The first film from a streaming service to win an Oscar was "CODA" from Apple TV+.
ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were working to prove that the Oscars could be relevant to the culture. It was a night for the ages.
Will Smith won the best actor Oscar for his performance in King Richard, which was about the fiery, flawed coach and father of the tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams. The ceremony had been derailed when Smith strode onstage from his seat, in what seemed like a pre-planned bit, but Rock just cracked a joke about Smith's wife.
I love you, Jada. Rock said that G.I. Jane 2 can wait. She revealed her diagnosis. In 1997 she shaved her head to play Jane in a movie.
Smith yelled at Rock to keep his wife's name out of his mouth after the altercation. Rock tried to regain his composure, and the stunned audience at home and in the theater tried to figure out what had happened. The best documentary award was presented by Rock, but an emotional acceptance speech by the film's director, Ahmir.
Sean Combs arrived onstage soon after to introduce a celebration from The Godfather.
It was Smith's first Oscar. He was nominated for best actor in both 2002 and 2007.
Smith said in accepting the award that Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family.
He apologized to the academy and his fellow nominees. Smith hopes the academy will invite him back.
Smith said that you have to be able to take abuse in order to do what you do. Have to smile and pretend it's okay.
The Power of the Dog, a film about a dog and its owner, was the winner of the top prize. With tech giants like Apple and Amazon threatening entertainment-industry business practices and threatening Hollywood power, the win by Apple TV+ was a big deal. The Oscars are one of the lines of demarcation between television and film.
Patrick Wachsberger thanked Apple from the stage, noting that the company was able to put this everywhere in the world.
It was her first Oscar, having previously been nominated in 2013 for "Zero Dark Thirty" and in 2012 for "Zero Dark Thirty" Everyone knows that you are loved for who you are, no matter what.
Over the last few years,Netflix has poured wheelbarrows of cash into Oscar campaigns. There were 27 nominations going into the ceremony. Campion became the third woman to win in the directing category with her direction of The Power of the Dog. The Hurt Locker and Nomadland were both nominated for best director last year. Campion was the first woman to be nominated more than once, having been nominated in 1994 for The Piano.
Campion began her speech in the language of the Indigenous people of New Zealand.
Old-fashioned theatrical movies dominated much of the ceremony despite streaming services like Apple TV+ and Netflix drawing the most nominations. The big-budget, science-fiction blockbuster won six Oscars. Ariana DeBose won the best supporting Oscar for her role in West Side Story.
She is the second Latina to receive an acting Oscar. Rita Moreno won for the same role in the original film. She went on to thank the man in the feathered hat who was looking at the audience.
Imagine this little girl in the back seat of a white Ford Focus, an openly queer woman of color who found her strength through art. I promise you there is a place for you, if you questioned your identity and found yourself living in the gray spaces.
Troy Kotsur was the first deafness man in academy history to win an Oscar for acting. His performance in CODA was honored by voters as a fisherman struggled to relate to his hearing daughter. Marlee Matlin was the only person who was blind to win an acting Oscar. She won the best actress statuette in 1987 for Children of a Lesser God.
"I cannot believe I'm here, I'm speaking through a sign-language interpreter." He dedicated his win to the disabled.
The Oscar for best song went to "No Time To Die" and "Drive My Car" by Finneas O'Connell and Billie Eilish. Hamaguchi was cut off by the music while giving his speech. Kenneth Branagh won his first Oscar for his original screenplay, which revisits a moment from his childhood in Northern Ireland, while Sian Heder won for her adapted screenplay.
The dire need to attract more viewers to the live telecast was obvious from its entertainment-focused opening sequence, which featured an elaborate performance by Beyonc and dozens of backup performers from the tennis courts where the Williams sisters got their start. Then came a trio of hosts, including Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes. The last three ceremonies did not have hosts.
The anti-L.G.B.T.Q. legislation opponents have called “ was the reason for the gay night. The trio chanted Gay!
The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not mentioned during the opening of the show, which featured a D.J., a second standup routine from Schumer, and a sketch from Hall that found a shirtless Chalamet and other male stars onstage. Three sports stars arrived to introduce a film about the 60 years of the James Bond franchise. The academy finally acknowledged the war in Ukraine with a moment of silence after Reba McEntire's performance of a nominated song.
The telecast was used as a promo for some upcoming movies. Chris Evans introduced a commercial for Pixar's "Toy Story: Lightyear" which will be in theaters in June. The academy's new museum in Los Angeles was the subject of a lengthy pretaped promotion.
The television audience for the Academy Awards dropped so steeply last year that organizers decided to change the live broadcast. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences moved the presentation of the Oscars to a nontelevised portion and said it would record the acceptance speeches. Movie fans and artists were dismayed.
The academy stood firm, despite the fact that Dune, which was nominated in 10 categories, won the Oscars for best sound, score, production design and editing. The composer who wrote the score for "Dune" was not present to accept the Oscar.
The team behind the transformation into a televangelist with tarantula eyelashes won an Oscar. From her seat in the front row, she embraced the group. The celebrity quotient grew as the hour went on, with seat fillers on heavy rotation.
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This is for everyone who feels like they are stuck in No Man's Land. We will meet you there.
Hollywood and its artisans have been grappling with the broader issue of do we still matter? In a year when Hollywood largely failed to jump-start theatrical moviegoing, streaming services solidified their hold on viewers.
The Power of the Dog, the most nominated film, was not seen by many people. Only 6 percent of people had seen the movie. Less than 4 million people have watched The Power of the Dog since it arrived on the streaming service.
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