2022 Oscars: 6 Awards They Got Right (And 6 Awards They Royally Screwed Up)

8. Drive My Car Wins Best International Feature Film

King Richard/The Eyes of Tammy Faye Socars
Bitters End

Beat: Flee, The Hand of God, Lunanna: A Yak in the Classroom and The Worst Person in the World.

In a just world, this masterpiece would've won Best Picture. It was the greatest of the nominees, full stop.

Still, it winning Best International Feature Film will do. Drive My Car is an exquisitely directed, consummately acted and beautifully written modern classic that offers one of most potent and profound character-driven dramas in recent memory, and it makes three hours disappear like nothing.

It was a terrific field and the other four films nominated here deserve a ton of praise too, but in the end this was the best of the nominees (The Worst Person in the World being a close second) and Drive My Car's win was absolutely deserved.

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Film Studies graduate, aspiring screenwriter and all-around nerd who, despite being a pretentious cinephile who loves art-house movies, also loves modern blockbusters and would rather watch superhero movies than classic Hollywood films. Once met Tommy Wiseau.