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.

It’s been a day of digesting the Oscar nominations in a very competitive year.

If only there were eight slots in each acting category! That would make this all so much easier.

And if only the SAG nominations or anything else were an actual sign of what Academy voters were thinking. With these Oscars you can throw out the playbook!

Three actresses I’d have liked to see in the Best Category: Penelope Cruz, Fantasia, Margot Robbie. How could they not have made it? Cruz’s performance in “Ferrari” is like its own opera. She’s amazing. Fantasia is incredibly moving as Celie, singing out her heart in “The Color Purple.”

And then there’s Margot Robbie. There’s no other actress as hard working and consistently good. She made “Barbie” the movie happen, then created the character. She was also outstanding in the second “Suicide Squad” movie. In “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” she gave light to a dark film.

Another big miss: Leonardo DiCaprio in “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Ernest as Leo played him is a befuddled character, torn between loving his family and being loyal to his uncle. I still think this one of Leo’s three best acting jobs ever, just a shade behind “Wolf of Wall Street.” But Academy voters may see him apart from regular actors at this point. He’s sort of a Special Case who has his Oscar, millions of dollars, gorgeous girlfriends, and a life of fantasy.

The other glaring omission, that I can’t explain, is Greta Gerwig for Best Director. She had a singular vision for “Barbie” and executed it like a 5 star chef. “Barbie” is a complete movie from top to bottom. The Directors Guild got that, they included her without fail. So what happened? Justine Triet’s surprise nomination, I think, owes more to the international additions to the Academy. They really embraced “Anatomy of a Fall,” despite France not choosing it as their official selection.

There are some proper choices, too. Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” got a lot of nods, with good reason. “Maestro” isn’t perfect — too much about the love life. But those performances by Cooper and Carey Mulligan are soaring. Like “Barbie,” this is a singular vision and you can feel it. If there were a 7th slot for directing, Cooper would have had it.

Of course, in directing, you always run into this problem. Five slots and at least two marquee names are a given — Scorsese and Nolan. So that limits the field. And Yorgos Lanthimos — he was a given this year because “Poor Things” is an off the wall creation. (I loved it.) That leaves two spots. The one I don’t get is Jonathan Glazer. I found “Zone of Interest” a monotonous dead end. Cooper or Alexander Payne would have been my choices.

Sidebar: congrats to Annette Bening. Her portrayal of Diana Nyad is exceptional. She’s never won an Oscar. Boy, does she deserve it!

Still, all the films that were launched in a timely fashion got something. Some studios should learn a lesson — if you wait until mid November, nothing will happen. We who write about these things sit and scratch our heads when by Halloween the buzz isn’t there for a film we saw in September and liked. How many times did we say “What happened to Origin?” for example. By that point, it’s just too late.