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Analyze This: Why ‘Coda’ Won The 2022 Best Picture Oscar

March 28, 2022 2:30 pm

After the dismal ratings of last year’s Oscar broadcast, a lot was in the balance for this year’s edition, one less severely curtailed by Covid protocols but with its own share of new worries and controversy. ...

Oscars 2022: The Snubs & Surprises

Marya E. Gates

March 28, 2022 9:58 am

Awards, Features, News

The Oscars were back in the Dolby Theater this year with social distancing and eight categories presented before the live show even began. While there was a joke about Samuel L. Jackson in hosts Regina Hall, A...

‘CODA’ Wins Best Picture & Makes Oscar & Apple TV+ History

Gregory Ellwood

March 27, 2022 11:36 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

A streamer has won the Oscar for Best Picture, but, surprisingly, it isn’t the industry’s leader, Netflix. Instead, Apple TV+ has made history, taking the Academy Award’s top honor for “CODA.” It’s a win that ...

Sian Heder Is Ready For New Challenges After ‘CODA’ [Interview]

Gregory Ellwood

March 18, 2022 9:23 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, Interviews, News

Sian Heder made the right call. She could have stayed in Los Angeles to attend the Critics Choice Awards where she was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for “CODA,” but instead, she went with one of her no...

‘CODA’ Trailer: The Deaf Culture-Focused Drama that Dominated Sundance Comes To Apple TV+ In August

Jake Sweltz

June 24, 2021 11:07 am

News, Trailers

Apple TV+ has put out a bunch of high-profile original movies in the year-and-a-half since its launch. “On the Rocks,” “Greyhound,” and “Cherry” were all made with veteran directors and big-name stars. But cr...

‘Coda’ Dominates 2021 Sundance Film Festival Awards

Gregory Ellwood

February 2, 2021 10:24 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, Festivals, News

For the first time in recent memory, the Sundance Film Festival recruited just three members each for its competition juries. Even in the context of a virtual festival, that might have been a mistake after one...

Siân Heder Talks Sundance Crowd-Pleasing Drama ‘CODA,’ Deaf Culture, Families & More [Interview]

Tomris Laffly

January 29, 2021 10:43 am

Features, Interviews, News

Writer-director Siân Heder, whose unconventional family drama “Tallulah” premiered at the 2016 edition of Sundance, is excited to be back at the festival, even if the conditions are somewhat different this yea...

‘CODA’ Transcends The Feel-Good Movie Genre Even When You See It Coming A Mile Away [Sundance Review]

Gregory Ellwood

January 28, 2021 10:08 pm

Awards Campaign, Festivals, News, Reviews

In this virtual era, it goes without saying that much of the communal aspect of a film festival has evaporated. Strangers don’t compare notes waiting inline or with their neighbor before a film begins. Reactio...

All Hell Breaks Loose For Ellen Page In First Trailer For ‘Tallulah’

Rodrigo Perez

June 29, 2016 2:26 pm

News, Trailers

Netflix seems to be out of the prestige-film, going-after-awards business just after one season of major challenges with their Oscar run of “Beasts Of No Nation.” But that doesn’t mean they’re still not going a...

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