CODA

Oscar nominations for CODA and Audible are a rare but encouraging sign that the industry is recognizing actors and stories from the deaf community.

In a 2020 research report on deaf and disability arts practices in Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts found that artists who are deaf and or have disabilities face major barriers in accessibility, funding, communications and cultural representation. One of the reasons why CODA was so successful, Roberts believes, is because its director Sian Heder worked with collaborators and consultants who are deaf. The nominations are a rare but encouraging sign that the industry is recognizing actors and stories from the deaf community. Matlin, who plays Ruby's mom Jackie, was the first actor who is deaf to win an Oscar when she took home best actress for Children of a Lesser God in 1987. "A lot of people just aren't in the know. Audible, which is streaming on Netflix, follows Amaree McKenstry-Hall as he gears up for a high-stakes season championship game. While watching CODA, she said she appreciated Kotsur's comedic performance, calling him a master of American Sign Language (ASL). Why can't she listen to music, Ruby asks, if her brother is allowed to scroll a dating app mid-meal? But CODA isn't the only movie nominated for an Oscar this year featuring people who are deaf. "ASL directors, ASL coaches, consultants, and crew members who are deaf will make all the difference in the accuracy of the story and the quality of the film," Roberts wrote. During an early dinner table scene, Ruby's mother admonishes her for listening to music as they're sitting down to eat. Jones is joined by veteran actors Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, and Daniel Durant, playing her family members.

The award-season success of the film "CODA" continues to delight the Deaf community — and inspire hope for future projects.

The Oscars return to Hollywood on Sunday, as nominees from top contending films including "CODA," "The Power of the Dog" and "Belfast" gather in a ...

picture of the future." But still, the perceived snub has been controversial in the industry. "Some Academy members I speak to are still reluctant to vote for a Netflix film as a best picture. "People have had a very rough last two years. Feinberg called the best actress race "truly one where any of the five nominees could win," but said Jessica Chastain's portrayal of a real-life televangelist in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" was the "likeliest" to strike Oscars gold. While Jane Campion's "The Power of the Dog" is adored by many, it is "a bit more polarizing" and "not everyone's cup of tea" -- a handicap, as Academy voters are asked to rank all 10 best picture nominees.

Marlee Matlin, the deaf actress who played Laura, is part of the ensemble of deaf actors in the movie CODA. By now readers may be familiar with CODA's origin ...

Whether or not you agree with Katz and O’Dell that CODA is primarily a movie for hearing people, this particular line clearly is directed at—even caters to—the needs of a hearing audience member. Central to CODA’s appeal is its well-curated soundtrack (the Shaggs, the Clash), and the choral versions of hits from David Bowie and the Isley Brothers. Each song is a chance for you—and the film—to reset. But the you in that sentence refers mainly to the hearing members of the audience. And yet he ultimately sees it as a story about “a hearing person trying to live in the hearing world” in spite of her deaf family, which he found troubling. Matlin was the first deaf actor cast in CODA, and she threatened to walk away from the production unless the producers agreed to hire deaf actors for the other deaf parts. If by the end of the movie you were too tired, or too lazy, to do the reading, you still could not miss this moment. In one scene, we hear the music of the film from the perspective of Ruby’s family. Another divisive aspect of CODA is the outsize role that music plays in the plot. He reads lips, he puts himself out there to join his fellow fishermen at the bar, and he attempts to do his own financial negotiating before Ruby steps in to do it quicker, faster, “better.” At one point, Leo nearly breaks the fourth wall during a fight with her: “We’re not helpless!” he signs, holding back tears. The production’s extensive use of ASL and its casting of deaf actors in deaf roles are milestones worth celebrating. Sarah Katz, a deaf writer in the D.C. area, told me that her initial excitement for CODA was tempered by “its focus on a musically inclined hearing character.” Katz found the Rossi family’s reliance on Ruby unrealistic at times, specifically during a legal hearing. Frank is a fisherman, a family man, and a Lebowski-esque stoner who cranks hip-hop in his truck so he can feel the bass rumble on his butt.

CODA, an honest and sincere drama about a hearing child in a deaf family, was something of an underdog when it first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2021. The film received rapturous reviews and a healthy dollop of publicity, and walked away ...

It mattered that Chloé Zhao won for Nomadland, because it offered genuine hope that the barriers for women directors, and especially women of colour, were starting to break. And it matters that Coda won because of the doors it will open for other majority deaf casts. The Power of the Dog and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car will continue to be talked about in the ways they were talked about before. Meanwhile, her father’s work in the fishing industry has come under threat of corporate interference, with 60 per cent of his catch now handed over to middlemen. It’s been frequently dismissed by commentators as a shallow crowd-pleaser, but the label only fits if you’re faithfully tied to the assumption that any expression of sentimentality should be equated automatically with naivete. The film received rapturous reviews and a healthy dollop of publicity, and walked away from Sundance with a record-breaking $25m acquisition deal with Apple TV+.

"CODA" producer Philippe Rousselet is pleased, but not surprised, that his heartwarming drama about a deaf family is now a hot favorite for best picture at ...

It's an important film, a film that does good." "French films are largely financed by television. "'La Famille Belier' was a formidably successful comedy, as we like them in France," Rousselet told AFP, referring to the original on which the Apple TV+ hit is based.