International Oscar Showdown 2017: Moonlight vs The Salesman

Tim Kimber
7 min readApr 8, 2020
The 89th Academy Awards winners for Best Picture and Best International Feature Film were Moonlight and The Salesman
The 89th Academy Awards winners for Best Picture and Best International Feature Film were Moonlight and The Salesman

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

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Tim Kimber

Writer of stories, movie reviews, and sundry other whims. Also a sub-editor, so you are welcome to shout at me about typos.