Many people had mixed feelings about how āBarbieā was treated at the Golden GlobesĀ 2024. āBarbieā was nominated for nine awards, but only won two awards. The host of the Golden Globes, Jo Koy, made a controversial joke about the movie. The joke was, āOppenheimer is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and āBarbieā is on a plastic doll with big boobies.āĀ
The director of āBarbieā, Greta Gerwig, said on BBC Radio 4 Today, āHeās not wrong.ā Others felt she handled this very well. āI feel it was a good response because she seemed unbothered by the misogynistic joke. She handled the whole situation better than many others would if they were in her situation, ā sophomore Kamora Ramsey, Golden Globes viewer said.
People felt that āBarbieā deserved better at the Golden Globes. āI really liked the āBarbieā movie and I think it deserved more awards because of the comedy in it and the lesson that comes from the movie, ā sophomore Macie Tyler, Golden Globes viewer said.Ā
The movie āBarbieā had many good reviews, from IMDb the average viewer rating is 7.5 out of 10 with 465,588 ratings in total. Rotten Tomatoes also were 87% positive, along with 90 percent of critics who reviewed the movie giving it good reviews. At the Golden Globes when Jo Koy made his joke about āBarbie, ā Ryan Gosling, who played Ken, and Margot Robbie, who played Barbie, both had different reactions to his joke. Gosling didnāt make a face at Koy. He gave him what viewers called a ādeath glareā. Robbie just smiled at Koy. Viewers said she looked like she did not want to smile, but had to because otherwise she would get hate.
Sometimes, hosts from shows hire writers to write jokes and speeches for them to say. āI think that Jo Koy should be at fault for the joke because he should have known that it was really Ā sexist and should have changed the joke,ā sophomore Golden Globes viewer Kruti Jadhav says.
Overall, āBarbieā won two awards out of nine at the Golden Globes.āI feel like āBarbieā deserved more awards and I think the joke was uncalled for,ā Golden Globes viewer sophomore Makenzie Rayfield said.