A few days before the 92nd Academy Awards ended with what was possibly the most seismic Best Picture winner of this young century, over at the L.A. Times, Justin Chang wondered whether the Oscars needed a Parasite win more than Bong Joon-ho’s nominee needed the coveted statuette. “A best picture Oscar will not make 'Parasite' a greater movie than it is, and a loss will not diminish its greatness,” for the crucial question was ultimately one for the Academy to answer:Do Oscar voters want to make this kind of history? Does an academy that has made sweeping efforts to diversify its ranks and broaden its international reach over the past few years actually care about achieving the logical outcome of those efforts? Will the membership ever acknowledge that cinema is and always has been a global medium, that no national cinema has a monopoly on greatness...
- 2/14/2020
- MUBI
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