Writer-director Cord Jefferson won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2024 Oscars for turning Percival Everett‘s novel “Erasure” into the critically acclaimed film “American Fiction.” That marked the fourth time in a decade that a film based on a novel won this award. The others: “Women Talking” (Sarah Polley), “Jojo Rabbit” (Taika Waititi), and “Call Me By Your Name” (James Ivory). This is the most common form of adaptation to win. Indeed this award, which dates back to the first Oscars in 1928, has gone to the adapters of 48 novels over the year. (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Adapted Screenplay.)
At the 2022 Oscars, Sian Heder won Best Adapted Screenplay for “Coda,” her adaptation of the French film “La Famille Bélier.” “Coda” also claimed Best Picture, thereby becoming the fifth remake to win the top Oscar. In 2021 playwright Florian Zeller shared in the Oscar win for Best Adapted...
At the 2022 Oscars, Sian Heder won Best Adapted Screenplay for “Coda,” her adaptation of the French film “La Famille Bélier.” “Coda” also claimed Best Picture, thereby becoming the fifth remake to win the top Oscar. In 2021 playwright Florian Zeller shared in the Oscar win for Best Adapted...
- 7/12/2024
- by Paul Sheehan and Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Aiming to expand its footprint within the scripted space, Banijay Entertainment’s French label Screenline Productions has formed a creative partnership with the writers duo Matthieu Rumani and Nicolas Slomka.
Screenline just collaborated with Rumani and Slomka on the series “Trash,” an upcoming Prime Video
mini-series inspired by the real-life events of “Loft Story,” the French adaptation of “Big Brother” which marked the country’s first reality show of this kind in 2001.
The partnership gives Screenline access to any future projects and developments from Rumani and Slomka, who will also co-produce through their own company, Vodka & Caramel. The writers pair, meanwhile, will be able to leverage Screenline’s production expertise.
Banijay France CEO Alexia Laroche-Joubert, who produced “Loft Story” and even inspired one of the protagonist of “Trash,” said that “when (she) first came across the project, led by two young talented writers, (she) was immediately intrigued to delve into...
Screenline just collaborated with Rumani and Slomka on the series “Trash,” an upcoming Prime Video
mini-series inspired by the real-life events of “Loft Story,” the French adaptation of “Big Brother” which marked the country’s first reality show of this kind in 2001.
The partnership gives Screenline access to any future projects and developments from Rumani and Slomka, who will also co-produce through their own company, Vodka & Caramel. The writers pair, meanwhile, will be able to leverage Screenline’s production expertise.
Banijay France CEO Alexia Laroche-Joubert, who produced “Loft Story” and even inspired one of the protagonist of “Trash,” said that “when (she) first came across the project, led by two young talented writers, (she) was immediately intrigued to delve into...
- 6/26/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
A decade after “La Famille Belier,” which was remade as the Oscar-winning “Coda,” another comedy featuring protagonists with disabilities, “A Little Something Extra” has stormed the French box office. It’s not only the year’s biggest hit so far, but the highest grossing French movie since before the pandemic.
Released May 1 by Pan Distribution and modestly budgeted at €6.1 million ($6.55 million), the feel-good movie (called “Un p’tit truc en plus” in French) has grossed an estimated €50.7 million ($54 million) from 7.2 million tickets sold as of June 16 — two times more than Warner Bros. tentpole “Dune 2” starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya.
It’s a mighty feat, considering that that unlike “La Famille Belier,” in which the deaf and speech-disabled characters are played by bankable European stars — Karin Viard and Francois Damiens — “A Little Something Extra” has an ensemble cast of young non-professionals with different types of disabilities.
The movie, produced by Pierre Forette...
Released May 1 by Pan Distribution and modestly budgeted at €6.1 million ($6.55 million), the feel-good movie (called “Un p’tit truc en plus” in French) has grossed an estimated €50.7 million ($54 million) from 7.2 million tickets sold as of June 16 — two times more than Warner Bros. tentpole “Dune 2” starring Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya.
It’s a mighty feat, considering that that unlike “La Famille Belier,” in which the deaf and speech-disabled characters are played by bankable European stars — Karin Viard and Francois Damiens — “A Little Something Extra” has an ensemble cast of young non-professionals with different types of disabilities.
The movie, produced by Pierre Forette...
- 6/18/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Vendôme Group has announced that Andy Serkis from the Planet Of The Apes and The Lord Of The Rings franchises is joining Oren Moverman’s Second World War psychological thriller The Man With The Miraculous Hands starring Woody Harrelson.
Snd has also boarded the film and will distribute in France and launch international sales in Cannes. It will also serve as co-producer.
Vendôme’s Philippe Rousselet and Jerico Films’ Eric Jehelmann will produce while Vendôme’s Fabrice Gianfermi and Jeremy Plager serve as executive producers.
Principal photography is set to commence in autumn on the story of Felix Kersten (Harrelson...
Snd has also boarded the film and will distribute in France and launch international sales in Cannes. It will also serve as co-producer.
Vendôme’s Philippe Rousselet and Jerico Films’ Eric Jehelmann will produce while Vendôme’s Fabrice Gianfermi and Jeremy Plager serve as executive producers.
Principal photography is set to commence in autumn on the story of Felix Kersten (Harrelson...
- 5/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
Vendôme Group has announced that Andy Serkis from the Planet Of The Apes and The Lord Of The Rings franchises is joining Oren Moverman’s Second World War psychological thriller The Man With The Miraculous Hands starring Woody Harrelson.
Snd has also boarded the film and will distribute in France and launch international sales in Cannes. It will also serve as co-producer.
Vendôme’s Philippe Rousselet and Jerico Films’ Eric Jehelmann will produce while Vendôme’s Fabrice Gianfermi and Jeremy Plager serve as executive producers.
Principal photography is set to commence in autumn on the story of Felix Kersten (Harrelson...
Snd has also boarded the film and will distribute in France and launch international sales in Cannes. It will also serve as co-producer.
Vendôme’s Philippe Rousselet and Jerico Films’ Eric Jehelmann will produce while Vendôme’s Fabrice Gianfermi and Jeremy Plager serve as executive producers.
Principal photography is set to commence in autumn on the story of Felix Kersten (Harrelson...
- 5/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film is launching a new initiative, bannered Cannes Remakes, aimed at fostering remake opportunities for European feature films that have proven successful in their home territories.
The inaugural program will include a pitching session of a curated selection of IP titles with potential, sourced from France, Spain and Italy. This will be followed by one-to-one meetings and a networking cocktail event for invited guests.
The new showcase is being organized in partnership with France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc), which will host the half-day event on it’s Cnc beach at Cannes on May 20. The selection will be unveiled closer to the event.
The program aims to tap into the thriving IP remake market, which has blossomed in recent years, in large part thanks to increased investment from global streaming services.
European feature film properties that have done well on the remake market...
The inaugural program will include a pitching session of a curated selection of IP titles with potential, sourced from France, Spain and Italy. This will be followed by one-to-one meetings and a networking cocktail event for invited guests.
The new showcase is being organized in partnership with France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc), which will host the half-day event on it’s Cnc beach at Cannes on May 20. The selection will be unveiled closer to the event.
The program aims to tap into the thriving IP remake market, which has blossomed in recent years, in large part thanks to increased investment from global streaming services.
European feature film properties that have done well on the remake market...
- 3/27/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Orange Studio has boarded true-crime-tinged psychological thriller “An Ordinary Case” and will launch sales at this week’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris. Top-lined, co-written and directed by French cinema stalwart Daniel Auteuil, this pulled-from-the-headlines drama also boasts “Borgen” and “Westworld” star Sidse Babett Knudsen alongside acclaimed actor Grégory Gadebois (“An Officer and a Spy”).
Auteuil adapted the feature from the work of Jean-Yves Moyart – a jurist-turned-blogger-turned-bestselling author who wrote of his experiences in the French legal system – and will star as Jean Monier, a disillusioned lawyer defending a man accused of murdering his wife. While all signs point to the accused’s guilt, Monier remains steadfast in his presumption of innocence. What begins as an ordinary case turns out to be anything but.
Following in the footsteps of Alice Diop’s Venice and César winner “Saint Omer,” of Cédric Kahn’s Cannes-acclaimed “The Goldman Case,” and of Justine Triet’s...
Auteuil adapted the feature from the work of Jean-Yves Moyart – a jurist-turned-blogger-turned-bestselling author who wrote of his experiences in the French legal system – and will star as Jean Monier, a disillusioned lawyer defending a man accused of murdering his wife. While all signs point to the accused’s guilt, Monier remains steadfast in his presumption of innocence. What begins as an ordinary case turns out to be anything but.
Following in the footsteps of Alice Diop’s Venice and César winner “Saint Omer,” of Cédric Kahn’s Cannes-acclaimed “The Goldman Case,” and of Justine Triet’s...
- 1/15/2024
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
At the 2022 Oscars, Sian Heder won Best Adapted Screenplay for “Coda,” her adaptation of the French film “La Famille Bélier.” “Coda” also claimed Best Picture, thereby becoming the fifth remake to win the top Oscar. In 2021 playwright Florian Zeller shared in the Oscar win for Best Adapted Screenplay with Christopher Hampton for bring his stage hit “The Father” to the screen. In his directorial debut Zeller bagged Anthony Hopkins his second Best Actor Oscar. (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2024 Oscar predictions for Best Adapted Screenplay.)
Screen versions of stage works had won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars 15 times before. The most recent of these was in 2017 when “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney prevailed for adapting the latter’s un-produced play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.” Prior to that you have to go all the way back to 1989 when Alfred Uhry won for adapting...
Screen versions of stage works had won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars 15 times before. The most recent of these was in 2017 when “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney prevailed for adapting the latter’s un-produced play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.” Prior to that you have to go all the way back to 1989 when Alfred Uhry won for adapting...
- 1/11/2024
- by Paul Sheehan and Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Independent Artist Group has signed Troy Kotsur, the actor-director best known for his historic Oscar win, as part of Apple TV+’s drama, Coda.
With his Supporting Actor win for the film written and directed by Sian Heder, Kotsur became the first Deaf male to win an acting award on Hollywood’s biggest night. A film of major consequence, with regard to representation of the deaf community on screen, Coda adapted the French film La Famille Bélier to tell the story of Ruby (Emilia Jones), a Coda (or “child of deaf adult”) who serves as an interpreter for the members of her Boston family.
Kotsur memorably portrayed Ruby’s irreverent father Frank, a fisherman initially unsupportive of his daughter’s decision to pursue an education in music, who comes around in the end. The actor swept the ’21-’22 awards season with additional Best Supporting Actor wins at the BAFTA,...
With his Supporting Actor win for the film written and directed by Sian Heder, Kotsur became the first Deaf male to win an acting award on Hollywood’s biggest night. A film of major consequence, with regard to representation of the deaf community on screen, Coda adapted the French film La Famille Bélier to tell the story of Ruby (Emilia Jones), a Coda (or “child of deaf adult”) who serves as an interpreter for the members of her Boston family.
Kotsur memorably portrayed Ruby’s irreverent father Frank, a fisherman initially unsupportive of his daughter’s decision to pursue an education in music, who comes around in the end. The actor swept the ’21-’22 awards season with additional Best Supporting Actor wins at the BAFTA,...
- 1/10/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
“Poor Things,” “Oppenheimer,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “American Fiction,” “All of Us Strangers,” and “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” all received Best Adapted Screenplay bids from the Critics Choice Awards thus giving their Oscar hopes in this category a timely boost. Some of them were lauded even further at the Golden Globes, which nominated “Poor Things,” “Oppenheimer,” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” alongside “Barbie,” “Past Lives,” and “Anatomy of Fall” in a combined Best Screenplay category.
So, those are the preferences of those two awards groups. But what about the tastes of the academy? Well, below is a chart detailing the last 10 Oscar winners for Best Adapted Screenplay. We’re going to break this down to see what the academy likes and try to apply the findings to this year’s race.
As you can see, novels are the academy’s favorite source material, accounting for...
So, those are the preferences of those two awards groups. But what about the tastes of the academy? Well, below is a chart detailing the last 10 Oscar winners for Best Adapted Screenplay. We’re going to break this down to see what the academy likes and try to apply the findings to this year’s race.
As you can see, novels are the academy’s favorite source material, accounting for...
- 12/27/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Coda and Source Code producer Vendôme Pictures has appointed Kathryn Thal as Senior Vice President of Development and Production.
Thal will be based in LA with a remit to expand the Paris-based company’s connection to the U.S. market. In the new role, Thal will oversee all English-language film and TV projects from the development stage to production and delivery.
She will report to Vendôme founder, chairman and CEO Philippe Rousselet and co-ceo Fabrice Gianfermi, effective immediately.
Thal joins from Black Bear, where she was a Vice President and worked closely with the production and management teams. She was part of the producing team for Scott Frank’s Monsieur Spade starring Clive Owen and also worked closely on developing projects with Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game), Johan Renck (Chernobyl) and Kyle Killen (Halo).
Prior to Black Bear, Thal worked at Anonymous Content, Hunting Lane, ICM Partners, HBO and Netflix.
Thal will be based in LA with a remit to expand the Paris-based company’s connection to the U.S. market. In the new role, Thal will oversee all English-language film and TV projects from the development stage to production and delivery.
She will report to Vendôme founder, chairman and CEO Philippe Rousselet and co-ceo Fabrice Gianfermi, effective immediately.
Thal joins from Black Bear, where she was a Vice President and worked closely with the production and management teams. She was part of the producing team for Scott Frank’s Monsieur Spade starring Clive Owen and also worked closely on developing projects with Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game), Johan Renck (Chernobyl) and Kyle Killen (Halo).
Prior to Black Bear, Thal worked at Anonymous Content, Hunting Lane, ICM Partners, HBO and Netflix.
- 11/14/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
AFM slate also includes a blend of local drama, comedy and thriller titles.
Orange Studio will kick off sales at AFM for Like A Prince, the debut feature from actor Ali Marhyar about a star boxer attempting a career comeback in a French chateau after a bar fight gone wrong.
Like A Prince stars Ahmed Sylla as the titular athlete who is sentenced to community service at the prestigious Château de Chambord following a bar fight that injures him and threatens his career. There, amidst horses, strange bosses and knight-inspired stunts, he meets a foster child with a knack for...
Orange Studio will kick off sales at AFM for Like A Prince, the debut feature from actor Ali Marhyar about a star boxer attempting a career comeback in a French chateau after a bar fight gone wrong.
Like A Prince stars Ahmed Sylla as the titular athlete who is sentenced to community service at the prestigious Château de Chambord following a bar fight that injures him and threatens his career. There, amidst horses, strange bosses and knight-inspired stunts, he meets a foster child with a knack for...
- 10/30/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Florian Zeller, the Oscar-winning director and playwright of “The Father” and “The Son,” received the Medal of Honor, France’s highest decoration, at an intimate ceremony in Paris on Wednesday.
The event, hosted in the gardens of the French authors and composers guild (Sacd), gathered a flurry of talent and luminaries from the worlds of film, TV, theater and literature — reflecting the breadth of Zeller’s body of work. Zeller was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor by France President Emmanuel Macron.
Guests included Isabelle Huppert, Pierre Arditi, Catherine Frot and Elodie Navarre who have starred in Zeller’s plays; Christopher Hampton, with whom he shares a best adapted screenplay Oscar for “The Father;” “Simone” actor Elsa Zylberstein; Mediawan boss Pierre-Antoine Capton, with whom he launched the L.A.-based company Blue Morning Pictures; Victoria Bedos (“La famille Belier”); Orange Studio’s Kristina Zimmermann and Sebastien Cauchon, who distributed...
The event, hosted in the gardens of the French authors and composers guild (Sacd), gathered a flurry of talent and luminaries from the worlds of film, TV, theater and literature — reflecting the breadth of Zeller’s body of work. Zeller was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor by France President Emmanuel Macron.
Guests included Isabelle Huppert, Pierre Arditi, Catherine Frot and Elodie Navarre who have starred in Zeller’s plays; Christopher Hampton, with whom he shares a best adapted screenplay Oscar for “The Father;” “Simone” actor Elsa Zylberstein; Mediawan boss Pierre-Antoine Capton, with whom he launched the L.A.-based company Blue Morning Pictures; Victoria Bedos (“La famille Belier”); Orange Studio’s Kristina Zimmermann and Sebastien Cauchon, who distributed...
- 7/6/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Sarah Polley won her first Oscar for her Women Talking.
“First of all, just want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words women and talking with so close together like that,” she said as her film won the award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay).
“Miriam Toews wrote an essential novel about a radical democracy in which people who don’t agree on every single issue managed to sit together in a room and carve out a way forward together free of violence. They do so not just by talking but also by listening,” she added.
Related: ‘Women Talking’: Read The Screenplay By Sarah Polley That Takes On Remaking “A Broken World”
Women Talking, which came from Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing, beat All Quiet on the Western Front, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Living and Top Gun: Maverick in the category.
The win prevented...
“First of all, just want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words women and talking with so close together like that,” she said as her film won the award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay).
“Miriam Toews wrote an essential novel about a radical democracy in which people who don’t agree on every single issue managed to sit together in a room and carve out a way forward together free of violence. They do so not just by talking but also by listening,” she added.
Related: ‘Women Talking’: Read The Screenplay By Sarah Polley That Takes On Remaking “A Broken World”
Women Talking, which came from Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing, beat All Quiet on the Western Front, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Living and Top Gun: Maverick in the category.
The win prevented...
- 3/13/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
La Famille Bélier is the original French film adapted to Sian Heder’s Oscar-winning Coda.
Paris-based sales company Other Angle has boarded Victoria Bedos’ coming-of-age identity comedy-drama Dressed To Impress.
Bedos is the creator and co-writer of La Famille Bélier, the original French film adapted to Sian Heder’s Oscar-winning Coda that sold more than 7.45 million tickets during its 2014 run in France.
Dressed To Impress (French title: La Plus Belle Pour Aller Danser) is produced by Hélène Cases of France’s Lionceau Films and Universal will release the film in France on April 26th. Other Angle will kick off sales for the title at EFM.
Paris-based sales company Other Angle has boarded Victoria Bedos’ coming-of-age identity comedy-drama Dressed To Impress.
Bedos is the creator and co-writer of La Famille Bélier, the original French film adapted to Sian Heder’s Oscar-winning Coda that sold more than 7.45 million tickets during its 2014 run in France.
Dressed To Impress (French title: La Plus Belle Pour Aller Danser) is produced by Hélène Cases of France’s Lionceau Films and Universal will release the film in France on April 26th. Other Angle will kick off sales for the title at EFM.
- 2/17/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
When, at the Sundance Film Festival two years ago, Apple bought worldwide rights to Sian Heder’s Coda for a reported 25 million, it triggered panic across the independent film industry.
International distributors who had pre-bought the movie — Heder’s remake of 2014 French hit La Famille Bélier was a top seller for Pathé at Cannes’ Marché du Film a year earlier — thought the Apple deal might signal the end of their business model. Why bother taking the up-front risk by investing in movie scripts and talent packages — the core activity at most international film markets — if a deep-pocketed tech company can come in after the fact and buy up the movie when it is finished? In the wake of the Coda deal, there was talk of sales companies and Hollywood talent agencies wanting to insert mandatory buyback clauses into indie distribution contracts, treating independent buyers, from their perspective, as little more...
International distributors who had pre-bought the movie — Heder’s remake of 2014 French hit La Famille Bélier was a top seller for Pathé at Cannes’ Marché du Film a year earlier — thought the Apple deal might signal the end of their business model. Why bother taking the up-front risk by investing in movie scripts and talent packages — the core activity at most international film markets — if a deep-pocketed tech company can come in after the fact and buy up the movie when it is finished? In the wake of the Coda deal, there was talk of sales companies and Hollywood talent agencies wanting to insert mandatory buyback clauses into indie distribution contracts, treating independent buyers, from their perspective, as little more...
- 2/16/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At the 2022 Oscars, Sian Heder won Best Adapted Screenplay for “Coda,” her adaptation of the French film “La Famille Bélier.” “Coda” also claimed Best Picture, thereby becoming the fifth remake to win the top Oscar. In 2021 playwright Florian Zeller shared in the Oscar win for Best Adapted Screenplay with Christopher Hampton for bring his stage hit “The Father” to the screen. In his directorial debut Zeller bagged Anthony Hopkins his second Best Actor Oscar. He returns to the race this year with an adaptation of his play “The Son.” (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2023 Oscars Best Adapted Screenplay predictions.)
Screen versions of stage works had won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars 15 times before. The most recent of these was in 2017 when “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney prevailed for adapting the latter’s un-produced play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.” Prior to that you...
Screen versions of stage works had won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars 15 times before. The most recent of these was in 2017 when “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney prevailed for adapting the latter’s un-produced play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.” Prior to that you...
- 2/6/2023
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
French sales company has unveiled its Rendez-Vous in Paris slate.
Snd, the feature film arm of France’s M6 broadcasting group, has sold Lisa Azuelos’ globe-trotting drama The Book Of Wonders and Eric Barbier’s adventure Princes Of The Desert to a slew of territories worldwide ahead of the titles’ world premieres at the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris (Jan 10-17).
Snd will also market premiere Eric Besnard’s A Great Friend, Cécilia Rouard’s Killing Blue and Pierre-François Martin-Laval’s Jeff & Jean-Marc’s Adventures at the Rendez-Vous, and unveil first footage of Guillaume Nicloux’s The Baby.
Snd has...
Snd, the feature film arm of France’s M6 broadcasting group, has sold Lisa Azuelos’ globe-trotting drama The Book Of Wonders and Eric Barbier’s adventure Princes Of The Desert to a slew of territories worldwide ahead of the titles’ world premieres at the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris (Jan 10-17).
Snd will also market premiere Eric Besnard’s A Great Friend, Cécilia Rouard’s Killing Blue and Pierre-François Martin-Laval’s Jeff & Jean-Marc’s Adventures at the Rendez-Vous, and unveil first footage of Guillaume Nicloux’s The Baby.
Snd has...
- 1/6/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
“Coda” producer Philippe Rousselet’s next movie “Maestro” has been sold to major territories by Orange Studio which hosted a market screening at Cannes.
“Maestro” is adapted from Joseph Cesar’s Oscar-nominated, Cannes-prizewinning Israeli film “Footnote.” The movie is directed by Bruno Chiche and stars Yvan Attal, Pierre Arditi, Miou-Miou and Pascale Arbillot. “Maestro” follows a father and a son, The Dumars, who are music conductors.
Orange Studio has sold the film to leading distributors around the world, including in Japon (Gaga), Canada (Az), Israel (Lev Cinema), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Benelux (Vertigo), Germany (Wild Bunch Germany), Italy (Bim), Spain (Vertigo) and South Korea (T-cast). Other territories are in advanced negotiations. The film will be released on Dec. 7 by Apollo Films Distribution.
Rousselet, one of France��s top producers who recently won an Oscar for “Coda,” described “Maestro” has an incredibly moving story which isn’t just about music but also...
“Maestro” is adapted from Joseph Cesar’s Oscar-nominated, Cannes-prizewinning Israeli film “Footnote.” The movie is directed by Bruno Chiche and stars Yvan Attal, Pierre Arditi, Miou-Miou and Pascale Arbillot. “Maestro” follows a father and a son, The Dumars, who are music conductors.
Orange Studio has sold the film to leading distributors around the world, including in Japon (Gaga), Canada (Az), Israel (Lev Cinema), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Benelux (Vertigo), Germany (Wild Bunch Germany), Italy (Bim), Spain (Vertigo) and South Korea (T-cast). Other territories are in advanced negotiations. The film will be released on Dec. 7 by Apollo Films Distribution.
Rousselet, one of France��s top producers who recently won an Oscar for “Coda,” described “Maestro” has an incredibly moving story which isn’t just about music but also...
- 5/24/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
They were producers on Sian Heder’s Oscar best-picture winner ‘Coda’
Need to know: Co-CEOs Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi are currently flying high as the producers of Sian Heder’s Oscar best-picture winner Coda. They were the first European producers to achieve this feat since Thomas Langmann with The Artist in 2011. Paris-born Rousselet, who has had a foot on both sides of the Atlantic since early in his career, created the group in the early 1990s. He was joined by Gianfermi in 2000. It produces French-language films under the banners of Vendôme Films and subsidiaries Jerico Films and Prelude,...
Need to know: Co-CEOs Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi are currently flying high as the producers of Sian Heder’s Oscar best-picture winner Coda. They were the first European producers to achieve this feat since Thomas Langmann with The Artist in 2011. Paris-born Rousselet, who has had a foot on both sides of the Atlantic since early in his career, created the group in the early 1990s. He was joined by Gianfermi in 2000. It produces French-language films under the banners of Vendôme Films and subsidiaries Jerico Films and Prelude,...
- 5/15/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Sian Heder’s heartwarming family film “Coda” not only scored a historic Oscar for Deaf actor Troy Kotsur, it’s also the first English-language remake of a French film to win the best picture Academy Award.
Acquired by Apple Studios at the 2021 Sundance in a record-breaking 25 million deal, “Coda” is based on the 2014 French box office hit “La Famille Bélier,” about a teenage girl with a singing talent who is the only hearing member of a Deaf family. Like most remakes, the underdog movie could have died off after sitting on a shelf for too long had it not been for the all-star team of French producers with U.S. ties who shepherded the project.
Besides Jérôme Seydoux at Pathé Films, which fully financed the movie, “Coda’s” lead producers are Philippe Rousselet, who worked for many years at Warner Bros. in L.A. and produced “Lord of War” and...
Acquired by Apple Studios at the 2021 Sundance in a record-breaking 25 million deal, “Coda” is based on the 2014 French box office hit “La Famille Bélier,” about a teenage girl with a singing talent who is the only hearing member of a Deaf family. Like most remakes, the underdog movie could have died off after sitting on a shelf for too long had it not been for the all-star team of French producers with U.S. ties who shepherded the project.
Besides Jérôme Seydoux at Pathé Films, which fully financed the movie, “Coda’s” lead producers are Philippe Rousselet, who worked for many years at Warner Bros. in L.A. and produced “Lord of War” and...
- 5/10/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Pathé may be one of France’s oldest film groups, but it is young at heart. The only French film company that is still fully involved in exhibition, production, distribution and sales, Pathé has been confronting the challenges wrought by the pandemic and the arrival of streamers with bold steps and ambitious new projects. During the Cannes Film Festival, the company will receive Variety’s Intl. Achievement in Film Award.
In the past two years, the family-owned film group, which is led by the visionary businessman Jérôme Seydoux, saw its “Coda” win three Oscars for family drama; greenlit the country’s biggest-budgeted movies in recent history, “Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom” (75 million) and the two-part adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ masterpiece, “The Three Musketeers — D’Artagnan” and “The Three Musketeers — Milady” (75 million); it ventured into TV series; and forged bonds with streaming services, including Netflix and Apple TV+.
“When theaters were shut down,...
In the past two years, the family-owned film group, which is led by the visionary businessman Jérôme Seydoux, saw its “Coda” win three Oscars for family drama; greenlit the country’s biggest-budgeted movies in recent history, “Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom” (75 million) and the two-part adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ masterpiece, “The Three Musketeers — D’Artagnan” and “The Three Musketeers — Milady” (75 million); it ventured into TV series; and forged bonds with streaming services, including Netflix and Apple TV+.
“When theaters were shut down,...
- 5/10/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Variety will honor French entertainment giant Pathé with its Intl. Achievement in Film Award on May 20 at the Cannes Film Festival.
Pathé – which is the only French film group still fully involved in exhibition, production, distribution and sales – is family-owned and run by Jérôme Seydoux. Earlier this year, “Coda,” the remake of the company’s “La Famille Bélier,” took three Oscars, including for best picture.
In the past two years, the company has greenlit big budget features “Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom” and the two-part adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ masterpiece, “The Three Musketeers – D’Artagnan” and “The Three Musketeers – Milady.”
Pathé is venturing into television production and signed pacts with Netflix and Apple TV+.
During the pandemic, Pathé forged ahead with films for theatrical release, and Seydoux, who has been involved in greenlighting big-budget epics, wants to maintain the company’s high standards whether in film or TV.
Pathé...
Pathé – which is the only French film group still fully involved in exhibition, production, distribution and sales – is family-owned and run by Jérôme Seydoux. Earlier this year, “Coda,” the remake of the company’s “La Famille Bélier,” took three Oscars, including for best picture.
In the past two years, the company has greenlit big budget features “Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom” and the two-part adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ masterpiece, “The Three Musketeers – D’Artagnan” and “The Three Musketeers – Milady.”
Pathé is venturing into television production and signed pacts with Netflix and Apple TV+.
During the pandemic, Pathé forged ahead with films for theatrical release, and Seydoux, who has been involved in greenlighting big-budget epics, wants to maintain the company’s high standards whether in film or TV.
Pathé...
- 5/6/2022
- by Shalini Dore and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Daniel Durant, who starred alongside Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur and Eugenio Derbez in Apple’s 2022 Best Picture Oscar winner Coda, has signed with Buchwald for representation.
The dramedy from writer-director Sian Heder, based on the French film La Famille Bélier, tells the story of Ruby Rossi (Jones), a Coda (or “child of deaf adult”) who serves as an interpreter for the members of her Boston family. At a pivotal moment in her life, the character finds herself torn between the role she plays, in connecting her loved ones to the outside world—above all, with regard to their fishing business—and her pursuit of an education in music. Durant portrayed Ruby’s brother, Leo—the eldest son to Jackie (Matlin) and Frank (Kotsur).
Coda won Sundance’s Audience Award, Directing Award and Grand Jury Prize, upon its world premiere in U.S. Dramatic competition at the 2021 festival,...
The dramedy from writer-director Sian Heder, based on the French film La Famille Bélier, tells the story of Ruby Rossi (Jones), a Coda (or “child of deaf adult”) who serves as an interpreter for the members of her Boston family. At a pivotal moment in her life, the character finds herself torn between the role she plays, in connecting her loved ones to the outside world—above all, with regard to their fishing business—and her pursuit of an education in music. Durant portrayed Ruby’s brother, Leo—the eldest son to Jackie (Matlin) and Frank (Kotsur).
Coda won Sundance’s Audience Award, Directing Award and Grand Jury Prize, upon its world premiere in U.S. Dramatic competition at the 2021 festival,...
- 4/25/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Apple CEO Tim Cook will deliver Gallaudet University’s commencement address at the Washington DC campus on May 13. Cook responded in the affirmative to a Twitter invitation by Molly Feanny, the undergraduate student speaker at the university’s 2022 commencement. Noting that Gallaudet is an Apple campus, she expressed gratitude for the company’s support of the movie Coda, following its historic wins at the recent Academy Awards.
Thanks so much Molly, I’d be honored! See you there!
Thanks so much Molly, I’d be honored! See you there!
- 4/16/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Emilia Jones as Ruby in “Coda,” premiering globally on Apple TV+ on August 13, 2021. Photo courtesy of Apple TV+
Coda is writer/director Sian Heder’s charming coming of age comedy/drama about the daughter of a family of scrappy, independent fishermen, who all happen to be deaf except her. Coda means “child of deaf adults” but it also has a musical meaning, making it the perfect title for a film about a teen with a passion for singing, something her family neither hears nor comprehends.
With deaf actors in the roles of the girl’s brother and parents, including Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin as her feisty mother, and wonderful performances all around, writer/director Sian Heder’s often-funny, warm tale of a family, different from the ordinary and yet not, is sure to bring smiles and delight audiences.
Coda has been praised by deaf communities both for casting deaf actors in...
Coda is writer/director Sian Heder’s charming coming of age comedy/drama about the daughter of a family of scrappy, independent fishermen, who all happen to be deaf except her. Coda means “child of deaf adults” but it also has a musical meaning, making it the perfect title for a film about a teen with a passion for singing, something her family neither hears nor comprehends.
With deaf actors in the roles of the girl’s brother and parents, including Oscar-winner Marlee Matlin as her feisty mother, and wonderful performances all around, writer/director Sian Heder’s often-funny, warm tale of a family, different from the ordinary and yet not, is sure to bring smiles and delight audiences.
Coda has been praised by deaf communities both for casting deaf actors in...
- 4/1/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The morning after the Oscars, “Coda” producer Philippe Rousselet was ready to get some sleep. “In the last few weeks, as long as we were in the challenger’s seat, I was perfectly fine,” he said. But after a string of wins, “you start losing sleep, you go from the challenger’s seat to almost the frontrunner. And, if we lose, we’re going to be the losers overnight. When we had already won so much.”
Now, more people than ever will see “Coda,” which returns to theatrical release April 1 after winning Oscars for writer-director Sian Heder for Adapted Screenplay, Troy Kotsur for Supporting Actor, and Best Picture. “Today the movie is being seen everywhere,” said Rousselet. “People are very much aware of the movie. I have about 550 text messages this morning.”
The film’s Academy Awards campaign began at virtual Sundance 2021. Buyers didn’t need a theater to see...
Now, more people than ever will see “Coda,” which returns to theatrical release April 1 after winning Oscars for writer-director Sian Heder for Adapted Screenplay, Troy Kotsur for Supporting Actor, and Best Picture. “Today the movie is being seen everywhere,” said Rousselet. “People are very much aware of the movie. I have about 550 text messages this morning.”
The film’s Academy Awards campaign began at virtual Sundance 2021. Buyers didn’t need a theater to see...
- 3/31/2022
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Like Muhammad Ali playing rope-a-dope to beat George Foreman in 1974, Apple’s “Coda” took a laid-back, deceptive route to its Oscar Best Picture win on Sunday night. The indie drama, which managed to retain the aura of an underdog even after it was acquired by the world’s most valuable company, was considered the favorite to win for one week out of the entire seven-month awards season – but that one week was the final week, and it somehow became both the Best Picture nominee that was released the earliest and the one that for many voters watched the latest.
It was an undercover campaign that didn’t turn up the heat until it needed to – but when that time came, it had the resources to pull off a victory that had seemed completely far-fetched only a couple of weeks earlier.
Some reports have estimated that Apple’s awards campaign cost around $10 million,...
It was an undercover campaign that didn’t turn up the heat until it needed to – but when that time came, it had the resources to pull off a victory that had seemed completely far-fetched only a couple of weeks earlier.
Some reports have estimated that Apple’s awards campaign cost around $10 million,...
- 3/29/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
“Coda” made Oscars history for Apple TV+ Sunday night when it became the first movie distributed by a streaming service to win Best Picture. But the film’s win is also a big moment for indie film: “Coda” was independently financed and produced, sold to Apple at Sundance, and marks the first time a Sundance premiere has won Hollywood’s top prize in the festival’s 44-year history.
Director Sian Heder and her producers went backstage at the Oscars after “Coda” won both Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, in addition to star Troy Kotsur winning Best Supporting Actor. Heder was quick to highlight the significance of the moment for indie filmmakers. In fact, Heder said that she was, at one time, convinced the film wouldn’t even be able to get made because of her commitment to decisions like casting deaf actors like Kotsur.
“This is a huge moment for independent film,...
Director Sian Heder and her producers went backstage at the Oscars after “Coda” won both Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, in addition to star Troy Kotsur winning Best Supporting Actor. Heder was quick to highlight the significance of the moment for indie filmmakers. In fact, Heder said that she was, at one time, convinced the film wouldn’t even be able to get made because of her commitment to decisions like casting deaf actors like Kotsur.
“This is a huge moment for independent film,...
- 3/28/2022
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
"Coda" made history at the 94th annual Academy Awards, becoming the first streaming exclusive to win the Best Picture Oscar, as well as the first movie with several deaf actors in lead roles to take home the prize. A loose U.S. remake of the 2014 French film "La Famille Bélier," writer-director Sian Heder's coming-of-age dramedy is also the first Best Picture winner to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the Audience Award, the U.S. Grand Jury Prize, a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble, and Best Director in the U.S. Dramatic section at the 2021 iteration...
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- 3/28/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
France’s president Emmanuel Macron has celebrated the win of Coda at the Oscars last night by tweeting his congratulations to the filmmakers involved.
Sian Heder’s Apple TV+ movie is a remake of the French film La Famille Bélier, which was box office hit back in 2014.
French producer Philippe Rousselet, one of the creators of the original film, was behind the remake alongside Patrick Wachsberger, Fabrice Gianfermi, and Jerôme Seydoux.
Along with its Best Picture win, the film also scooped Best Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur. The result made Apple TV+ the first streamer to win the Academy’s top prize.
“The film Coda, [an] adaptation of The Bélier family, won the Oscar for best film in Hollywood!” Read Macron’s Twitter statement, translated from the original French. “A big congratulations to its producers, French, and to the teams who make it a success abroad. With this film, they look...
Sian Heder’s Apple TV+ movie is a remake of the French film La Famille Bélier, which was box office hit back in 2014.
French producer Philippe Rousselet, one of the creators of the original film, was behind the remake alongside Patrick Wachsberger, Fabrice Gianfermi, and Jerôme Seydoux.
Along with its Best Picture win, the film also scooped Best Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur. The result made Apple TV+ the first streamer to win the Academy’s top prize.
“The film Coda, [an] adaptation of The Bélier family, won the Oscar for best film in Hollywood!” Read Macron’s Twitter statement, translated from the original French. “A big congratulations to its producers, French, and to the teams who make it a success abroad. With this film, they look...
- 3/28/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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“Coda” won the Oscar for best picture Sunday night, becoming the first Sundance film to take home the night’s most coveted honor — and also helping Apple make history for becoming the first streamer to win best picture.
The Apple Original film, which features a predominately Deaf cast, enjoyed a successful awards season all the way through Sunday night; Tony Katsur made history at the SAG awards after becoming the first Deaf nominee and winner to take home the prize for best supporting actor, going on to nab the same award at the Oscars. His win marks the second time a Deaf actor has ever landed an acting Oscar, following Katsur’s “Coda” co-star Marlee Matlin’s win in 1986. In total, the film took home three Oscars Sunday night,...
“Coda” won the Oscar for best picture Sunday night, becoming the first Sundance film to take home the night’s most coveted honor — and also helping Apple make history for becoming the first streamer to win best picture.
The Apple Original film, which features a predominately Deaf cast, enjoyed a successful awards season all the way through Sunday night; Tony Katsur made history at the SAG awards after becoming the first Deaf nominee and winner to take home the prize for best supporting actor, going on to nab the same award at the Oscars. His win marks the second time a Deaf actor has ever landed an acting Oscar, following Katsur’s “Coda” co-star Marlee Matlin’s win in 1986. In total, the film took home three Oscars Sunday night,...
- 3/28/2022
- by Anna Tingley
- Variety Film + TV
On March 27, 2022, “Coda” made history at the Oscars by being the first film from a streaming company (in this case Apple Original Films) to win Best Picture. (See the Oscars winners list.) In addition, Troy Kotsur entered the record books on his own accord by becoming the first Deaf male actor to win an Oscar. “Coda” is now the seventh Best Picture winner in Academy Awards history to go undefeated on Oscar night after winning all three of its categories: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Kotsur) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Sian Heder). Read on for how to watch “Coda.”
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What is “Coda” about?
“Coda” tells the story of the tight knit Rossi family who all work in the fishing industry in Massachusetts. Mother Jackie (Marlee Matlin), father Frank (Kotsur) and...
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What is “Coda” about?
“Coda” tells the story of the tight knit Rossi family who all work in the fishing industry in Massachusetts. Mother Jackie (Marlee Matlin), father Frank (Kotsur) and...
- 3/28/2022
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Coda capped off the wild final hour of Sunday’s 94th Oscars with a history-making win for Best Picture, making Apple the first streaming winner in the marquee category.
How The ‘Coda’ Family Delivered The Year’s Most Meaningful Best Picture Contender
In another milestone, Coda was also the first film with a predominantly deaf cast to win the ultimate prize. The crowd at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre expressed its affection with an ovation both with applause and sign-language. The film’s climactic win capped off weeks of momentum as it climbed to the position of front-runner for the top honor on the strength of multiple guild wins.
“Thank you to the Academy for letting our Coda make history tonight,” producer Philippe Rousselet said in accepting the award.
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He also gave a shout-out...
How The ‘Coda’ Family Delivered The Year’s Most Meaningful Best Picture Contender
In another milestone, Coda was also the first film with a predominantly deaf cast to win the ultimate prize. The crowd at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre expressed its affection with an ovation both with applause and sign-language. The film’s climactic win capped off weeks of momentum as it climbed to the position of front-runner for the top honor on the strength of multiple guild wins.
“Thank you to the Academy for letting our Coda make history tonight,” producer Philippe Rousselet said in accepting the award.
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He also gave a shout-out...
- 3/28/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
The drama picked up three major awards, including best picture, while best actor winner Will Smith had a viral confrontation
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Coda has been named this year’s best picture at an Oscars ceremony that featured an unusual confrontation between Will Smith and Chris Rock.
The Apple TV+ drama, bought from 2021’s Sundance film festival for a record-breaking $25m, became the first film from a streamer to win the award. It’s a remake of French film La Famille Bélier, focusing on the only hearing member of a deaf family.
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Coda has been named this year’s best picture at an Oscars ceremony that featured an unusual confrontation between Will Smith and Chris Rock.
The Apple TV+ drama, bought from 2021’s Sundance film festival for a record-breaking $25m, became the first film from a streamer to win the award. It’s a remake of French film La Famille Bélier, focusing on the only hearing member of a deaf family.
- 3/28/2022
- by Benjamin Lee in New York
- The Guardian - Film News
“Coda” made history on Oscar Sunday and won the Academy Award for Best Picture, a first for both Apple Studios and the Sundance Film Festival.
In addition to Best Picture, “Coda” write-director Sian Heder won for Best Adapted Screenplay and Troy Kotsur won for Best Supporting Actor, becoming the first deaf male actor to win an Oscar.
“Ow wow, thank you to the Academy for letting our Coda make history tonight,” producer Philippe Rousselet said, who directed the 2019 on which “Coda” is based.
Producer Patrick Wachsberger added: “I really want to thank the academy for recognizing a movie of love and family on this difficult time that we need today and this is ‘Coda.'”
The film also picked up the SAG Award for Best Ensemble and the PGA Award for Best Picture, both signifiers of potential Oscar glory to come.
Awards aside, “Coda” from writer-director Sian Heder, resonates as...
In addition to Best Picture, “Coda” write-director Sian Heder won for Best Adapted Screenplay and Troy Kotsur won for Best Supporting Actor, becoming the first deaf male actor to win an Oscar.
“Ow wow, thank you to the Academy for letting our Coda make history tonight,” producer Philippe Rousselet said, who directed the 2019 on which “Coda” is based.
Producer Patrick Wachsberger added: “I really want to thank the academy for recognizing a movie of love and family on this difficult time that we need today and this is ‘Coda.'”
The film also picked up the SAG Award for Best Ensemble and the PGA Award for Best Picture, both signifiers of potential Oscar glory to come.
Awards aside, “Coda” from writer-director Sian Heder, resonates as...
- 3/28/2022
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Coda on Sunday night beat The Power of the Dog to the punch to become the first movie that premiered on a streaming service to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
An English-language remake of the 2014 French film La Famille Bélier, Coda was day-and-date released in theaters and on Apple TV+ on Aug. 13, 2021.
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- 3/28/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Apple made history by nabbing Hollywood’s most coveted honor, as “Coda” won the Oscar for best picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards.
Apple Original Films’ “Coda,” which has a predominantly Deaf cast, marks the first time a streaming service has won the best picture Oscar — with Apple TV Plus beating rival Netflix to the punch. “Coda” took the top prize over Netflix’s “The Power of the Dog” from director Jane Campion, which was the other leading contender in the category.
In addition, “Coda” star Troy Kotsur won the supporting actor trophy — the first time a Deaf male actor has landed an acting Oscar, and the second Deaf actor ever to do so after “Coda” co-star Marlee Matlin won for “Children of a Lesser God” in 1986. In the film’s third win of the night, “Coda” director Siân Heder won in the adapted screenplay category.
The three Oscars for...
Apple Original Films’ “Coda,” which has a predominantly Deaf cast, marks the first time a streaming service has won the best picture Oscar — with Apple TV Plus beating rival Netflix to the punch. “Coda” took the top prize over Netflix’s “The Power of the Dog” from director Jane Campion, which was the other leading contender in the category.
In addition, “Coda” star Troy Kotsur won the supporting actor trophy — the first time a Deaf male actor has landed an acting Oscar, and the second Deaf actor ever to do so after “Coda” co-star Marlee Matlin won for “Children of a Lesser God” in 1986. In the film’s third win of the night, “Coda” director Siân Heder won in the adapted screenplay category.
The three Oscars for...
- 3/28/2022
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Sian Heder brought the Oscar audience to its feet winning her first Academy Award for adapting Coda (Child Of Deaf Adult), from the 2014 French film La famille Bélier written by Victoria Bedos. This is the first Oscar and nomination for Heder.
During her acceptance speech (accompanied by an Asl interpreter), she talks about the process of getting the film made. “This was an independent film and incredibly hard to get made so I want to thank my team, my producers and all of you for believing in me, and how I wanted to make this movie,” she said.
The director then acknowledges that the journey to getting this film where it is today, started at Sundance 2021.
“I want to thank Sundance for starting this journey. I want to thank Apple for being amazing partners on this ride. Writing and making this movie was truly life changing as an artist and a human being.
During her acceptance speech (accompanied by an Asl interpreter), she talks about the process of getting the film made. “This was an independent film and incredibly hard to get made so I want to thank my team, my producers and all of you for believing in me, and how I wanted to make this movie,” she said.
The director then acknowledges that the journey to getting this film where it is today, started at Sundance 2021.
“I want to thank Sundance for starting this journey. I want to thank Apple for being amazing partners on this ride. Writing and making this movie was truly life changing as an artist and a human being.
- 3/28/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
“Coda,” writer-director Sian Heder’s big-hearted and barrier-breaking film, stands out for more than a few reasons. It premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival to immediate acclaim, scooping up four awards including the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, before selling to Apple for a record $25 million.
The film continued to win praise well past its debut in theaters and on Apple TV, culminating with this year’s Academy Awards where it won Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (Heder) and Best Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur, who became the first deaf male actor to win an Oscar. It also picked up the SAG Award for Best Ensemble and the PGA Award for Best Picture, both signifiers of potential Oscar glory to come.
Awards aside, “Coda” resonates as a loving depiction of a deaf family and their hearing daughter (“Coda” stands for “child of...
The film continued to win praise well past its debut in theaters and on Apple TV, culminating with this year’s Academy Awards where it won Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (Heder) and Best Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur, who became the first deaf male actor to win an Oscar. It also picked up the SAG Award for Best Ensemble and the PGA Award for Best Picture, both signifiers of potential Oscar glory to come.
Awards aside, “Coda” resonates as a loving depiction of a deaf family and their hearing daughter (“Coda” stands for “child of...
- 3/28/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
"Coda" star Troy Kotsur just made history at the 2022 Oscars. The 53-year-old actor is the first deaf man to be nominated and win an award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Kotsur took home the award for best actor in a supporting role on Sunday for "Coda," beating out Ciarán Hinds, Jesse Plemons, J.K. Simmons, and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
In his acceptance speech, Kotsur thanked the Academy for recognizing his work, as well as "Coda" director Sian Heder for bringing the deaf and hearing worlds together. "You are our bridge," he said onstage. "Your name will forever be on that bridge - Sian Heder bridge - here in Hollywood." Kotsur also dedicated his win to the deaf, disabled, and "Coda" communities, stating, "This is our moment."
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In "Coda," Katsur plays Frank, the father of Ruby (Emilia Jones...
In his acceptance speech, Kotsur thanked the Academy for recognizing his work, as well as "Coda" director Sian Heder for bringing the deaf and hearing worlds together. "You are our bridge," he said onstage. "Your name will forever be on that bridge - Sian Heder bridge - here in Hollywood." Kotsur also dedicated his win to the deaf, disabled, and "Coda" communities, stating, "This is our moment."
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In "Coda," Katsur plays Frank, the father of Ruby (Emilia Jones...
- 3/28/2022
- by Naledi Ushe
- Popsugar.com
Kotsur becomes the second deaf actor to win an Oscar, for his role in the film about the child of deaf parents, by Sian Heder
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Troy Kotsur has won the Oscar for best supporting actor at the 94th Academy Awards, currently under way at the Dolby theatre in Los Angeles.
Kotsur won the prize for his role as fisherman Frank Rossi in Coda, the deaf father of Emilia Jones’ Ruby – the “child of deaf adults” as alluded to in the title – and becomes only the second deaf actor to win an Oscar, after Marlee Matlin’s best actress award for Children of a Lesser God in 1987. Coda is a remake of 2014 French film La Famille Bélier and is written and directed by Sian Heder. Alongside Jones and Kotsur, it also features Matlin as Frank’s wife, Jackie.
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Troy Kotsur has won the Oscar for best supporting actor at the 94th Academy Awards, currently under way at the Dolby theatre in Los Angeles.
Kotsur won the prize for his role as fisherman Frank Rossi in Coda, the deaf father of Emilia Jones’ Ruby – the “child of deaf adults” as alluded to in the title – and becomes only the second deaf actor to win an Oscar, after Marlee Matlin’s best actress award for Children of a Lesser God in 1987. Coda is a remake of 2014 French film La Famille Bélier and is written and directed by Sian Heder. Alongside Jones and Kotsur, it also features Matlin as Frank’s wife, Jackie.
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- 3/28/2022
- by Andrew Pulver and Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
The films in contention for the 2022 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar are “Coda,” “Drive My Car,” “Dune,” “The Lost Daughter,” and “The Power of the Dog.” Our odds currently indicate that “The Power of the Dog” (17/5) will win the award, followed in order of likelihood by “Coda” (39/10), “The Lost Daughter” (4/1), “Drive My Car” (9/2), and “Dune” (9/2).
Seven of the eight individuals included in this year’s lineup are category newcomers, with Eric Roth (“Dune”) standing alone as the only veteran. He succeeded on his first outing as the writer of “Forrest Gump” (1995) and has since picked up bids for “The Insider” (2000), “Munich” (2006), “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2009), and “A Star Is Born” (2019). He shares this bid with first-time writing nominees Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve.
Roth’s half dozen nominations make him one of the three most-recognized adaptive writers alongside John Huston and only one step behind Billy Wilder. He may...
Seven of the eight individuals included in this year’s lineup are category newcomers, with Eric Roth (“Dune”) standing alone as the only veteran. He succeeded on his first outing as the writer of “Forrest Gump” (1995) and has since picked up bids for “The Insider” (2000), “Munich” (2006), “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2009), and “A Star Is Born” (2019). He shares this bid with first-time writing nominees Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve.
Roth’s half dozen nominations make him one of the three most-recognized adaptive writers alongside John Huston and only one step behind Billy Wilder. He may...
- 3/25/2022
- by Matthew Stewart
- Gold Derby
Apple Original Films’ “Coda” has skyrocketed up Gold Derby’s Oscar chart for Best Picture in the past several weeks. It’s currently tied with Netflix’s “The Power of the Dog” in the #1 position to win, and by the time you finish reading this article, it may have actually taken the lead. But is the heartwarming PGA, WGA and SAG Award winner hurt by the fact that it didn’t receive any below-the-line noms at the Academy Awards? Nope. Just ask “Ordinary People” (1980).
Exactly 41 years ago, “Ordinary People” won Best Picture at the 1981 Oscars despite only earning above-the-line nominations for Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Redford), Best Adapted Screenplay (Alvin Sargent), Best Actress (Mary Tyler Moore) and Best Supporting Actor (Timothy Hutton and Judd Hirsch). The psychological film ended up winning four trophies for picture, directing, writing and Hutton.
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Exactly 41 years ago, “Ordinary People” won Best Picture at the 1981 Oscars despite only earning above-the-line nominations for Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Redford), Best Adapted Screenplay (Alvin Sargent), Best Actress (Mary Tyler Moore) and Best Supporting Actor (Timothy Hutton and Judd Hirsch). The psychological film ended up winning four trophies for picture, directing, writing and Hutton.
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- 3/25/2022
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Four of this year’s Best Picture nominees are remakes. For “West Side Story,” “Dune,” and “Nightmare Alley,” that meant risky comparisons. For “Coda,” it’s like it never happened.
It’s no secret that “Coda” is an adaptation, but you’ve likely never seen “La Famille Bélier,” the 2014 French film on which “Coda” is based. A massive hit in France, it grossed $55 million — the per-capita equivalent to over $300 million domestic. Worldwide, it grossed $86 million.
And yet there is little evidence that the film ever had any public showings in the United States. In Canada, it screened only in French-speaking regions. (DVDs with English subtitles can be ordered online.)
France is a reliable resource for American remakes, like United Artists’ “The Birdcage” (“La Cage Aux Folles”), STX Entertainment’s “The Upside” (“Intouchables”), and “Three Men and a Baby” (“Trois Hommes et un Couffin”). “Intouchables” was released all over the world.
It’s no secret that “Coda” is an adaptation, but you’ve likely never seen “La Famille Bélier,” the 2014 French film on which “Coda” is based. A massive hit in France, it grossed $55 million — the per-capita equivalent to over $300 million domestic. Worldwide, it grossed $86 million.
And yet there is little evidence that the film ever had any public showings in the United States. In Canada, it screened only in French-speaking regions. (DVDs with English subtitles can be ordered online.)
France is a reliable resource for American remakes, like United Artists’ “The Birdcage” (“La Cage Aux Folles”), STX Entertainment’s “The Upside” (“Intouchables”), and “Three Men and a Baby” (“Trois Hommes et un Couffin”). “Intouchables” was released all over the world.
- 3/25/2022
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
As of this writing, Siân Heder's 2021 film "Coda" — a remake of Éric Lartigau's 2014 French film "La Famille Bélier" — has won Best Picture at the PGA Awards and Best Adapted Screenplay at the WGA Awards. These wins come after a long string of accolades from various critical and production groups and three Academy Award nominations, with winners set to be announced on Sunday, March 27. Vegas odds have "Coda" as second likely to win Best Picture.
"Coda" tells the story of Ruby (Emilia Jones), the only hearing member of her family, as she assists in the family fishing business in Gloucester, Ma, and dreams of going to...
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"Coda" tells the story of Ruby (Emilia Jones), the only hearing member of her family, as she assists in the family fishing business in Gloucester, Ma, and dreams of going to...
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- 3/23/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
They are partnering with Los Angeles-based non-profit theatre company Deaf West Theatre.
France’s Vendôme Pictures and Pathé are partnering with the US non-profit theatre group Deaf West Theatre to develop a stage musical adaptation of the Oscar-nominated feature Coda.
The coming-of-age drama about a talented teenage singer growing up as the only hearing member of a deaf family, has been a breakout title in this year’s awards season, most recently clinching the top prize at Producers Guild Awards (PGA) over the weekend.
Los Angeles’s Deaf West Theatre is best known for its Tony award-nominated productions Big River and Spring Awakening.
France’s Vendôme Pictures and Pathé are partnering with the US non-profit theatre group Deaf West Theatre to develop a stage musical adaptation of the Oscar-nominated feature Coda.
The coming-of-age drama about a talented teenage singer growing up as the only hearing member of a deaf family, has been a breakout title in this year’s awards season, most recently clinching the top prize at Producers Guild Awards (PGA) over the weekend.
Los Angeles’s Deaf West Theatre is best known for its Tony award-nominated productions Big River and Spring Awakening.
- 3/23/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
A stage musical adaptation of the hit film and Oscar nominee Coda is being developed by the movie’s co-producers in partnership with the acclaimed Tony-winning Deaf West Theatre, producers announced today.
The film’s co-producers Vendôme Pictures and Pathé will team up with Deaf West to develop the adaptation. Deaf West is the Los Angeles-based theater company known for its expressive melding of sign language and spoken English to create such acclaimed productions as the Tony Award winning Big River (2004) and the Tony-nominated Spring Awakening (2016).
In a statement, DJ Kurs, Artistic Director of Deaf West Theatre, said, “In the movie there is a scene where the Deaf members of the Rossi family, confronted with an inaccessible school performance, take in Ruby’s song through the joy of others in the audience. This is an opportunity, then, to bring the story full circle by bringing it back to members of...
The film’s co-producers Vendôme Pictures and Pathé will team up with Deaf West to develop the adaptation. Deaf West is the Los Angeles-based theater company known for its expressive melding of sign language and spoken English to create such acclaimed productions as the Tony Award winning Big River (2004) and the Tony-nominated Spring Awakening (2016).
In a statement, DJ Kurs, Artistic Director of Deaf West Theatre, said, “In the movie there is a scene where the Deaf members of the Rossi family, confronted with an inaccessible school performance, take in Ruby’s song through the joy of others in the audience. This is an opportunity, then, to bring the story full circle by bringing it back to members of...
- 3/23/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
From Sundance to Apple TV+ and, now, Oscar frontrunner status, the journey of “Coda” is next headed for the stage.
IndieWire can confirm that an official “Coda” musical is in the works, courtesy of Vendôme Pictures and Pathé partnering with Tony Award–winning Deaf West Theatre. “Coda,” which stands for Child of Deaf Adults, stars Emilia Jones as a teen trying to launch her singing career as the only hearing member of a deaf family. While Ruby’s life is centered on being an interpreter for her parents, played by Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur, plus working on their fishing boat with her brother (Daniel Durant), she dreams of attending a prestigious music school.
“Coda,” directed by Sian Heder, made history as the biggest Sundance acquisition ever, courtesy of Apple, which picked it up for $25 million. The film is nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Kotsur.
IndieWire can confirm that an official “Coda” musical is in the works, courtesy of Vendôme Pictures and Pathé partnering with Tony Award–winning Deaf West Theatre. “Coda,” which stands for Child of Deaf Adults, stars Emilia Jones as a teen trying to launch her singing career as the only hearing member of a deaf family. While Ruby’s life is centered on being an interpreter for her parents, played by Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur, plus working on their fishing boat with her brother (Daniel Durant), she dreams of attending a prestigious music school.
“Coda,” directed by Sian Heder, made history as the biggest Sundance acquisition ever, courtesy of Apple, which picked it up for $25 million. The film is nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Kotsur.
- 3/23/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The Best Picture-nominee “Coda” is going live and will be adapted as a stage musical as developed by Deaf West Theater.
The producers behind “Coda” will work with Deaf West Theater artistic director DJ Kurs on turning Siân Heder’s award-winning film into a stage musical that’s made for the Deaf community.
Vendôme Pictures’ Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi, who produced the original French film on which “Coda” is based, “La Famille Bélier,” are partnering with Pathé’s Jerome Seydoux on the stage project.
Alongside Deaf West, Vendôme and Pathé are currently out to stage directors, composers and writers for the stage project. No specific details were given in terms of when or where the “Coda” musical hopes to debut.
Deaf West is a Los Angeles theater as run by Kurs that weaves Asl with spoken English to create a seamless ballet of movement and voice on stage. It...
The producers behind “Coda” will work with Deaf West Theater artistic director DJ Kurs on turning Siân Heder’s award-winning film into a stage musical that’s made for the Deaf community.
Vendôme Pictures’ Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi, who produced the original French film on which “Coda” is based, “La Famille Bélier,” are partnering with Pathé’s Jerome Seydoux on the stage project.
Alongside Deaf West, Vendôme and Pathé are currently out to stage directors, composers and writers for the stage project. No specific details were given in terms of when or where the “Coda” musical hopes to debut.
Deaf West is a Los Angeles theater as run by Kurs that weaves Asl with spoken English to create a seamless ballet of movement and voice on stage. It...
- 3/23/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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