When “Parasite” won best picture at last year’s Oscars, it didn’t just feel like a breakthrough moment for the movie business, it was a breakthrough moment. As the first foreign language film to win best picture, its victory broke down barriers at a time when the future looked deeply uncertain.
But no one knew exactly what the following year would have in store for the industry and the world. And now here we are — a little more than a year later — with a fresh crop of best picture contenders.