Joey Magidson
A very Happy Monday to everyone, as it’s time to get on with another Oscar category ranking! Continuing a tradition I’ve been keen on for years, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners for your reading pleasure. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 recipients of that prize. Sometimes, our newest winner will appear. Other times, they’ll be relegated to the Honorable Mention category. Who knows, maybe one or two won’t even make the cut? It’s a list series that I’ll do each and every single year, in the weeks after the ceremony concludes. So, while this is a fun way to think about the Oscars in the aftermath of the latest telecast, it’s also a beginning for another column here on the site. Of course, definitely show us your own lists as well, in the comments section below. We’re definitely keen to know what you think!
Up on the podium for me this week is the Best International Feature category, which is fitting since the Cannes Film Festival is currently going on. There, we often see their top titles end up winners here. Once called Best Foreign Language Film, the now more appropriately named field has generated, especially in recent years, some all-time great winners, many coming from Cannes, too. Movies like Another Round (fairly recently, four Oscars ago), Parasite, and A Separation immediately took their place in the upper tier of victors, as you can see below. They make up an incredible top seven with the likes of 8½, Cinema Paradiso (my personal favorite) Life is Beautiful, and Rashoman. Throw in All About My Mother, Fanny and Alexander, and The Lives of Others, and you have quite the top ten. When Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon comes in at number eleven, you know you’ve got good stuff ahead of it. To see the full ranking, including where a recent winner in Drive My Car parks, alongside titles like All Quiet on the Western Front, The Zone of Interest, last year’s winner I’m Still Here, as well as our newest in Sentimental Value, read on below. There’s definitely been some movement, too…
Here are what I consider to be the 25 best winners of the Best International Feature Oscar, to date:
25. Ida
24. Babette’s Feast
23. Nights of Cabiria
22. Son of Saul
21. La strada
20. Black Orpheus
19. Amour
18. The Barbarian Invasions
17. Roma
16. The Virgin Spring
15. The Bicycle Thief
14. Day for Night
13. The Sea Inside
12. All About My Mother
11. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
10. The Lives of Others
9. Another Round
8. Fanny and Alexander
7. A Separation
6. Rashoman
5. Sentimental Value
4. Life is Beautiful
3. 8½
2. Parasite
1. Cinema Paradiso
Honorable Mentions: All Quiet on the Western Front, Pelle the Conqueror, The Secret in Their Eyes, Tsotsi, Z, and The Zone of Interest
Stay tuned for another category early next week!
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