Apple's Coda beats Netflix's The Power of the Dog to historic Oscar win

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Apple's Coda beats Netflix's The Power of the Dog to historic Oscar win
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Apple TV's Coda makes history as the first streaming film to win best picture at the Hollywood event.

The best picture win for Coda - which stands for Children of Deaf Adults - was a victory for a low-budget, independent film that has been praised for its representation of a deaf family, and for its casting of deaf actors.

With Coda, Apple thwarted Netflix's quest to become the first streaming service to win the prestigious best picture prize. She described Moreno, 90, who was in the audience, as a "divine inspiration", adding: "I'm so grateful your Anita paved the way for tonnes of Anitas like me." Sir Kenneth Branagh won his first ever Oscar, earning best original screenplay for writing the story of his own childhood at the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s in his black-and-white film Belfast.

"In such divided times we believe the role of story is to remind us there's no us and them, there's just us," he told the audience. Some stars acknowledged the war in Ukraine by wearing blue ribbons bearing the hashtag #WithRefugees in a campaign backed by the UN refugee agency .

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