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The Apple-produced film marked a milestone by being the first film from streaming platforms to win the top Academy Award.

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Tape CODA: Heart Signs made history by recognizing this Sunday at the ceremony for the Best Picture of the 2022 Oscar Awards. And this is the first time that the production has won a very important category medal from the streaming platform.

The drama about a deaf family directed by Sian Heder also scooped the Academy Award for  Best Adapted Screenplay  and  Best Supporting Actor  for  Troy Kotsur , managing to beat out strong contenders from traditional Hollywood studios.

CODA  means the first golden statuette for the production company  Apple TV + , prevailing over rivals such as  Netflix,  for which it  has marked a milestone in the history of the  film industry.

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It is  a low-budget production that initially appeared at the 2021 Sundance festival . It won the four prominent awards: direction, grand jury prize, audience, and best acting ensemble, to later be released in the  streaming  format. According to official figures,  CODA  raised 25 million dollars , and according to specialist estimates, it would have had a budget of 10 million dollars.

Writing and making this film was a major challenge as an artist and as a human being. I want to thank all my collaborators in the deaf community, in the ‘CODA’ community for being my teachers”, was the statement of the writer  Sian Heder  upon accepting the statuette for  Best Adapted Screenplay .

For his part, actor  Troy Kotsur , who won the Oscar for  Best Supporting Actor , expressed at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles: “I just wanted to say that this is dedicated to the deaf community, the ‘CODA’ community and the deaf community. disabled.  This is our time ,” he said in sign language, translated by an interpreter.

The film, which has deaf actors in its cast and is committed to inclusion by telling a life story from disability, left the critics’ favorite,  The Power of the Dog , by Jane Campion, to  Best Picture.

In addition,  CODA  won out against Kenneth Branagh’s acclaimed semi-autobiographical film  Belfast , Steven Spielberg’s remake of  West Side Story , satire  Don’t Look Up , sci-fi film  Dune , biography  Rey Richard: A Winning Family , the teen comedy  Licorice Pizza ,  Dive my Car , and Mexican Guillermo del Toro’s horror film,  The Alley of Lost Souls .

CODA, an acronym for the hearing children of deaf parents in the United States, is based on the 2014 French film  The Bélier Family . Unlike it, the winning production at the 94th Academy Awards does have disabled actors in its cast. Truth.  CODA  managed to win over critics with a family drama that follows the life of  Ruby, the daughter of deaf parents who, upon reaching adolescence, assumes her responsibility to be her link to the world , faced with the dilemma of following her dream of being a singer. or continue to be “the voice” of your family.

The Mexican  Eugenio Derbez  is part of the film playing “Bernardo Villalobos,” Ruby’s music teacher, who encourages her in her intention to be an artist. After the triumph of  CODA  by Lady Gaga and Liza Minelli was announced, Derbez took the stage with  Troy Kotsur, Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Daniel Durant, and the film’s production team to receive the statuette.

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After that, the actor and director wrote on Instagram: “Long live Mexico!!! Tonight the winner was inclusion. Long live the art of cinema.  CODA has shown that you can always make history, even without big names or a budget , but putting all your heart into it.”

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