![]() ![]() The Academy has long dismissed comedy-indeed, any genre not long-form drama-when it comes award time. Nothing.īut let's face it, if I thought the Oscars were a useful benchmark for measuring a film's worth, I would have never started this blog in the first place. In fact, other than a nomination in the short-lived category of dance direction for Dave Gould's work on A Day At The Races, no Marx Brothers movie received a nomination of any kind-not acting, not writing. Despite making some of the greatest comedies of their era, including two- Duck Soup and A Night At The Opera-that are now preserved in the National Film Registry, the Brothers received no awards, nor were any of their movies were ever nominated for best picture. For proof of the Academy's bias against comedy, look no further than the Marx Brothers. ![]()
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