Oscar 2022: CODA scripts history as first streamer to win Academy Awards

Guwahati, March 28: The 94th Academy Awards were presented on Sunday. For the first time Apple TV+ made history at the 94th Academy Awards as the first streaming service to take home the film industry's biggest prize. With the Oscar wins — CODA won three awards, including Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. CODA is about a deaf family with a hearing daughter.

The award ceremony which took place after the pandemic witnessed an upbeat atmosphere. However, it was shortly disrupted when best actor winner Will Smith slapped presenter Chris Rock onstage over a joke about the actor's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

India's Writing With Fire, directed, produced and edited by filmmaker duo Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas, that documents the story of Khabar Lahariya, a newspaper run by Dalit women journalists lost out the Best Documentary Feature honour to 'Summer of Soul'.

Here is the list of winners at the 94th Academy Awards.

Best picture: CODA

Best actress: Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Best Actor: Will Smith - King Richard

Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose - West Side Story

Best Supporting Actor: Troy Kotsur – CODA

Best Director: Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog

Best Original Screenplay: Belfast - Sir Kenneth Branagh

Best Adapted Screenplay: Coda - Sian Heder

Best Animated Feature: Encanto

Best Documentary Feature: Summer of Soul

Best International Feature: Drive My Car (Japan)

Best Original Song: No Time to Die - No Time to Die (Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell)

Best Original Score: Dune - Hans Zimmer

Best cinematography: Dune - Greig Fraser

Best visual effects: Dune - Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, Gerd Nefzer

Best film editing: Dune - Joe Walker

Best costume design: Cruella - Jenny Beavan

Best sound: Dune - Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett

Best production design: Dune - Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos

Best make-up and hairstyling: The Eyes of Tammy Faye - Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh

Best live action short: The Long Goodbye

Best animated short: The Windshield Wiper

Best documentary short: The Queen of Basketball