Follow the latest news updates from the Oscars 2022.
The 94th Academy Awards were held on Sunday night at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. “CODA,” a relatively small-scale drama once considered an underdog, won the award for best picture, becoming the first film distributed by a streaming service to win Hollywood’s top honor. (“CODA” was released by Apple TV+, which purchased the movie after it played at the Sundance Film Festival in 2021.) The night’s most-awarded movie was “Dune,” which won in six categories including cinematography and production design.
The best director honor went to Jane Campion, whose subversive western, “The Power of the Dog,” was the most nominated movie of the night. Campion’s victory was important for Oscars history: This year’s ceremony became the first time that the best director Oscar has gone to women twice in a row. (Chloé Zhao won last year for “Nomadland”; Campion had already made history by being the first woman to be nominated for best director twice.)
Will Smith (“King Richard”) won the best actor category; Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”) won for best actress. Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”) received the best supporting actress award, becoming the first openly queer woman of color to win an acting Oscar. Troy Kotsur (“CODA”) won for best supporting actor, which made him the first deaf man to win an acting Oscar.
