LOS ANGELES: Heartwarming movie "CODA," about a deaf family with a hearing daughter, won the prestigious best picture prize at the Oscars on Sunday, the first time a streaming service took home the film industry's biggest prize.
"CODA" was released by Apple TV+, which beat Netflix Inc's contender "The Power of the Dog" and other entries from traditional Hollywood studios.
"I really want to thank the academy for recognizing a movie of love and family at this difficult time that we need today," producer Patrick Wachsberger said in front of the film's cast stood on stage.
Hollywood's most prestigious awards ceremony returned to all-out glitz at the Dolby Theatre after pandemic restrictions limited the event last year.
The upbeat atmosphere was disrupted when best actor winner Will Smith slapped presenter Chris Rock onstage over a joke about the actor's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Rock referenced the 1997 movie "G.I. Jane," in which actress Demi Moore shaved her head.
Smith slapped Rock in what at first appeared to be a scripted joke. But the theater turned somber moments later when Smith, back in his seat, shouted back, "Keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth." The comment was silenced during the live US broadcast on Walt Disney Co'sABC .
Smith later apologized to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and to his fellow nominees as he tearfully accepted the Oscar for best actor for playing the father of Venus and Serena Williams in "King Richard."
Jessica Chastain landed the best actress award for playing TV evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye."
In other awards, Jane Campion became just the third woman in the 94-year history of the Oscars to win best director, for her dark Western "Power of the Dog."
Troy Kotsur made history as the first deaf man to win an Oscar, earning best supporting actor for his role in "CODA." Kotsur played Frank Rossi, the father of a teenager who struggles to help her family's fishing business while pursuing her own aspirations in music.
"This is amazing to be here on this journey. I cannot believe I am here," Kotsur said in a heartfelt speech delivered in sign language as he accepted the supporting actor honor.
Supporting actress went to Ariana DeBose for playing the spirited Anita, who sings "America" in Steven Spielberg's remake of "West Side Story."
ALL WINNERS AND NOMINEES
Best picture
- Winner: Coda
- The Power of the Dog
- West Side Story
- Belfast
- Dune
- Licorice Pizza
- King Richard
- Don't Look Up
- Drive My Car
- Nightmare Alley
Best actress
- Winner: Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Faye
- Olivia Colman - The Lost Daughter
- Nicole Kidman - Being the Ricardos
- Kristen Stewart - Spencer
- Penelope Cruz - Parallel Mothers
Best actor
- Winner: Will Smith - King Richard
- Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
- Andrew Garfield - Tick, Tick... Boom!
- Denzel Washington - The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Javier Bardem - Being the Ricardos
Best supporting actress
- Winner: Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
- Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog
- Aunjanue Ellis - King Richard
- Dame Judi Dench - Belfast
- Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter
Best supporting actor
- Winner: Troy Kotsur - Coda
- Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog
- Ciarán Hinds - Belfast
- Jesse Plemons - The Power of the Dog
- JK Simmons - Being the Ricardos
Best director
- Winner: Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog
- Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
- Steven Spielberg - West Side Story
- Sir Kenneth Branagh - Belfast
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car
Best original screenplay
- Winner: Belfast - Sir Kenneth Branagh
- Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson
- King Richard - Zach Baylin
- Don't Look Up - Adam McKay (story by McKay and David Sirota)
- The Worst Person in the World - Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
Best adapted screenplay
- Winner: Coda - Sian Heder
- The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion
- The Lost Daughter - Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Dune - Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
- Drive My Car - Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe
Best animated feature
- Winner: Encanto
- Luca
- The Mitchells vs the Machines
- Flee
- Raya and the Last Dragon
Best documentary feature
- Winner: Summer of Soul
- Flee
- Ascension
- Attica
- Writing with Fire
Best international feature
- Winner: Drive My Car (Japan)
- The Worst Person in the World (Norway)
- Flee (Denmark)
- The Hand of God (Italy)
- Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)
Best original song
- Winner: No Time to Die - No Time to Die (Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell)
- Dos Oruguitas - Encanto (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
- Be Alive - King Richard (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Dixson)
- Belfast - Down to Joy (Van Morrison)
- Somehow You Do - Four Good Days (Diane Warren)
Best original score
- Winner: Dune - Hans Zimmer
- The Power of the Dog - Jonny Greenwood
- Don't Look Up - Nicholas Britell
- Encanto - Germaine Franco
- Parallel Mothers - Alberto Iglesias
Best cinematography
- Winner: Dune - Greig Fraser
- The Power of the Dog - Ari Wegner
- The Tragedy of Macbeth - Bruno Delbonnel
- Nightmare Alley - Dan Laustsen
- West Side Story - Janusz Kaminski
Best visual effects
- Winner: Dune - Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, Gerd Nefzer
- Free Guy - Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Dan Sudick
- Spider-Man: No Way Home - Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver
- No Time to Die - Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner, Chris Corbould
Best film editing
- Winner: Dune - Joe Walker
- The Power of the Dog - Peter Sciberras
- Don't Look Up - Hank Corwin
- King Richard - Pamela Martin
- Tick, Tick... Boom! - Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum
Best costume design
- Winner: Cruella - Jenny Beavan
- Dune - Jacqueline West and Bob Morgan
- West Side Story - Paul Tazewell
- Nightmare Alley - Luis Sequeira
- Cyrano - Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran
Best sound
- Winner: Dune - Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett
- West Side Story - Tod A Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy
- No Time to Die - Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor
- Belfast - Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri
- The Power of the Dog - Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb
Best production design
- Winner: Dune - Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos
- Nightmare Alley - Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau
- West Side Story - Adam Stockhausen and Rena DeAngelo
- The Tragedy of Macbeth - Stefan Dechant and Nancy Haigh
- The Power of the Dog - Grant Major and Amber Richards
Best make-up and hairstyling
- Winner: The Eyes of Tammy Faye - Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh
- Dune - Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
- Cruella - Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon
- Coming 2 America - Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer
- House of Gucci - Goran Lundstrom, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras
Best live action short
- Winner: The Long Goodbye
- Ala Kachuu - Take and Run
- The Dress
- On My Mind
- Please Hold
Best animated short
- Winner: The Windshield Wiper
- Affairs of the Art
- Bestia
- Boxballet
- Robin Robin
Best documentary short
- Winner: The Queen of Basketball
- Audible
- Lead Me Home
- Three Songs for Benazir
- When We Were Bullies
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