American independent entertainment company that specializes in film and television production, as well as film distribution A24, and Streaming Media service that offers a wide variety of award-winning TV shows/ movies, Netflix won big at the just concluded 95th Oscars award.
The 95th Academy Awards which took place at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre on Sunday, was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and watched by millions of viewers across the globe.
A24 won the most Oscars on Sunday night, with a total of nine awards after getting 18 nominations with “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, leading the pack with 11 nominations. This made it not only the most nominated film in A24’s catalogue but also the most-nominated film this year.
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It was an outstanding achievement for the New York-based company, which previously won its first Academy Award for Moonlight in 2017.
Netflix earned the second-most wins by a film distributor, earning six awards. Overall, Netflix won six Oscars on Sunday night, after receiving 16 total nominations at the award ceremony.
Netflix ranked second among its competitors with the most wins courtesy of the German War movie “All quiet on the Western Front” which won four(4) awards, the Indian documentary short film “The Elephant Whisperers won one (1) award, and the animated movie Guillermo’s Del Toro “Pinocchio” which won one (1) award.
According to reports, the last time Netflix won big at the Oscars award was in 2021, having a total of seven wins. Last year, the streaming service got nominated 26 times but unfortunately won only one award, which was Jane Campion’s win for directing “The Power of the Dog.”
Netflix has scored 132 Oscar nominations and 22 Oscar wins since 2014. 56 individual Netflix Original movies, shorts, and documentaries have been nominated at the Oscars since 2014.
Despite getting 13 nominations, American film, and entertainment studio Warner Bros only managed to win one award with “Navalny” earning an Oscar for the Documentary Feature film category.
Meanwhile, Disney grabbed only two wins for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Avatar: The way of water”. Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick” earned an academy award for sound. Amazon-owned MGM won the adapted screenplay category for “women talking”.
Among other list of winners at the last Night’s Oscars is Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh, who won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for “Everything Everywhere All at Once”.
Also, U.S. actor Brendan Fraser won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for “The Whale”. U.S. directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert both won the Oscars for Best Director for “Everything Everywhere All at Once”.