What genres are combined in Robert Altman’s Gosford Park?

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Film director Robert Altman stands with arms crossed in a yellow jacket and white cap among crew and equipment on the set of Thieves Like Us. — Robert Altman Robert Altman.

Robert Altman’s 2001 film Gosford Park is a hybrid work that combines the genres of murder mystery and comedy of manners. Set on an English country estate in the early 1930s, the film earned Altman an Academy Award nomination for best director.1