Apple’s original film “F1: The Movie” on Sunday won an Academy Award for Best Sound at the 98th Academy Awards. The film is currently streaming on Apple TV.
The film, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joseph Kosinski, received four Oscar nominations overall, including Best Picture. “F1” has already picked up multiple honors across the industry, including Best Editing and Best Sound at the Critics Choice Awards and Best Sound at the BAFTA Film Awards.
The film, which Apple says is the highest-grossing sports feature film of all time, stars Brad Pitt as a once-promising Formula 1 driver whose career was nearly ended by a crash in the 1990s.
Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team’s hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him and he finds that in FORMULA 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition — and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.
This year’s Academy Award win follows Apple’s history-making wins at the 2022 Academy Awards, when “CODA” became the first motion picture starring a predominantly Deaf cast in leading roles to win Best Picture, and the first-ever film from a streaming service to land Best Picture.
