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Ever since Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” won best picture in 2020, non-American movies have become competitive across major categories at the Oscars. This year’s nominees, announced this morning, include France’s “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest,” which is in German, in the best picture category. It was the first time two international films have been nominated for best picture, according to the academy. Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” which is in Korean and English, also scored a best picture nomination, making it the most international lineup in academy history.
Why We Wrote This
Hollywood used to act as a kind of chamber of commerce, handing out its golden guy to locally made movies. But great art doesn’t just come from one ZIP code, or one language. This year’s nominees for best picture are the most international in history.
As a result of the increased acclaim for international films, the acting categories also feature more non-English-language performances. Sandra Hüller, who stars in both “Zone of Interest” and “Anatomy of a Fall,” was nominated for best actress for the latter.
And Lily Gladstone is considered a heavy favorite in that category to become the first Native American to win an Oscar for acting. She is one of several characters to speak Osage in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” about the murderous exploitation of that tribe in Oklahoma.
In 2019, the director of the Korean movie “Parasite” jokingly called the Oscars a “very local” competition.
The Academy Awards, which had their inaugural ceremony in 1929, were originally intended as a vehicle to promote American studio pictures. There wasn’t even a category for international movies until 1957. The Oscars were to movies what the World Series is to baseball. Movies from overseas were mainly segregated in the best foreign language category. Only a handful were nominated for the grand prize: best picture. In recent years, there’s been a shift.
“There are more people in the academy who don’t define ‘movie’ as a Hollywood product,” says Michael Schulman, author of “Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold,