New Zealander Jane Campion also made a triumphant return by winning the Oscar for best director for “The Power of the Dog”.
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A fabulous evening at the Oscars. CODA, a low-budget film about the complicated life of a deaf family and their hearing daughter, received the supreme Oscar award on Sunday March 27, defying the odds and making many heavyweights in competition bite the dust. American Jessica Chastain won the Best Actress Oscar for In the eyes of Tammy Faye and his role as a televangelist with a big heart and outrageous makeup.
The ever-popular Will Smith received the Best Actor Oscar for his role in The Williams Methodwhere he plays the coaching father of tennis champions Serena and Venus Williams. “I want to apologize to the Academy” of the Oscars, launched in tears the actor, who caused a moment of stupefaction in the room a little earlier after going on stage, apparently furious, to slap the comedian Chris Rock who had just made a joke on the skull shaved from his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, suffering from alopecia, a significant loss of hair.
Finally, the New Zealander Jane Campion signs a triumphant return by winning the Oscar for best director for her psychological western The Power of the Dog. The filmmaker is only the third woman to receive this prestigious award, just one year after Chloé Zhao and 12 years after pioneer Kathryn Bigelow for Minesweepers.
The victory of CODAadapted from the French hit The Aries Family allows Apple TV+ to become the first streaming platform to win the Oscars in the flagship category of best feature film. Director Sian Heder won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and actor Troy Kotsur, deaf from birth, the trophy for Best Supporting Actor.