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I completely agree with Michael Myers. The horror genre has often included some of the best artistic films in history that never got nominated. They often talk about subjects that no one wants to touch. However, time and agian quite a few that deserved to be nominated never were. Films like The Shining (1980), Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Cabin in the Woods (2012), just to name a few. In the entire period from 1929, when the Academy Awards were created (although not the Golden Globes) to today ony five horror movies have ever been nominated for Best Picture: The Exorcist (1973), Jaws (1975), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Sixth Sense (1999), and Black Swan (2009). As Michael Myers mentioned, The Silence of the Lambs (1991) was the only horror film to ever win Best Picture (it also took home four of the other major awards. I think this reality is most unfortunate, even high critical apporval does not mean the film will get nominated because quite a few horror films had this, but were still not nominated.
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