Oscars 2025: Global, political cinema in the top race

Looking at the strings tying together this year's frontrunners in competition

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IT WOULDN'T BE an exaggeration, by any means, to say that the year 2020 changed the world (for better or for worse). But other than Covid-19, something else happened too that shifted our perspectives culturally.

At the 92nd Academy Awards (or Oscars, as they are commonly known), South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho's film Parasite became the first non-English language film to win the award for Best Picture and it was the first time that Asian writers won the Best Original Screenplay, while the film also bagged the awards for Best Director and Best International Feature Film.