Nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay 
Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the only hearing person in her family. She helps her father (Troy Kotsur) and brother (Daniel Durant) on their fishing boat before school most days, on top of the unpaid labor of acting as interpreter. When she decides to join the school choir as something just for herself, she discovers she has a true talent for singing. Her teacher (Eugenio Derbez) thinks she even has a shot at getting into Berklee College of Music. Ruby has to make her family understand her dreams even as it pushes her further away from them.
This has almost no shot at Best Picture. It's too slight, too sweet, too middlebrow. It's a good movie, an easy watch, but there's nothing about it that elevates it above the other contenders. I don't know how it compares to its source material so I can't say if it's got a chance with Adapted Screenplay. Kotsur is very good in it and is probably the strongest prospect for CODA taking home an Oscar. I'm still missing one film from that category but right now, he's my pick for Supporting Actor.
CODA is streaming on Apple+.
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