Sounds like the feel good type of movie that wins, and then is mocked in the future.
But it is cool that a movie with a mostly deaf cast won.

I'd at least heard of all the rest of them, and I've seen The Power of the Dog, Nightmare Alley and Don't Look Up. I thought those were all contenders, especially Dog, but maybe they were too dark for this year.

She said it was good but not really Oscar worthy. I think it got a (hate to say it but) pity award?

I wouldn’t say “pity” but once I saw it was nominated I knew it would win.

Several movies were much better.
Power of the Dog
Drive My Car
The Lost Daughter
Nightmare Alley
maybe Belfast

based on the clip I saw. I like dogs so maybe I'll look into the dog one.
I only saw West Side Story. Thought it was fab. Much better on the big screen.

It was my second choice for Best Picture after CODA, and was my first choice until I saw CODA.

Licorice Pizza is good fun, but I didn't think it was Oscar material. I think the main draw for a lot of Hollywood people was probably that the lead actor, the kid, is the late Philip Seymour Hoffman's son--and he is quite good.

Power of the Dog actually has nothing to do with dogs. It is a rather grim but poignant tale. Jane Campion deserved her Best Director award for it. It is a work of art in terms of filmmaking.

I agree about West Side Story. It was lots of fun!

I streamed all the Best Picture contenders except for King Richard and Drive My Car. I just ran out of time to get to those two. It's the first time ever that I had seen MOST of them. And it was all because of being able to stream them. (I love movies, so it was fun.)

good.

It’s a charmer. Not a lifetime favorite but a very good movie.

It won Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. Previously it won a ton of awards at Sundance, and in a war with Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, Apple paid $25 million for the rights to it.

The casting was perfect and had actual deaf actors playing the parents of the family. The actor who played the father won Best Actor and earned it. He was awesome! The one hearing family member was a teenage girl. To prepare for the part, she learned American Sign Language, learned how to fish on a trawler (the family's business is fishing), and took voice lessons for the singing she did (which was great).

It is a special film with a lot of heart. It will definitely make you laugh and it may make you cry.

Actually there are two films called "Coda" and they're both great. The newer one is called "CODA" all caps.

we got half way through.

Why you're responding to a post from a couple years ago?

We actually loved the Holdovers - so we don't dislike all recent movies!

We are on a limited Apple tv trial so are sampling things we missed