Making sense of the historic win of ‘Parasite’ at the Oscars. The Hollywood Reporter's awards columnist dissects Sunday's results.
was awarded the best picture Oscar, and one month after only a single person of color was among the 20 people nominated for an acting Oscar and no female filmmakers were among the five finalists for the best director Oscar — the best picture Oscar was awarded to a film not in the English language for the first time in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards.
What the aforementioned information should remind you of is that the Academy is not a monolith. It is an organization comprised of 8,469 individuals. Most of them are still older white men. An increasing number are not. Many of them are brilliant. Quite a few are not. Sometimes their choices surprise and delight us. And other times they do not.
At the end of Sunday's ceremony, I couldn't help but feel that this was one of those times that the Academy — and really all of us in Hollywood — should feel good about it. Indeed, in 1949, when the British filmbecause the first non-American best picture Oscar winner, gasps and boos were audible in the room. But in 2020, when the Korean filmbecame the first non-English-language best picture Oscar winner, Hollywood's elite stood on their feet and enthusiastically applauded.
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