Parasite won Best Picture at the Oscars. But what was the year's Best Loser?
Photo: Vulture and Shutterstock This story has been updated to reflect the events of the 92nd Annual Academy Awards.
Whatever your opinion of the Academy Awards, if you care about film, you can’t just dismiss them. If nothing else, the Academy’s winners double as a history of film. An imperfect history, sure, but a history nonetheless. Running through the list of Best Picture winners, you’ll see trends wax and wane and at least get a rough sense of what was valued in movies for each year and the progression of trends.
But what if each year produced two winners? Madness, right? But it would have the advantage of offering a fuller picture of what was going on in the world of film at the time. This list attempts to do just that: Pick a second film from the list of Best Picture nominees that would both make for a deserving winner and offer a fuller sense of film history. It’s not an attempt to pick a winner from the year in its entirety. It’s not an attempt to suggest that these films are better than the films that won, even if they sometimes are.
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