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 ...

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 ...

However, there have been some exceptions to this phenomenon, particularly in the last decade. Across 97 Oscar ceremonies, 16 foreign language titles made outside of America have been nominated for the ...