Reading about Minari being nominated for a Golden Globe in the foreign language category and not best film. The movie is about an immigrant family in America. The catch is that they are Korean, and over 51% of the film's dialogue is in Korean, the criteria for the category.

In 2006, Letters from Iwo Jima won in this category, a film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. It was also nominated for an Oscar for best picture because the Academy marks the distinction as "international film" and not "foreign language."

Iwo Jima lost the Oscar to The Departed, somewhat ironic given that movie is an adaptation of a Korean film, Infernal Affairs.

Both "international" and "foreign language" are trying to do similar things, bring attention to non-US films. But the industry is changing and these awards need to change with it. Yes, Minari fits the language criteria, but it is a fundamentally American film.

The Oscars allow for a film to be in both Best Picture and Best International, and last year Parasite took down both. Plenty of films take place in Europe in settings where they would probably be speaking a non-English language, but don't do so under the conceit of the movie.

Just looking at last year, Jojo Rabbit is a German story told in English. Because of that inauthentic language conceit, it got nominated for the Best Picture Golden Globe and Parasite didn't.