With CODA’s coronation at the 2022 Oscars, all streaming platforms are in the spotlight. Because the ceremony also gave pride of place to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and other Disney+. Here is the list of awarded or nominated films that you can quickly catch up with.
The 94th Academy Awards took place in Los Angeles on Sunday and crowned CODA, the Apple TV+ exclusive film and remake of The Aries Family, best film of the year. Behind the success of Apple’s platform launched in 2019, the entire industry is changing its benchmarks with the rise of video streaming services now recognized as true players in the 7th Art.
Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and of course Apple TV+ leave with many statuettes. If you haven’t seen them yet, here are the award-winning or at least nominated movies to catch up on urgently.
CODA
Give honour where honour is due. French film remake The Aries Family d’Eric Lartigau, CODA is the big winner of the 2022 Oscars, crowned best film and best adapted screenplay. Its plot takes up that of the French film with Karin Viard, François Damiens and Louane on the story of a teenager with deaf parents. CODA means by the way Child Of Death Adult (child of deaf parent). Ruby discovers a passion for singing when she joins her high school choir. Gifted, she must manage her family life with her obligations and her life as a teenager.
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The Power of the Dog
The most nominated film at the Oscars this year with Dune (12). Directed by Jane Campion (The Piano Lesson) and adapted from Thomas Savage’s novel, The Power of the Dog tells the story of a cowboy, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, who cannot freely live his homosexuality in Montana in the 1920s. The Power of the Dog settled for the Oscar for best director for Jane Campion, becoming the third woman crowned in the category following Kathryn Bigelow (Minesweepers) et Chloe Zhao (Nomadland), l’an dernier.
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> Available on Netflix
Don’t Look up: Cosmic Denial
Available since last December, this Netflix Originals film offers itself a dream cast: Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play second-rate astronomers who discover that a comet is regarding to collide and destroy the Earth by causing an unprecedented climatic catastrophe. They attempt to warn the world that the end is near, but encounter a far more threatening unscientific reality. Also with Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, Ariana Grande or Timothée Chalamet.
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In the eyes of Tammy Faye
If you want to check out Jessica Chastain’s performance that won her the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Tammy Faye, wife of televangelist Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield) who built a lucrative media empire in the 1980s before being convicted of embezzlement. A defender of the LGBT community in a homophobic religious environment and at the time of AIDS, Tammy Faye was a personality that was both exuberant, but upright in her positions in the conservative America of Ronald Reagan. With even an Oscar for hairstyles and makeup as a bonus.
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Spencer
In the list of nominees for the Oscar for best actress, alongside Jessica Chastain, there were three other actresses in productions from streaming platforms. Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos), but also Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter) and Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in Spencer. Almost 25 years following her death, Lady Di is reborn as the former star of Twilight. The film revisits the 1991 Christmas of the couple she then formed with Prince Charles
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Being The Ricardos
Nicole Kidman brilliantly embodies Lucille Ball, undisputed star of American television of the 1950s with her series I Love Lucillein Being the Ricardos directed by Aaron Sorkin (The Chicago Seven). She shares the screen with Javier Bardem who plays her husband, the other star of the sitcom Desi Arnaz. The film traces a week in the life of the couple, then the target of personal accusations and defamation. An acting duo who were in the running for Best Actor and Best Actress, as well as JK Simmons for Best Supporting Actor.
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The Lost daughter
After being Queen Elizabeth in The Queen, Olivia Colman masterfully plays a divorced English teacher who loses her mind following meeting Nina (Dakota Johnson), a young neighbor who awakens painful memories in her. The Lost Daughter East the first film directed by actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Secretary, The Dark Knight, Donnie Darko…).
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Macbeth
The other Apple TV + film in the running for the Oscars, but left empty-handed. Macbeth is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s work by Joel Coen (without his brother Ethan) with two stars in the front line: Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. A Scottish lord is convinced by witches that he will be the next king. Supported by his wife, he embarks on a mad quest. Madness, manipulation and murder are on the program of this black and white work which earned Denzel Washington a nomination as best actor.
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Tick, tick… Boom !
Also featured in In the eyes of Tammy Fayeit’s good though Tick, Tick… Boom ! which earned Andrew Garfield a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Jonathan Larson, songwriter of Broadway musicals in the 1990s. inspiration, gratitude, love and a bohemian life.
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And also…
Honored with the Oscar for best documentary, Summer of Soul (Disney+) traces the history of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, considered the ” Woodstock noir », where Nina Simone, a very young Stevie Wonder, BB King or the Reverend Jesse Jackson took turns. Army of the Dead (Netflix) is Zack Snyder’s latest undead film and it walked away with the audience award. God’s hand (Netflix) by Paolo Sorrentino tells the story of Fabietto, a Neapolitan teenager from the 80s and a fan of Maradona who then arrives in the club of his city.
As for animated films, you can catch up The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Netflix), Raya and the Last Dragon or Luca (Disney +) who were nominated for the Oscar.
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