Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager called out the Golden Globes for snubbing “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu –– despite the film itself and its main actresses getting several nominations.
“I want to preface our next topic by saying, we’re angry and it’s on our ‘jangly list,’” Kotb began on Monday’s episode of “Today with Hoda and Jenna.”
After pointing out that they were “very happy for many” of the nominations, they said the award show missed “one huge gap.”
“The bad news that we’re very disappointed about is Jon Chu who’s the director of ‘Wicked’ [didn’t get nominated],” Bush Hager, 43, said.
Kotb, 60, went on to recognize the “unbelievable” movie as a “masterpiece” while Bush Hager acknowledged “the amount of work he had to do to make that so incredible.”
Kotb went on to apologize to Chu for the snub and admitted they did “not know what happened there.”
“In fact, if we could call somebody at the Golden Globes –– we can’t, because we don’t know anybody ––we would be calling them right now, because what?!” Bush Hager said.
“Wicked” lead Cynthia Erivo — who plays Elphaba — scored a nomination for best female actor in a comedy or musical film while Ariana Grande — who portrayed Glinda — was nominated for best supporting female actor.
During the segment, Bush Hager also pointed out that critics praised Chu for “going back to the olden times of Hollywood” and doing “everything he had to do to make it as colorful and as beautiful” as it was.
“Because that was such a tricky movie to pull off because to make it something that was so incredible, it took the best director,” Kotb explained.
“I’m surprised,” Kotb concluded. “He’s going to get an Oscar nomination for sure … I mean, that’s a given.”
Despite Chu not scoring a personal nomination, he still showed his support for the film, Erivo and Grande by reposting the Golden Globes’ announcements on X.
In addition to Erivo and Grande’s nominations, the film was also recognized in the categories for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical and Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.
The directors who were nominated for Best Director – Motion Picture included Jacques Audiard for “Emilia Pérez,” Sean Baker for “Anora,” Brady Corbet for “The Brutalist,” Edward Berger for “Conclave,” Coralie Fargeat for “The Substance” and Payal Kapadia for “All We Imagine as Light.
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