It is noticeable that no Superhero movie got any Oscar a.k.a Academy Awards. Yeah, they got some but I am talking about "Best Picture" award for any superhero movie. It is not like superhero and horror are modern genre but these types of movies are being developed since 1940s. There is only one horror movie in history of oscar which got "Best Picture" award i.e "The Silence Of The Lambs" in 1991. The year I didn't even came in existence.
Horror movies nominated for "Best Picture" category for many times. Movies like:
The Exorcist (1973)
The Jaws (1975)
Black Swan (2010)
Get out (2017)
These movies were the best but unfortunately they never won.
Now if we talk about comic or superhero movies, they never won "Best Picture" till date. Although they got nominee for many other categories but not in "Best Picture". The only superhero movie which got many Oscars is "Black Panther". Even this movie is nominated for "Best Picture" too. This was the one and only Superhero movie which nominated for"Best Picture". But "Green Book" won that award. Other than 'Best Picture', Black Panther won many Oscars like, Best Original Score etc. The very next year JOKER 2019 won the same award too.
I am not talking about other categories but the main categories like:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
which only matter to us. Bitter truth is that audience don't concern about who won the "Best Adapted Screen Play" or "Best Film Editing" award. Normal audience don't even bother to think about these types of award. They only concern about the 4 main categories which I mentioned earlier.
Why still no superhero movie even qualify for the "Best Picture"? From the last two decades, great superhero and horror movies are being produced. For example:
Conjuring
Paranormal Activities
Get Out
Us
These movies are entirety different from other traditional horror movies in a great way. They got nominee too. But the 7000 people around the world don't think that these movies are good enough. Yeah, only 7000 people.
Actually The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have these 7000 registered people around the world who vote the movies. They are the masters in their own field. And as they are from around the world so there is no chance of biasness. As we know that most of the superhero movie audience is youngsters . But shockingly the average age of these 7000 people is "52". Yes! you heard it right.. 52 **cking years is the average age of these 7000 people. These elderly people decide which picture will get the Oscar.
As I said mostly youngsters watch these types of movies. Actually i didn't even know about "Green Book" and "Moon Light" until they got Oscar.
Criticize something is very easy. Some people think Superhero Movies are not the realistic, they have tight schedule, they rush work, creativity and originalness is less, etc... And somehow they are right too. Dozens of excuses can be given. But the question in the last is who won ? (In main categories). For example for real in our school we only know about the students who got the first three positions. And still we can remember them. Do you ever remembered who was the one getting 100% attendance ? Who performed well in school tablo? E.t.c.
Again one thing which is noticeable too, is that neither Avengers Infinity War nor the Avengers Endgame won the "Best Visual Effect". Because no youngster voted for it. The voters are of my grandfather's age. There is a common phrase in Hollywood:
"Superhero movies are generally considered to be money makers, Not award winners".
But with the passage of time, trend is changing. More reasonable movies are being produced in this genre. It is not about being nominee always, but there should be some good results.
Oscar has some controversies too. Like, people say Oscar always go to the white people. And they only give Oscar to genre of historical epics, biographical dramas, romantic dramedies and family melodrama. Even a hashtag is being popular these years, i.e #OscarSoWhite. And this thing is true. Mostly oscar winners are white people. One thing i noticed that mostly oscar winner movies are the ones who release in less than three months before the Academy Awards.
Who are responsible for doing this ? Ofcours Academy Awards, the people who decide nominee and the people who vote too.
Well, I am not saying that only Fantasy, Horror and Superhero movies are good. But there are some of them. Avengers Endgame was the highest grossing movie. But history will be remembered that the movie who collected the biggest amount got no Oscar.
Avatar got 3 awards, Jurassic Park 4, and Titanic got record breaking 11 awards. On the other han movie like Endgame didn't grab even a single. Believe me money matters more than the award.
What do you think ? Is Academy biased with their awards ? Is elderly people of age 52 deciding the prestige of movie right ?