A perfect day for bananafish

“The truth is that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has always been loth to honour genre fare. It took until the 1990s for a western to win the Oscar for best picture (barring 1931’s Cimmaron), and neither Dances with Wolves (1990) nor Unforgiven (1992) slipped all that comfortably into the classic John Ford/Howard Hawks mould. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy triumphed largely in the technical categories until Return of the King took the best picture Oscar in 2004.”