CODA has become the first picture from a streaming service to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, demonstrating the streamers’ growing supremacy at Hollywood’s most prestigious awards ceremony. The Apple TV Plus film chronicles Ruby Rossi’s (Emilia Jones) hardships as the only hearing member of a deaf family as she attempts to forge a life apart from her family. Apple purchased the rides to CODA for $25 million in a bidding war following the film’s Sundance premiere last year.
