Best Picture Winners That Aged Like Fine Wine

People often complain that the Academy hands out undeserved Oscars, but it also gets things right—especially when Best Picture winners have been treated well by time. Many of these films have become classics that defined the Seventh Art, and their victories have themselves aged well; only the passage of time can truly decide a movie's lasting legacy.

It is harder to say a film not yet a decade old has aged like fine wine, but Bong Joon-ho's Parasite makes that case. Widely regarded as one of the most perfect movies of the last 25 years and already called by many one of the greatest films of all time, it balances genres and tones to deliver a hard-hitting story about class and wealth.

Parasite's Best Picture victory was a watershed moment that led the Academy to look outside the U.S.

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