And the winner is.....

As someone who writes what might be described as 'thoughtful comedy', it is a continual annoyance to me how little status comedy has in literature, film and art in general. It seems to me that those genres which evoke a visceral response (comedy, horror, weepies) have a correspondingly low critical status as if those responses were somehow easy to provoke. They are not. An original story/film that makes you cry, laugh or really scares the s**t out of you, is actually really hard to create.
I don't expect any of these genres to be represented amongst the Oscar winners.