Oscar

Winners

Oscar Winners

And the Oscar for Best Picture goes to...

Wow.  How positively THRILLING!!!

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Just like with the twists and turns of Parasite itself, of course its win came as a surprise.

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It is such a watershed moment for such a unique, quirky genre piece to become the FIRST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FILM EVER to win Best Picture!!!  And this was just the movie in just the moment to do so - EVERYONE likes it, and almost everyone loves it - how joyous & communal to recognize this film together.

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I'm kicking myself for not being bold enough to predict it.  I knew it had the groundswell passion boiling over for it, I just didn't think that 1917 was divisive enough to lose a preferential ballot after the momentum it built.  It's a movie scientifically constructed to garner deserved gold statues, all the way on down the list.

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But that's just it - that's based on old-guard assumptions that are changing with the times & with the new wave of diverse members.  Gold Derby experts have been wrong on Best Picture now 5 years in a row - we can't rest on stale assumptions and tea leaves.  We have to listen to where the collective passion really is, and this year that was clearly with Parasite.

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And I'm delighted to have watch this momentous occasion come to be.  Three cheers for South Korea!