Is Oscars' greatest prize, its Best Picture award becoming more worldly? In 2020, the South Korean black comedy thriller film,
Parásitos (2019) led the Oscars with a stunning 4 awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Film. In doing so, it became the 1st non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2022, the Japanese road movie,
Drive My Car (2021) seems to be steering a similar course by earning 4 Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best International Film. The Danish animated docudrama,
Flee: Huyendo De Casa (2021) made its own Oscars history in 2022. It became the 1st film to be nominated in the Best International Film, Best Documentary Feature and Best Animated Feature categories simultaneously.
As of February 8th, 2022, 94 years of Oscar Best Picture nominations have yielded 571 Anglo-based produced or co-produced nominees, a stunning 98.3%. For purely non-Anglo productions, that averages out to be about 1 nomination every 10 years. While there is still work to be done, the Academy's recent strides to make filmdom's greatest prize a more worldly award have not gone unnoticed. This poll is dedicated to the 10 purely non-Anglo-based productions or 1.7% that bucked the odds to secure an Oscar Best Picture nomination.
Which of these Oscar-nominated Best Picture movies with a rare non-Anglo production* origin is your favorite? *All the main production companies must be from a country not descended from the British Isles.
Anglosphere Countries: Europe (British Isles: U.K., Ireland, Scotland, etc.), Americas (U.S.A., Canada, Bahamas, Barbados. Belize, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, etc), Australasia (Australia, New Zealand) and Africa (South Africa, etc).
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