Nearly half of the total nominated films at the Academy Awards are international productions. Those numbers stand out, even in a year when the awards feel like a race between two distinctly American ...

At the same time as we have a President preaching “America First,” that most American of cultural institutions, the Oscars, is going international at a dramatically quickening pace. It’s finally ...

The Oscars has become friendlier to non-English language movies. And the movies seem aware of their American audiences.

Foreign films used to be almost an Oscars afterthought, but the directors of the five movies nominated for the best ...