CODA (2021)

Movies the giraffe watched in 2022: April (33 movies items)

"First viewing - Apr. 2nd I was completely emotionally invested in this from the start, & it left me a wreck. But in a good way. The cast is terrific & I appreciate the messages & the way they were delivered. There's some great humor throughout too. Happy that it won awards, they're all well deserved."

Year By Year Of My Favorite Flix (103 movies items)

"Sometimes, the stars are all just perfectly aligned.CODA is, by all intents and purposes, a formula flick. Or more specifically, it's an obvious formula flick. The path of it's themes of family set against the everyday obstacles that come from the handicap of being deaf don't really take us anywhere where we haven't been before.So why then, for such a run of the the mill style setting, is CODA on so many "best of the year" lists (including this one), to the point that it has an Academy Award for"

Movie Diary 2022 (17 movies items)

"7.4 Cast Emilia Jones Troy Kotsur Daniel Durant Marlee Matlin 111min"

Movies - Watched in 2022 (17 movies items)

"directed by Sian Heder France, Canada, USA 2021 Coming-of-Age, Drama, Comedy "

Predicting the Winners of the 2022 Oscars (20 movies items)

"And the Nominees are... *Ciarán Hinds- Belfast *Troy Kotsur- CODA/b> *Jesse Plemons- The Power of the Dog/b> *J.K. Simmons- Being the Ricardos/b> *Kodi Smit-McPhee- The Power of the Dog/b> And the Oscar goes to... Kotsur and CODA are on a real momentum wave, and I expect it to continue here. He won the Critics Choice, BAFTA and SAG awards; pretty strong. Smit-McPhee could score the surprise, as he was the early favorite and could still have some residual love. It just doesn't seem likely t"