Troy Kotsur won this year's Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, making him the first Deaf man to win an Academy Award for acting, and the second Deaf actor to win one after his co-star Marlee Matlin's win for 'Children of a Lesser God'.
CODA actor Troy Kotsur made history on Sunday, as he became the first Deaf man to win an acting Oscar. Released on Apple TV+ in August last year, CODA won in all three of its nominated categories, becoming the first streaming film and the first film with a predominantly Deaf cast to win a Best Picture Oscar. Additionally, director Siân Heder won for Best Adapted Screenplay.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Kotsur edged out fellow nominees Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jesse Plemons , Ciarán Hinds and J.K. Simmons . Over the course of the awards season, he has won an Independent Spirit Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Critics' Choice Movie Award. In CODA, he plays a Deaf fisherman struggling to communicate with his hearing daughter.
CODA is a remake of the 2014 French film La Famille Bélier. It premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast, the Directing Award, the Audience Award, and the Grand Jury Prize. It was acquired by Apple for a record $25 million. The film also stars Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez and Daniel Durant. Seventeen-year-old Ruby is the sole hearing member of a Deaf family — a CODA, or “child of Deaf adults.
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