How 'CODA' Won Best Picture

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( Oscars [How CODA Won Best Picture]( All season long, Sian Heder’s movie was overshadowed by bigger, starrier contenders. But none of that mattered come final voting. Photo: Apple TV+ In the end, it was almost fitting that CODA won Best Picture on a night when all anyone could talk about was an A-lister bringing [a bit of Sunday Night Raw energy to the Oscars stage](. All season long, Sian Heder’s movie was overshadowed by bigger, starrier contenders. But none of that mattered come final voting. Two Netflix films packed with celebrities, a gigantic sci-fi blockbuster, Steven freaking Spielberg’s remake of a former Best Picture winner — all lost to a little Sundance movie about a teenage hearing girl and her horny Deaf family. [Read The Story »]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now](for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • [Summer House:]( Hasta La Pasta Stories We Think You’ll Like 1. [This Month in True-Crime Podcasts: Drug Kingpins, Amityville, and More Plus a look back at the Green River Killer.]( By Vulture Editors 2. [Questlove Was in a Meditative State During the Slap When he accepted his Oscar moments later, he “really wasn’t aware” of what had happened.]( By Justin Curto 3. [11 Queer Animated Kids’ Shows to Stream Right Now Yes, Sailor Moon is very gay.]( By Michele Kirichanskaya 4. [A Case About Andy Warhol’s Prince Artwork Is Headed to the Supreme Court The justices will decide if Warhol meaningfully transformed a photograph of the singer enough for fair use to apply.]( By Jennifer Zhan [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( 5. [Plaza Suite Contains the Bleakest Comedy I’ve Seen in Years Parker and Broderick drown the pangs of middle age in room-service Champagne.]( By Helen Shaw 6. [The Oscars Needed More Jokes, Actually Jokes could have relieved the ceremony’s unbearable tension. Why didn’t the Oscars make more?]( By Kathryn VanArendonk 7. [The 2022 Oscars Had 50 Percent More Viewers Than Last Year Making the broadcast the second-lowest-watched ceremony of all time.]( By Josef Adalian 8. [The Rediscovered Prescience of SpongeBob’s “Squirrel Jokes” Co-writer Walt Dohrn discusses the 2001 SpongeBob SquarePants episode that lives on in meme form.]( By Rebecca Alter [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 3-Down, Ten Letters: Bonus content in video games. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Dreamworks Distribution, Twentieth Century and Getty Images Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. [Listen to Hell and Gone](, private investigator Catherine Townsend’s popular true-crime podcast, which launched in 2018 and is back with a new season. Townsend returns to her Arkansas roots to investigate the disappearance and mysterious death of Little Rock native Ebby Steppach, who went missing in October 2015. [Read more from Vulture]( Tonight at Union Hall Vulture’s weekly comedy show, Pretty Major, will feature Jordan Carlos, Janelle James, James Austin Johnson, Moss Perricone, Catherine Shannon, and Maddie Wiener. [Buy tickets here.]( Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY If you enjoyed reading Vulture’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or dive deeper into the Vulture universe with our other newsletters: • [1.5x Speed](: Podcast recommendations and listening notes from Nick Quah, sent every Wednesday. • [Buffering](: Joe Adalian reports on the streaming industry, sent every Thursday. • [The Housewives Institute Bulletin](: For dedicated students of the Reality TV Arts and Sciences, sent every other Friday. • [Vulture 10x10 Crossword](: A puzzle for pop-culture obsessives sent to your inbox every weekday. • [The Critics](: A weekly dispatch on the cultural discourse, sent Fridays. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved