It’s almost Oscar time. Whatever you think, however you feel about the Academy Awards and awards in general, there’s little arguing with the eighty plus years of history and rich tradition of this still most prestigious and popular of movie honors.
For many years now the most interesting part of the awards for me, and my favorite category has been the “Best Foreign Language Film” division. I look forward to it each year, both for the agony as well as the ecstasy.
It’s also the category I’d most like to see abolished.
Read the rest of Gary’s essay after the jump…