Oscars: Does a film’s genre affect its chances of winning?

With the 92nd Academy Awards on Feb. 9, 2020, we look at how popular film genres have changed over generations.
What’s a genre? The word is French and means type or category. There is no scientific method of assigning a film to genres, which began as a way filmmakers could easily cast and market their movies.
Genre refers to recurring, repeating and recognizable patterns including subject matter, characters or settings.
In the silent film era, many movies began to fall into categories such