While Sweden, Hungary, Russia and Chile have all previously scored nominations in this
category — with the three European nations all triumphing on more than one occasion, Ziad Doueiri's topical
legal drama «The Insult» is the first Lebanese production ever to make it this far.
Some would say that's the case with «Roman J. Israel, Esq.» Just a year after narrowly losing the
category, Washington returns as a brilliant underdog attorney in this
legal drama.