During his 2020 Academy Award acceptance speech for Best Picture, “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho said, “Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many ...

The history of the Academy Awards is a complicated one. For every groundbreaking and unexpected Oscar nomination, there are groan-inducing ways this awards show keeps coming up short. Just look at the ...

The Oscars' recent support of foreign-language cinema marks one of the most rapid taste turnarounds for the awards body in recent history. By the numbers: Before "Parasite" broke the foreign-language ...

At the same time as we have a President preaching “America First,” that most American of cultural institutions, the Oscars, is going international at a dramatically quickening pace. It’s finally ...

The response to English-language remakes of foreign-language films is usually something along the lines of, "Why?" If there is already a great film that exists, why not just leave it as is? Reading ...

Shockingly, it took until the final year of this seminal decade for another foreign language film to score a best picture Oscar nomination. The feature accomplishing this feat was "Z," a Costa-Gavras ...