When the musical drama Coda won the Best Picture Oscar in 2022, it marked a sea change in filmmaking: a movie made by a streaming service could win Hollywood’s most sought-after prize, and the service in question didn’t have to be Netflix. Sneaking in through the backdoor was Apple TV+, which has quietly produced a compelling library of starry blockbusters and small-scale triumphs since it debuted in 2019.
Due for release this year is Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which just blew audiences away at Cannes – and which our critic Clarisse Loughrey called “extraordinary” – as well as Ridley Scott’s historical epic Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix.
