’t been as widely exposed—or perhaps overexposed—as Gerwig and Cooper have. These two face another liability: both are actors as well as directors, which means the public automatically has a deeper relationship with them—and actor-directors always have to work harder to prove their worth as filmmakers, too. Unwittingly, Gerwig and Coopermay have ended up like the kids in class who sit up front and beg, “Pick me, pick me!” The teacher, almost reflexively, looks right past them. Maybe you would, too.


But for better or worse, Cooper and Gerwig are in a class by themselves this year. Gerwig defied expectations by making what was seen by many as a smart, feminist movie about a semi-controversial toy; she also delivered a [huge box-office hit](https://time.com/6304654/barbie-box-office-biggest-movie-2023/), and the [fact that a woman could actually do](https://time.com/6292203/barbie-box-office-women-movies/) so hit Hollywood like a lightning bolt. (My onetime mother-in-law, a New Englander by marriage, used to have an expression that summed up this type of _duh!_ moment: “The light dawns on Marblehead.”) And although the idea for _Maestro_ didn’t originate with Cooper, he jumped into the project with Leonard Bernstein-like gusto; he studied conducting for six years in preparation. He took a chance by wearing a prosthetic nose for his role, which [incited controversy](https://time.com/6305450/bradley-cooper-maestro-trailer-jewface/) early on—and however you ended up feeling about that nose, once you saw it in that first released image, you couldn’t unsee it. As their films rolled out, the one thing Gerwig and Cooper had in common was that you couldn’t ignore them.


![BARBIE](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb37a553c36ca449e/698a3e5bcabb1d7f11e51887/rev-1-BARBIE-TP-0006_High_Res_JPEG.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp)

Barbie (Margot Robbie) dances the night away Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

Maybe that turned out to be a liability. The Barbenheimer phenomenon turned _Barbie_ into a force of nature; it was great for the industry, but somewhat exhausting in the runup.By the time _Barbie_ was released, I’d become worn down by all the interviews given by Gerwig and her star (and one of the movie’s producers) Margot Robbie, as well as other members of the cast. And that's not to mention the Mattel overlords who’d funded the film, and who professed they were at first shocked by Gerwig’s intentions for the movie, only to end up touting how evolved they were in letting her have her way after all. Before _Barbie_ had even opened, I'd grown weary of hearing how smart this movie about a doll was going to be. (I've been [pro-Barbie](https://time.com/6295515/barbie-feminism/) all my life, so I didn’t need convincing there.) Then I saw it, and my suspicions were confirmed: though I loved Robbie’s performance, and [Ryan Gosling's Ken](https://time.com/6576771/ryan-gosling-oscar-nominations-barbie-statement-gerwig-robbie-ferrera/), as well as the production and costume design, _Barbie_’s relentless “This movie is feminist! Really!” sloganeering wore me down.


But even if Gerwig’s vision didn’t resonate with me, I would concede in a heartbeat that she had used her intelligence and instincts to reach for something seemingly impossible. She took a big swing with _Barbie,_ and whether you like the film or not, you can see her fingerprints all over it. The Academy did grant the film eight nominations in total, not exactly shabby for big commercial blockbuster. And Gerwig and her co-writer and husband, Noah Baumbach, _did_ receive a nomination for Adapted Screenplay—but that makes the Director omission even more glaring. As a filmmaker and a presence, Gerwig has big Theater Kid energy. And because she’s already made several acclaimed movies, she can’t be anyone’s discovery. But it still seems strange that the Academy had the chance to recognize a woman director who's made a much-loved movie that has also broken box-office records, and failed to do so. (In addition to being the highest-grossing movie of 2023, _Barbie_ is the highest-grossing film ever made by a woman.) Critics, moviegoers, and the Academy often want to celebrate different things for different reasons. We often wrongly laud the Academy as being a group of people with good taste, when really it’s a body designed to make Hollywood feel good about itself. In that context, its failure to recognize Gerwig is even weirder.


And what about Cooper, who, like Gerwig, has been working in the industry for years, and who also has a number of Oscar nominations (as actor, producer, and director) to his credit? _Maestro_ has been recognized in seven categories, including Best Picture. Cooper is a producer of the film; he has also been nominated for his performance and for the movie’s screenplay, which he co-wrote with Josh Singer. Although Maestro premiered during the SAG strike, Cooper quickly made up for lost time in promoting the film. He has been forthright and earnest about his approach to bringing the story of Bernstein—and, more specifically, [his marriage to the Chilean-Costa Rican actor Felicia Montealegre](https://time.com/6549262/maestro-open-marriage-ethical-nonmonogamy/), played by [Carey Mulligan](https://time.com/6338908/maestro-true-story-leonard-bernstein-felicia-montealegre/)—to the screen. I happen to love _Maestro._ While others shrink from its bravado, I adore the way Cooper fills the screen with big-feeling vibrations**.** Even so, he’s sensitive to the unorthodox nuances of this relationship: here’s a story about two vibrant individuals who, in the 1950s, were working their way through complex expectations of what a marriage should and could be—as well as making a distinction between spiritual loyalty and sexual fidelity. That seems pretty progressive to me—the opposite of awards bait, actually—and you’d think it would be a plus for all those people who complain about what they see as tired biopic clichés.


![Maestro](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt274ae370022b0b12/698a4362457a52a95dd6843d/Maestro_20220705_07467_R.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp)

Cooper and Mulligan as the couple in their later years Courtesy of Netflix

Even so, in the past few months, I’ve encountered roughly equal numbers of people who love _Maestro_ and people who despise it, with almost nothing in between—and those who hate it are particularly noisy online. I’ve heard people mock Mulligan-as-Felicia’s slow-death-from-cancer scenes. (“Just die, already!”) Some of these takes are gently mischievous, some are just plain bad, and some come from cloudy notions of what we expect—or want—a biopic to be. Because I’m unshakable in my love for _Maestro,_ I find it fascinating to hear why others hate it, and at this point I’ve heard everything: It’s too gay. It’s too straight. It’s too much about the marriage—who cares?—and not enough about [Bernstein’s career](https://time.com/6338605/maestro-leonard-bernstein-time-cover/). It doesn’t respect Bernstein enough. It lets Bernstein get away with too much. There aren’t enough scenes of actual conducting. Cooper, in his prosthetic nose, is too cartoony, too overbearing, just _bad._ Mulligan’s Felicia steals the show from him. 


But no one has accused _Maestro_ of being too _small_, and if you think its grandness is a flaw, there's only Cooper to blame. I think Cooper is a big part of why some moviegoers and critics—and, at least to a degree, the Academy—dislike _Maestro._ A colleague of mine put it this way: The Academy should have just given him something for _A Star Is Born_ to get him out of the way for a while. Now, it’s almost as if they want to curb his impulses, to show him that he’s not as big a deal as he thinks he is. It’s possible they’ve been influenced by the online _Maestro_ haters, who seem to think Cooper is way too thirsty for an Oscar. The campaigning season is a horror show for lots of reasons, not least because people who just really want to make movies are thrust into the position of promoting them—and may even end up overpromoting them. That can naturally affect how we feel—or the Academy feels—about a movie.


Then again, if you don’t speak up for a movie you’ve poured years of your life into, who will? The line between being overambitious and just getting the word out is easily blurred. We’d also be justified in asking, "Who cares about an ambitious white guy?" And it’s true: in a field, like most fields, where white men have had more than their share of opportunity, we need more ambitious filmmakers of all kinds. The movie world has a long history of actor-directors—Orson Welles, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, George Clooney, the list goes on—who have strived to have it all. We need smart, driven people, and they can’t all just be white men. Just ask Ava DuVernay, Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Dee Rees—filmmakers who have made terrific, underrecognized pictures in the past dozen years—what it takes to send a movie out into the world.

But deciding who should be praised for ambition and who should be punished only leads to a restrictive way of looking at art. We can sneer at the idea of a director’s vision, especially if it’s a director we don’t particularly like. But when a movie finally sees the light of day, it’s the director who’s holding the bag; its merits or failures fall on his or her head. We should want filmmakers to think big, even if that means they have further to fall. Because when they hit it right, the rewards are great for us too.


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For anyone in the film industry in a matter where you're from to be recognized by the academy is a dream come true to be nominated changing. So okay for best performance by an actor in a supporting role. Sterling K Brown in American fiction Robert De Niro in killers of the flower Moon Robert Downey jr. And Oppenheimer Ryan Gosling game Barbie And Mark Ruffalo in poor thing. the nominees for cheeseman's in costume design Barbie killers of the flower Moon Napoleon Oppenheimer and poor thing the nominees for achievements in makeup and hairstyling are Golda maestro Oppenheimer poor thing and Society of the snow.

Now this year's nominees for best live action short film. the after invincible Knight of Fortune red white and blue And the wonderful story of Henry sugar. for best animated short film the nominees are letter to a pig 95 census our uniform Hershey Dam and where is over inspired by the music of John and Yoko. And now we have the first of the two word categories honoring writers first for David screenplay. The nominees are American fiction written for the screen by cord Jefferson Barbie written by Greta Gerwig and Noah baumbach Oppenheimer written for the screen by Christopher Nolan poor things screenplay by Tony McNamara and the zone of Interest and for original screenplay the nominees are anatomy of a fall green play Justine's VA and art or a Rari the holdovers.

written by David hemmingsen Maestro written by Bradley Cooper and Josh singer May December screenplay by Sammy Burch Story by Sammy Burch and Alex mechanic and past lives written by Celine song last before I break the nominees for performance by an actress in a supporting role. Emily Blunt and Oppenheimer Danielle Brooks in the color purple America Ferrera and Barbie Jodie Foster and Naya had And divine Joy Randolph in the hold over. nominees for Cheesman in music original song the fire inside from Flamin Hot recess I'm just Ken from Barbie. It never went away from American Symphony. Was jaji a song for my people from killers of the flower Moon.

And what was I made for from Barbie? Next up the nominees for Cheesman to music original score. American fiction Indiana Jones and the dial of Destiny killers of the flower Moon Oppenheimer ask for him and now the nominees for best documentary feature film. Bobby wine the people's president be Eternal memory. four daughters to kill a tiger and 20 days in Mario fall next for best documentary short film the nominees are the ABCs of book Banning The Barber of Little Rock Island in between the last repair shop and 99 + y / 4 best International feature film the nominees are El Capitano, Italy Perfect.

Day is Japan. Society of the snow Spain the Teachers Lounge, Germany and the zone of Interest United Kingdom and for best animated feature film here are the nominees the boy and a heron. Elemental nimona robot dreams And Spider-Man across the spider verse. Here are the nominees for achievement in production design. Barbie killers of the flower Moon Napoleon Oppenheimer and poor thing Next up for achievement in film editing. The nominees are anatomy of a fall the holdovers Killers of the flower Moon Oppenheimer and poor thing and for achievement and sound here are the nominees. the Creator maestro Mission Impossible dead reckoning part 1 Oppenheimer and the zone of Interest next the nominees for chief mint in visual effects.

the Creator Godzilla - 1 Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3 mission impossible dead reckoning part 1 and Napoleon or achievement in cinematography the nominees are El Conde killers of the flower Moon maestro Oppenheimer and poor things performance by an actor in a leading role. Riley Cooper Colman Domingo Paul Giamatti in the hold over Killian Murphy and the timer and Geoffrey Rush in American fiction for performance by an actress in a leading role. Annette Bening in Nyack Lily Gladstone in killers of the flower Moon Sandra Julio in anatomy of a fall Carey Mulligan in maestro And Emma Stone in poor thing.

For achievement in directing. The nominees are Justine clear anatomy of a song Martin Scorsese killers of the flower Moon Christopher Nolan Oppenheimer yorgos lanthimos poor thing And Jonathan Glazer the zone of Interest. And now for our final category, I can't wait. Let's read them together then nominees for best motion picture of the year. American fiction Ben Leclair amigos amigos cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson producers Anatomy of a fall love you, honey, and the video. Barbie David Heyman Margot Robbie Tom ackerley and Robbie Brenner producers the holdovers Mark Johnson producer killers of the flower Moon Dan friedkin Bradley Thomas Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi producers Maestro Bradley Cooper Steven Spielberg Fred burner Amy churning and Kristie macosko Krieger producers Oppenheimer Anna Thomas Charles, Roven and Christopher Nolan producer past lives David hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler producers 4 things add gyne Andrew Lowe yorgos lanthimos and Emma Stone producers and zone of Interest both in producer Congratulations to this year's nominees.

It's been an honor to be with all of you this morning.

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