On the heels of this year's Academy Awards show and in anticipation of WWMPC’s release of The Road to Mother this Spring, we look back and think the potential history that would have been. Never has a film won both Best Foreign Language Film and Best Picture at the same time. We witnessed Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma taking home the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and being nominated for Best Picture. In a lineup which had no clear front-runner, the surprise winner, Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, took home the gold, in what could have been a monumental moment in Academy Award history. We would have to go back six years at the 85th Academy Awards when Michael Haneke’s Amour, from Austria, was nominated for both categories, winning Best Foreign Language Film, and twelve years before that with Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon receiving the same accolades. In the history of the Academy Awards, only eleven films have accomplished the feat of being nominated for both categories. Roma came very close in what many thought would be the first film to do so. Will we see history made soon? With the success of Roma, American audiences, who have not given foreign language films a chance, may finally give in to reading subtitles. The quality of this past year’s foreign films like Roma and Cold War have hopefully opened the eyes of American audiences on true art and cinematic wonders. We could only hope because film is still an art form, and many of these foreign films are masterpieces. Be sure to check out other Award-Winning Foreign Language Films like The Nightingale and Applause at indiemoviestore.com.
