After Parasite’s win, the Oscars can no longer be written off.
Oscar-y. But it’s time to throw away our ideas of what an “Oscar movie” is. What’s remarkable about’s victory isn’t only that a cast and crew of Koreans stood on stage at evening’s end, giving the hardworking translator Sharon Choi the night of her life. It’s that the Academy had a choice between a big, square war epic and a thoroughly contemporary movie speaking directly to the inequalities of our time—and they let the right one in.
s victory three years ago presaged a new era in the awards, an era of artistically ambitious, diverse, of-the-moment movies finally going rewarded in a way we’d spent our whole lives assuming the Academy would never do. The triumph ofmakes it official: That new era has arrived. The awards still have a long way to go on issues of representation.
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