Why CODA Won Best Picture At The 2022 Oscars

screenrant.com:

Here’s why CODA won Best Picture at the Oscars 2022. When the nominations for the 2022 Oscars were first announced, The Power of the Dog became the immediate front runner thanks to its dozen nods, the most of any movie. It led throughout awards season, picking up key wins at the Golden Globes, DGA Awards, Critics Choice Awards, and the BAFTAs, and was hoping to carry that momentum through to the 94th Academy Awards.

A few challengers have been mooted throughout — at first, it looked like Belfast, with its seven nominations, might be the biggest threat. As the awards ceremony neared, though, CODA emerged as the main Best Picture contender alongside The Power of the Dog, thanks to winning major prizes at the WGA and more importantly PGA Awards. While the Oscars 2022 ceremony itself was largely overshadowed due to the shocking events that saw Will Smith hit Chris Rock and curse at him over a joke made about Jada Pinkett Smith, there was still the matter of the top prize to hand out.

Related: What Happened With Will Smith & Chris Rock At The Oscars?

In the end, it was CODA that won Best Picture at the Oscars 2022, beating out The Power of the Dog and eight other nominees. CODA's Best Picture win is impressive, considering it's a relatively smaller movie than most of those it was up against and didn't make a huge awards splash when it first released on Apple TV+ in August 2021, though the studio had paid a record $25 million for the movie after its premiere at Sundance. In terms of why CODA won Best Picture at the Oscars 2022, from a standpoint of the technical decision making behind the Oscars then its win at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where it won the Outstanding Performance By A Cast In A Motion Picture Award, is the