And it didn’t earn a best picture nomination either, a shocking outcome for a movie that DreamWorks campaigned for relentlessly. Movies are marginalized, excluded from the category everyone cares most about — best picture — and shunted aside to the kids table. I’m thinking about this in a year in which Bong Joon Ho’s masterpiece, “Parasite,” could become the first foreign-language film to win the Academy Award for best picture. And it probably would win if there wasn’t a separate Oscar category for foreign-language movies, the newly rechristened “international feature film,” that “Parasite” will almost assuredly take. The popular film Oscar proved so unpopular that the idea was soon shelved.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 27, 2020 13:30 UTC