Saturday, March 11, 2023

'CODA', 'Dune', Kenneth Branagh and Japan's 'Drive my Car', win the top prizes at the Oscars of 2022

“CODA”, a dramatic film about a young woman who dreams about a carreer in music and who is also the only hearing person in her deaf family, was the surprise winner of the top Best Picture category, in the 94th annual Academy of Motion Pictures Art and Science -the Oscar- awards, which took place on March 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. 
“CODA” also won Oscars for Best Supporting Actor (Troy Kotsur) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Jane Campion won for Best Achievement in Directing, for the dramatic western “The Power of the Dog”, which was made and produced by the streaming service Netflix. 
Denis Villeneuve's epic science fiction feature film “Dune”, based on Frank Herbert's book, won a total of six Oscars, including Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design and Best Sound. 
Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”) and Will Smith (“King Richard”) both won for Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively, while Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) won for Best Supporting Actress. Japan's “Drive My Car”, directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, won for Best International Feature Film. 
After being nominated six times over the course of the years, Irish-born writer, director and actor Kenneth Branagh finally won his first Oscar, for Best Original Screenplay for “Belfast”, a very personal film for him, about a young boy and his working-class Irish family, and their struggles during the tumultuous late 1960's in Belfast. 

Follow this link for a complete list of winners : https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/2022/1?ref_=ttawd_ev_1

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