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With Parasite, the Oscar goes to inclusivity!
Updated On: 11 February, 2020 07:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
By picking up the first non-English film, and the first winner of Best International Feature, as the overall Best Picture, the Academy was making a full speech on acceptance
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Bong Joon-ho's Parasite won four Oscars - Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best International Feature Film and Best Director. Pic/PTI
The Academy doesn't vote for a film. It films its vote, as a moral zeitgeist of sorts, to the world at large. Does it always get it right with the choice of Best Film, though? Can't. That it is radiantly dynamic and self-correcting, year after year, is its notable achievement.
By the Academy, we mean the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — of America, with a much wider international membership, lately — that we know for the Oscars it hands out. And that has no Indian equivalent. Why? Never mind; enjoy your pan masala.
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