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 ...

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 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 ...

They (probably) won’t be nominated for Oscars this year, but they sure as hell deserve to be…. Can we use this thread as a reference for the performances in Foreign Language Films that ought to be ...

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 ...

China has one of the biggest box offices in the world, so it only makes sense that there is also a bombing industry for Chinese language films. While many Chinese language movies come from the ...

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 ...