There was a little more to the Oscars than Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, the ‘Streaming’ columnist reports NICK OVERALL.

FOR the first time, a streaming platform won the Oscar for best image.

That’s right, apparently there were awards or something in the Smith/Rock showdown.

Apple TV+ slapped Netflix out of the ring to take home the top prize with its family drama “CODA” and the streaming platform enjoyed an influx of new users in the weeks that followed.

For those who don’t know, a “CODA” is a “child of deaf adults” and Ruby, who this movie is about, is exactly that.

The responsibility falls on her to help her family with their daily lives and their struggling fishing business, while trying to pursue her own dreams as a singer.

The premise contains Oscar bait, but this small-but-big movie offers an intimate look into the life of a family who face challenges many people wouldn’t have considered before.

Amid the standard Oscar fanfare, it was admittedly moving to see the Best Supporting Actor award go to Troy Kotsur who plays Ruby’s father, a deaf man himself, and the first to win the award.

Is “CODA” worth the best photo gong? Personally, I thought there were more worthy suitors. Is “CODA” Worth Watching? Absolutely, maybe even just to take advantage of the Apple TV+ free trial for those who aren’t already a subscriber. It is an eye and an ear opening.

MEANWHILE on Netflix, the curtain has fallen on one of its most cult shows.

“Peaky Blinders,” the story of Tommy Shelby and his crew of mobster scallywags, came to an end after six action-packed seasons and, boy, did it turn out great.

Set in the soot-coated streets of Birmingham in the aftermath of World War I, this series follows the exploits of a gang of Irish-Roma crooks and a detective’s relentless crusade to bring them down.

The story is loose here. There was indeed a gang known as the “Peaky Blinders” that ran amok around the turn of the 19th century, but the background to this series is fictional.

Shelby, the pugnacious and cunning kingpin of the gang, is not a real person, but rather a mob-like “creative amalgamation”.

In this final episode, his decisions finally catch up with him, and he’s as engrossing to watch at the end as he’s ever been thanks to Cillian Murphy’s powerful performance.

It’s no small feat sticking a landing on a show as beloved as “Peaky Blinders,” but the series has proven it knows both when and how to throw in the towel.

With just six episodes per season, it’s a lesson in leaving audiences wanting more, not less, and securing a well-deserved legacy in the television canon.

DISNEY has hoisted popular actor Oscar Isaac from “Star Wars” to Marvel in his new “Moon Knight” series on Disney Plus and, as always, we can’t help but love what he directs.

The actor brings his on-screen charisma effortlessly to one of the far lesser-known heroes of the Marvel comics canon, one who achieves his powers of an Egyptian moon god and the next thing you know he’s out avenging the innocents and all that hoo-ha.

What’s more interesting here is when its main character actually came out of costume.

This hero suffers from dissociative identity disorder, his existence is struggling with two conflicting personalities. Some days he’s a hardened mercenary with 007-like skills, other days he’s a harmless and clumsy gift shop employee.

Isaac, quoted as wanting to do something “really crazy” with these split personalities, gives them different accents, mannerisms, nervous mannerisms, and all sorts of idiosyncrasies that really sell the character. In turn, each personality also has its own effect on the caped crusader it becomes when night falls.

It’s easy to see Isaac having fun with it all, and so that fun is pretty infectious to audiences.

In fact, he’s even been cited as drawing inspiration from British comedian Karl Pilkington for the character, who viewers might know as the globe-trotting doofus from “An Idiot Abroad.”

I thought Marvel was really running out of ideas, but when Karl Pilkington, of all people, serves as inspiration for an action hero, maybe there’s still something up their sleeves.