Over the past few years, the Oscars have taken a decidedly international turn. This year, of the 10 films nominated for an Academy Award for best picture, three of them – Anatomy of a Fall, Past Lives and The Zone of Interest – are non-English language films. In the first two decades of the Academy Awards, only three foreign films – all European – earned Oscar nominations: the 1938 French film La Grande Illusion, which was nominated for best picture, or outstanding production, as it was then known; the 1944 Swiss film Marie Louise, which was the first foreign film to win an Academy Award, for …