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Listening to Bill Maher word vomit hypocrisies about films nominated for Oscars feels akin to Tucker Carlson discussing white replacement theory. 
It's like mmm'kay... These movies made you sad, so you're going to call them "debbie downers", carelessly spoil them for potential viewers, while being a complete and utter negative nancy, disregarding any hope, uplifting catharsis, or genuine connection the films offered?
Please consider that Hollywood didn't even have hand in every best pic nominee. What about other categories and their nominees that aren't centered around real life tragedy, historical events, etc? Maybe they don't fit into your petulant man-baby rant, but they are nominated.
Movies like Emma and Love and Monsters are a ton of dumb fun, but movies like Sound of Metal and Promising Young Woman, for example, are like free therapy. Good gods, have a little empathy, my dude!
And did I seriously just spy images from Grapes of Wrath and Schindler's List employed as examples of "entertaining" (totally not depressing) Oscar nominated fare???
If you'd rather watch films that don't leave a cathartic impression on you, because pandemic vibery is overwhelming you emotionally enough, why are you even looking to the Academy Awards for recs? Just go watch Barb and Star, duh! Then again, you'd probably hate that too. 
Tbh, Nomadland is not that depressing and it helped me work through some real shit. As much fun as I had with Godzilla vs. Kong, it doesn't offer me this effect. I can, however, love both of these films and appreciate the work behind them, indie or Hollywood origins aside. 
Anyway, no one is ever going to read this far into my thread so, I'm gonna go get some dinner. Oh, btw, apparently pasta qualifies as a salad? Hmm... I can work with this logic. 
One more--how are films like Do The Right Thing or 12 Years a Slave NOT depicting our country historically for the tragedy it is? What are these examples? How are these types of films NOT reminiscent of films we see today? Like, idk... Judas and the Black Messiah? Even Chicago 7?
I get criticizing certain concepts/individuals/spending within the spectrum of "Hollywood", but why attack the efforts of indie productions and in turn defend the machine you're arguing against (because guess where those fast food movies you apparently want more of come from)?
To be continued? I will probably be ranting about this until my pathetic ass expires from this life. Anyway, I wanna conclude this thread officially with a recommendation: Collective, which happens to be a doc nominee, is on Hulu. It's a bit on the heavy side, but so worth it! 
