Sean Rameswaram

It sounds so common sense that, you know, you wonder why the Oscars don't just do that. Why don't they do that?

I wonder, is anyone out there making the case that we just don't even need this category anymore? Because as you're pointing out here, you've got this sort of international bleed into the best picture category. Do we still need to have a whole category for movies that, you know, aren't... English language.

I wonder, is anyone out there making the case that we just don't even need this category anymore? Because as you're pointing out here, you've got this sort of international bleed into the best picture category. Do we still need to have a whole category for movies that, you know, aren't... English language.

I wonder, is anyone out there making the case that we just don't even need this category anymore? Because as you're pointing out here, you've got this sort of international bleed into the best picture category. Do we still need to have a whole category for movies that, you know, aren't... English language.

Nate Jones, Best Supporting Writer at Vulture.com. Best Producer goes to Abhishek Artsy. Best Deputy, Jolie Myers. Best Senior Researcher, Laura Bullard. And Best Mixing is going to be shared by Andrea Christensdottir and Patrick Boyd. Oh, and the Oscar for Best Ensemble. Why doesn't that Oscar exist?

Nate Jones, Best Supporting Writer at Vulture.com. Best Producer goes to Abhishek Artsy. Best Deputy, Jolie Myers. Best Senior Researcher, Laura Bullard. And Best Mixing is going to be shared by Andrea Christensdottir and Patrick Boyd. Oh, and the Oscar for Best Ensemble. Why doesn't that Oscar exist?

Nate Jones, Best Supporting Writer at Vulture.com. Best Producer goes to Abhishek Artsy. Best Deputy, Jolie Myers. Best Senior Researcher, Laura Bullard. And Best Mixing is going to be shared by Andrea Christensdottir and Patrick Boyd. Oh, and the Oscar for Best Ensemble. Why doesn't that Oscar exist?

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Hadi Mawagdi, Devin Schwartz, Gabrielle Burbay, Victoria Chamberlain, Travis Larchuk, Miles Bryan, Amanda Llewellyn, Amina Alsadi, Miranda Kirshen, And best host goes to La La Land. No, sorry, sorry. It's Noel King. This is Noel King, the best host. Today Explained is distributed by WNYC. The show is a part of Vox, which, FYI, is an independent news source.

Hadi Mawagdi, Devin Schwartz, Gabrielle Burbay, Victoria Chamberlain, Travis Larchuk, Miles Bryan, Amanda Llewellyn, Amina Alsadi, Miranda Kirshen, And best host goes to La La Land. No, sorry, sorry. It's Noel King. This is Noel King, the best host. Today Explained is distributed by WNYC. The show is a part of Vox, which, FYI, is an independent news source.

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That means we don't worry about serving the interests of the powerful. We just worry about serving you. And we rely on you today. to help fund our work. If you want to support us, you can go to vox.com slash members and sign up today. Thank you a million and thank you to the Academy.

First, there was the one over DC. Shocking. Tragic. The president blamed DEI. Yikes. But then they kept coming. There was that medevac flight that crashed in the middle of Philadelphia. There was a deadly crash on an ice floe in Alaska. There was the Delta flight that landed upside down at Pearson in Toronto.

First, there was the one over DC. Shocking. Tragic. The president blamed DEI. Yikes. But then they kept coming. There was that medevac flight that crashed in the middle of Philadelphia. There was a deadly crash on an ice floe in Alaska. There was the Delta flight that landed upside down at Pearson in Toronto.

First, there was the one over DC. Shocking. Tragic. The president blamed DEI. Yikes. But then they kept coming. There was that medevac flight that crashed in the middle of Philadelphia. There was a deadly crash on an ice floe in Alaska. There was the Delta flight that landed upside down at Pearson in Toronto.

And then on Tuesday, while we were in a meeting talking about doing this very show, we heard a Southwest flight almost hit a private jet at Midway in Chicago. That same day, the same thing more or less happened back at DCA, the same airport that where that helicopter crashed into a commercial flight, killing 67 people back in January.

And then on Tuesday, while we were in a meeting talking about doing this very show, we heard a Southwest flight almost hit a private jet at Midway in Chicago. That same day, the same thing more or less happened back at DCA, the same airport that where that helicopter crashed into a commercial flight, killing 67 people back in January.

And then on Tuesday, while we were in a meeting talking about doing this very show, we heard a Southwest flight almost hit a private jet at Midway in Chicago. That same day, the same thing more or less happened back at DCA, the same airport that where that helicopter crashed into a commercial flight, killing 67 people back in January.

On Today Explained, we're asking the question we've all been asking.