Dune, CODA wins at Oscars, Will Smith adjudged the best actor

Dune won six of the 10 awards it was nominated for in the 94th Academy Awards held today. Meanwhile, CODA hogged limelight at the 94th Academy Awards winning three big awards of the night – Best Film, Best Supporting Actor for the hearing-impaired Troy Kotsur and Best Adapted Screenplay.

The acting awards went to first time winners. Will Smith won Best Actor for King Richard,, Jessica Chastain won Best Actress for The Eyes Of Tammy Faye – she received her Oscar from Anthony Hopkins who did not appear at last year’s awards to collect his Best Actor Oscar but turned up this year to give Jessica her trophy.

Troy Kotsur became the second deaf actor to win an Academy Award after his CODA co-star Marlee Matlin.

Dune won six of the 10 awards it was nominated for. Japan’s Drive My Car won Best International Feature, Encanto won Best Animated Feature and India’s Writing With Fire missed out on Best Documentary Feature which went to Summer Of Soul.

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