Quote Originally Posted by BeerMug Paladin View Post
I think it might be worthwhile to consider a distinction between art and entertainment in regards to movies. While I don't think there's necessarily always a clear distinction between these two types of movies, I consider it generally true that you can draw a useful distinction for purposes of thinking about movies.

Entertainment movies are ones meant to be engaged with while they're on the screen and generally aren't intended to have any deeper meaning or message in them other than what can be clearly understood from a naive observation of surface-level events.

Art movies are ones meant to be engaged with after the movie ends. Where there is an intended meaning or messages that may not be immediately clear and may ultimately involve things like unreliable narrators or metaphors that may be unclear during an initial viewing. They're meant to be analyzed in some fashion or discussed with others to get a fuller understanding.

I think the goal of superhero movies tends to be much more about the former than that latter. And it seems to me that award shows tend to bias towards the latter variety.
That's very true. Award shows tend to be very prejudice against superhero movies. As everybody else mentions awards prefer more sophisticated movies with the class to get nominated.