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The recent triumph of the South Korean film “Parasite” — which won the award for Best Picture at the recent Academy Awards — was an unprecedented event. It shattered a glass ceiling that even the formidable Italian film industry, in its golden age of director Federico Fellini and actress Sophia Loren, had been unable to do. 

The Italian film industry has had an unprecedented 11 wins and three honorary awards for Best Foreign Language Film. “Parasite” took that award (recently renamed Best