CODA

Actor Troy Kotsur, who plays the father in the film, took home the award for Best Supporting Actor, making him the second deaf actor to win an Academy Award.

"It will be a major catalyst for subscriber growth, too." It could also propel the streamer's "content efforts by multiples over the coming years with a major paid subscriber boost," Ives said. Actor Troy Kotsur, who plays the father in the film, took home the award for Best Supporting Actor, making him the second deaf actor to win an Academy Award. His co-star Marlee Matlin was the first.

La réalisatrice Sian Heder a remporté l'Oscar du meilleur scénario adapté et l'acteur Troy Kotsur, sourd de naissance, le trophée du meilleur second rôle.

TORONTO — When director Sian Heder's family drama "CODA" won the best picture Oscar on Sunday night, it marked multiple firsts: the first time said award ...

"The next goalpost is having a deaf-written and deaf-led film win an Oscar," he says. Even though Raci is a child of deaf adults himself and is fluent in American Sign Language, Dodd says the role should have gone to a deaf actor. "We're at a place now where deaf actors in roles are almost commonplace and that's exactly where we have been fighting to be." "Here in Canada, we have a wonderful and dedicated community of deaf actors and we have many allies in mainstream theatres who are actively pushing for diversity and inclusion on their stages. "Not only do we need deaf actors, we also need more recognition for deaf filmmakers and more opportunities for other deaf artists, including writers, to be in charge. Edmonton-based deaf actor, playwright and accessibility advocate Chris Dodd says Monday he hopes it soon leads to more firsts for deaf performers and artists, in particular, noting "this is our moment" in an interview via email.

The win for deaf family drama 'CODA' marks the first time a streaming service took Hollywood's biggest prize.

It is also the first time the directing award has ever gone to women in back-to-back years after “Nomadland” filmmaker Chloe Zhao won last year. Troy Kotsur made history as the first deaf man to win an Oscar, earning best supporting actor for his role in “CODA”. “Art imitates life. Campion, who had been the first woman ever twice nominated in the category (previously for 1993’s “The Piano”), is just the third woman to win best director. Smith later apologised to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and to his fellow nominees as he tearfully accepted the Oscar for best actor for playing the father of Venus and Serena Williams in “King Richard”. “CODA”, the heartwarming movie about a deaf family with a hearing daughter, has won the prestigious best picture prize at the Oscars.

Growing up as the child of Deaf adults, says Lilit Marcus, I felt like I should just get notecards to hand out explaining my identity.

For the Deaf and CODA kids of my generation, she was not just a star, she was the sun. " -- which, by the way, featured Kotsur in a breakout performance -- and more. Where Deaf people don't have to get in touch with an event venue and request an interpreter a month in advance just because they want to go see a show? I was the older of two hearing children raised by a Deaf father and a hard-of-hearing mother in the 1980s and 1990s. What if Hollywood took a break from rebooting Spider-Man yet again and devoted the budget to films that depict disabled stories and identities? There were the Deaf siblings who look on as their hearing brothers and sisters are treated differently by outsiders.

The feel-good family movie was viewed as an underdog but, in the end, its competition never stood a chance.

Once it won the best picture honor at the Producers Guild Awards last weekend, everyone in town was taking “CODA” seriously. “I heard from so many people afterward, telling me they were finally watching the film,” Heder told me at the Oscar nominees luncheon. Then again ... there was a lot of excitement when “Black Panther” and “Hidden Figures” won at SAG too, films that did not go on to win the Oscar. So “CODA’s” crew didn’t get too carried away. When I interviewed her in January 2021, before the movie screened at the virtual Sundance Film Festival and subsequently sold to Apple for a record $25 million, she said she hoped “CODA” would create a “tidal wave” of awareness for the Deaf community. It’s about dreams and family and the things that we hold close to our hearts. (“And they’d bring friends too,” the source added. “CODA” earned three in all, including for Heder and Kotsur, a low total for a best picture contender. And it didn’t pick up nominations for directing or film editing, categories a movie historically needs to win the big prize. (Her “CODA” co-star, Troy Kotsur, became the second, winning the supporting actor trophy Sunday.) “Usually fellow voters.”) (Think “Marriage Story.”) Not Apple TV+, which became the first streaming service to win the best picture Oscar.