What it took for Apple to win Best Picture at the Oscars with 'CODA'

At the Academy Awards on March 27, the Apple TV+ film CODA became the first movie from a streaming service to win Best Picture, while also collecting Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay on the same night. Here's what it took for Apple to win that award, before Netflix or Amazon did.

Apple won its first-ever Academy Award on March 27, when Troy Kotsur of the film CODA won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Less than an hour later Sian Heder, the writer/director of CODA, won a second Apple trophy, for Best Adapted Screenplay. And finally, CODA took the night's biggest honor, for Best Picture, meaning that the film won in all three categories in which it was nominated.Even more notably, the CODA victory represented the first Best Picture trophy ever presented to a film released by a streaming service. That means Apple beat out Netflix and Amazon Prime Video to that honor, even though both of those services enjoyed head starts of several years.

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