Academy Award for Best Picture

Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece enjoyed an organic awards-season rise, becoming the first foreign-language film to score Hollywood’s top prize.
A particularly grueling Oscar season ends by handing the top prize to a regressive racial cliché.
The film was plagued with controversy for sanitizing racism in the Jim Crow era.
In the Best Picture race, things aren't looking good for two of the year's most popular movies.