Ever gracious, Hillary Clinton has posted a nice consolation note to Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie over their not being nominated for Oscars.

Clinton knows what it’s like to lose an election but be vindicated in the end. Gerwig and Robbie are wildly rich because of “Barbie” and their movie will last forever. That does take the sting of out of yesterday.

I still feel that the international voting bloc of the Academy had more to do with the nominations than outright sexism. Gerwig has been nominated for Best Director before, for “Ladybird.” She is loved and respected. Robbie, on the other hand, is taken for granted. She deserves a special award for all her hard work.

Netflix is going all out for Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro.”

They’re taking over David Geffen Hall — aka Avery Fisher Hall — on February 14th.

The invite is to see members of the New York Philharmonic and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin play selections from the “Maestro” soundtrack. This will be followed by an onstage Q&A.

They don’t say this, but my guess is Bradley Cooper will step to the podium even briefly to conduct that orchestra. After all, he spent six years training for this moment.

This sensational idea takes a page from the “Oppenheimer” playbook. I just saw the movie played along with a live orchestra of music from composer Ludwig Goransson.

But this a notch up even from that exciting night. Leonard Bernstein’s life was spent in Geffen Hall — then known as Philharmonic Hall. I hope Geffen himself puts in an appearance. This is not to be missed!

For everyone who’s unhappy that Greta Gerwig didn’t get an Oscar nomination today, I have a good theory for what happened.

Gerwig also didn’t get  a BAFTA nomination. But guess who did? Justine Triet, the French director of “Anatomy of a Fall,” who received a surprise Oscar nomination today. BAFTA — repping lots of non American voters — has quietly become a bellwether.

Triet’s BAFTA nom should have been a good predictor for the Oscars. There is now a huge foreign membership for the Academy Awards. And they are voting in foreign films for Best Picture and Director nominations.

How else to explain the big changes in the last few years? “Parasite” won, then “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” No one you know voted for the latter film. No one you know even liked it. But outside the US, I’ll bet those Academy members would have a different story. “EEAAO” was a ‘foreign film.’

This year, three of the nine Best Picture nominees are technically “foreign films” — “Past Lives,” “Anatomy,” and “Zone of Interest.” They are somewhat in English, but about Americans. This is extremely unusual, but it’s been a trend coming for a long time.

Greta lost her spot to Justin Triet. We knew three of the five Best Directors slots were already locked up with Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, and Yorgos Lanthimos (who morphed from being a Greek filmmaker to an American/British one 9 years ago).

That left two spots, and they each went to “foreign films” — Triet for “Anatomy” and Jonathan Glazer for “Zone of Interest” (which I think is ridiculous). Those two cut out Gerwig and probably Alexander Payne. Those two– Triet and Glazer — overlap with the Oscars.

The Academy is changing, kids. You better change with it!

Ryan Gosling is a happy Oscar nominee for “Barbie,” playing Ken.

Gosling may yet perform on the Oscars show since “I’m Just Ken” was nominated for Best Song.

But Ryan is disappointed that director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie weren’t nominated. It’s a head scratcher, for sure.