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The hair and makeup win for the Eyes of Tammy Faye moments ago would appear to secure Chastain’s win. The hardest category on the ballot to pick, Chastain has emerged as the late frontrunner – but there’s been a recent vocal shift in support of Cruz. If Power of the Dog has a bad night, or Jane Campion’s faux pas about the Williams sisters last week actually had an impact, then this category opens up. After its record-breaking Sundance deal over a year ago, the narrative has led us to a Coda win (even if it should be Jane Campion’s Power of the Dog). You can’t deny the surge and Coda has been winning awards everywhere over the past few weeks. Could win (and should win): The Power of the Dog.Here are my top picks for the big categories at today’s Academy Awards. In true form, I’ve left this to the last minute.

“The healthcare worker guidance has been updated to enable healthcare staff who are cases or contacts to return to work if they choose to, are well and have regular negative rapid antigen tests,” said the ministry. The Ministry of Health said it has updated its advice for critical healthcare workers wishing to return to work if they have Covid-19 or are a household contact. Of those, 2,300 are in Auckland and 2,119 are in Canterbury. There are 12,882 new community cases of Covid-19. “The Ministry of Health continues to encourage people to be up to date with their vaccinations – including being boosted as the booster restores vaccine effectiveness for Omicron to 90% after it declines following your second dose,” said today’s 1pm statement. Most hospitalisations remain in the Auckland region: there are 141 in North Shore Hospital, 188 in Middlemore and 144 in Auckland Hospital. There are now 861 people in hospital with Covid-19, a slight bump on yesterday’s numbers but still down on the recent peak. Three people were in their 70s, three in their 80s and three people were in their 90s. Seven were men and two were women.

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It takes the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 269 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths to 12. Of the nine deaths we have full details for, two were from the Auckland region, five from Waikato and one each from MidCentral and Nelson Marlborough. There have been 11 more deaths linked to the Covid pandemic. Members of the NZ Film Commission are in the US trying to attract additional productions to New Zealand to leverage off the success of The Power of the Dog. “It speaks to her skill and talent, but she has used that to put New Zealand on the world stage, and we just cannot underestimate the impact of that,” she said. Prime minister Jacinda Ardern, speaking in Wellington, congratulated Campion on her win. Campion also singled out her daughter and partner, and “the person I never met” novelist Thomas Savage, who wrote the original book.Ĭampion read most of her speech from a piece of paper, possibly due to the backlash to her ad libbed joke about Venus and Serena Williams at the Critics’ Choice Awards. The director thanked her “brilliant producers”, the film’s stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst, and Netflix for “embracing this story”. “Kia ora Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia,” said Campion. “I want to say big love to my fellow nominees… it could have been any of you.”

New Zealand director Jane Campion has taken out best director at the Oscars for her Netflix western The Power of the Dog.Ĭampion was widely tipped to take out the prize for the locally-shot film, which is also in the running for best picture. My predictions of the key categories were all correct (for once), including best actor for Will Smith, best actress for Jessica Chastain, and Jane Campion scoring best director. The slightly left field win is also totally in line with the chaos that was today’s Oscars (although if this really was a fever dream, Don’t Look Up would have scored big).Ĭoda also won best adapted screenplay for writer/director Sian Heder and best supporting actor for Troy Kotsur. Thirdly, until recently, it had been losing most of the awards it was nominated for. Secondly, it was a relatively unknown film and had made almost no splash when released on Apple’s streaming service last August. For one, it was only nominated in three categories and did not get a best director nod. While not totally unexpected ( I predicted Coda’s win, as did a lot of people), it’s something that seemed hugely unlikely when nominations were first released. Apple TV’s Coda has taken out best picture at today’s Oscars, sweeping all three categories it was nominated for.

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