Whoever gets the Best Picture Oscar, international films are winning
Hollywood’s growing love of foreign films says a lot about the insular industry
“The Oscars are not an international film festival. They’re very local,” Bong Joon-ho, the director of “Parasite”, a South Korean film, declared in 2019. “Parasite” went on to win four Oscars, including Best Picture, in 2020. It was the first time a foreign-language film took Hollywood’s top prize, breaking what Mr Bong called the “one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles”.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Zones of interest”
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