10 Unbelievable Horror Movie Facts That Are Somehow True
2. Only SIX Horror Movies Have Ever Been Nominated For A Best Picture Oscar
Despite boasting some of the most impressive and iconic movies ever brought to the big-screen, the horror genre hasn't really felt all that much love during awards season over the years.
More often than not, the finest scary pictures of the year are incredibly ignored at these ceremonies, with the Academy Awards in particular very rarely giving these remarkable films the real respect and recognition they deserve.
Horror films have been known to earn nominations for or even win Oscars in technical categories like Best Make-Up, Sound Editing, Visual Effects, and Art Direction (via Collider). But when it comes to the real big prize on the night, the award for Best Picture, do you know how many times properly frightening movies have made it onto the nominee list?
Six times. Just six.
That collection amazingly consists of only The Exorcist (1973), Jaws (1975), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Sixth Sense (1999), Black Swan (2010), and Get Out (2017). And only one of those movies actually won - that being Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs.
Even seeing that written down, it's still tough to believe that incredible movies like Hereditary, A Quiet Place, and many of the ones mentioned on this list didn't earn a Best Picture nod at the Oscars.
Will horror ever find a way to break into that prestigious category on a more regular basis? Or is it destined to be bafflingly shunned by the Academy, much like the superhero genre, forevermore?