Parasite, The Oscars, and American Exceptionalism

Olivier S
4 min readFeb 12, 2020

why the film’s best picture win represents an important cultural shift

It only took some ninety years or so of Academy Awards history for a foreign language film to finally win the coveted “Best Picture” prize at the Oscars. But here we are, and as they say, better late than never. Following widespread criticism for giving the award to “Green Book” last year, whilst overlooking…

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