Will a Streaming Service Movie Finally Win Best Picture Oscar?
2022-03-26
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1The American movie industry will hold the Academy Awards, known as the Oscars, on Sunday in Los Angeles.
2Some movie critics think CODA may be the first movie from a media streaming service to win the best picture award.
3CODA is about a deaf family with a daughter who can hear.
4The movie was made by Apple TV+, Apple's streaming service.
5It won the top award from the Producer's Guild and Screen Actors Guild, two movie industry groups, earlier this year.
6The first film from a streaming service to be nominated for best picture came in 2016.
7The movie was Amazon's Manchester by the Sea.
8That year, the winner was Spotlight, about the Boston Globe newspaper.
9The main competition for CODA this year appears to be from Netflix, another streaming service.
10It is the film The Power of the Dog.
11That movie won the top award from three other movie industry groups this year.
12Marlee Matlin is one of the main actors in CODA. She is also deaf.
13She won an Oscar for her performance in the 1986 film Children of a Lesser God.
14"It would be great for a streamer to win, I think, because it just expands the landscape," Matlin said.
15An Oscar win - even a nomination - lifts the financial performance of a movie.
16The media market research company Comscore follows movie ticket sales.
17It said ticket sales for Best Picture nominees Dune and King Richard each increased by about four times after being nominated.
18Seven of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture can be watched using streaming services.
19The other three can be purchased or rented to watch at home.
20It is possible that, instead of ticket sales, the streaming services will gain more subscribers after Sunday's awards are announced.
21Dune, West Side Story and Nightmare Alley are all available on HBO Max.
22A spokesperson for the service said all three movies recently had more people watching them.
23When Jessica Chastain was nominated for Best Actress, her film The Eyes of Tammy Faye had a 42 percent increase in viewers.
24One movie business expert said 10 years ago the movie studios used "buzz" from award shows to get people to buy tickets.
25"Now," the expert said, "all of these streamers have something to gain."
26Kerry Washington is one of Hollywood's top actors.
27Although more people are watching movies at home, she does not think "it is the death of anything."
28Washington said, "I think we're just having more and more options and ways to appreciate content."
29I'm Dan Friedell.