More than ever before, it is time for the Academy to re-evaluate age-old regulations. Oscars Oscars2020
When director Alfonso Cuarón accepted the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2019 for Roma — the first Mexican film to win this award — he said in his speech, “I grew up watching foreign-language movies and learning so much from them and being inspired, like Citizen Kane, Jaws, Rashomon, The Godfather, Breathless.
It was a cold reminder that whatever is deemed “foreign” is outside Hollywood’s centre, unable to play with the rest. It’s another layer to the #OscarsSoWhite movement that began several years ago in calling out the lack of diversity among nominees. The Academy responded in several ways, including changing the name of “Best Foreign-Language Film” to “Best International Feature Film.”
The film’s director, Genevieve Nnaji, tweeted regarding the news in November, “This movie represents the way we speak as Nigerians. This includes English which acts as a bridge between the 500+ languages spoken in our country; thereby making us #OneNigeria. … We did not choose who colonized us. As ever, this film and many like it, is proudly Nigerian.”
The Academy may not have intended to do so, but it certainly provided a kind of answer: Since the award category’s introduction in the 1950s, 83 per cent of the time it has gone to a European country, according to Vulture, and only three films submitted by African countries have ever won.
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