CODA won Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay!
Apple TV+ has done the Sundance Film Festival a kind of source to acquire several of the films released on its platform. The first of her CODA It became the winner of the festival in 2021 and the most expensive of this event, after Apple paid $25 million for its rights. Some time later, it continues to show that this is a great investment.
In addition to being recognized by viewers, this weekend the film won two BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay
CODA benefits from new recognitions
At the in-person ceremony in London, Troy Kotsur received his Personal Supporting Actor award and writer-director Siân Heder won Best Adapted Screenplay. With this victory, Troy Kotsur became the first deaf actor to win a BAFTA in the category. Writer-director Siân Heder also won her first BAFTA award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Kotsur and Heder weren’t the only ones on stage. CODA actress Emilia Jones also starred a moving rendition of Joni Mitchell’s Ballad “Both Sides Now”the same song performed by his character in the film”.
“CODA tells the story of seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones), who is the only hearing member of a deaf family, a CODA, child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as an interpreter for her parents (Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur) and working on the family fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant), but when Ruby joins her high school choir, she discovers a gift for herself. for singing and is attracted to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo).Encouraged by her enthusiastic and caring choir director (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations he feels towards his family and the pursuit of his own dreams.”
This 2022 Apple TV+ has also acquired the rights to this year’s Sundance Film Festival-winning film,Cha Cha real smooth with Dakota Johnson and Cooper Raiff, which will be released on July 17.
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