International Oscar Showdown 2015: Birdman vs Ida

The 87th Academy Awards winners for Best Picture and Best International Feature Film were Birdman and Ida

Bong Joon Ho’s movie Parasite made history at the 2020 Academy Awards, becoming the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture.

In this series, in reverse chronological order, I compare previous years’ Best Picture and Best International Feature to see how many other foreign-language films ought to have been given the top gong.