Superhero movies may rule at the box office, but when it comes to garnering Academy Award nominations, the genre doesn’t receive as much attention. This year, there was hope that may not be the case and the Academy would allow Deadpool to sneak in as a Best Picture nominee, or at least a Best Screenplay nominee. But, in the end, the Academy didn’t grant the R-rated Ryan Reynolds flick a single nomination.
In the past, we have seen genre-based action movies like Mad Max: Fury Road and Gladiator get nominated for major Oscars – and even win them. Horror movies like The Silence of the Lambs and science fiction films like The Martian have also managed to sneak ...
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