To run async code, you use 'await' in python. That right there tells you that you have to wait for it to finish. You want to receive the result. The view will wait for a result before returning the http response.

Celery and all task queues are fire-and-forget. You tell it to do something for which you don't want the result, so you can continue executing your code right away. The task queue can even take an hour to process, for example. Or you can schedule it to run later.