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 ...

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 ...

Throughout the history of the Academy Awards, there really haven’t been that many genuine foreign films nominated for the top prize: Best Picture. The term “foreign film” will be used interchangeably ...

Wrath of Man, Ambulance, and Speak No Evil are all among the very best American remakes of international movies released ...

For decades, the foreign film was known to come with a catch. It would get all the acclaim and praise from critics, but mainstream audiences would rarely pay it any attention. However, things changed ...

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 ...