Ranking the International Feature Film Winners
Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 10:27AM 
From De Sica to Hamaguchi, the past two years of hosting the podcast The One-Inch Barrier has allowed me to watch all that films that were selected by the Academy for its International Feature Film category - 74 winners and 337 nominees (all but one title). While this category has had its issues over the years, it has also put an international spotlight on non-English language cinema on Hollywood’s biggest night. While the category has always been far from a perfect encapsulation of world cinema, it's a great jumping off point as noted in the series finale. (Cláudio Alves did a beautiful summary of our discussion - video included!).
Here is my personal not-that-definitive ranking of the winners of the category. Things are very fluid especially in the midsection...