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Kotsur's portrayal of a deaf father in the comedy drama film CODA (2021) was critically acclaimed and won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, making him the first male deaf actor, and second overall (after Marlee Matlin [a]) to win an acting Oscar.
NEW YORK (AP) — When Troy Kotsur made history as the first Deaf male actor win an Oscar at the 2022 Academy Awards, he was thinking about his father.. By then, Kotsur had already become a hero ...
Troy Kotsur, who plays fisherman Frank Rossi in "CODA," just won the Oscar for supporting actor. Read his full acceptance speech here. 'CODA' star Troy Kotsur makes history as first Deaf male ...
(Matlin was the first deaf performer to win an Oscar, for Children of a Lesser God, in 1987.) "Don't worry, Marlee. I won't drop any F-bombs in my speech today," added Kotsur, who still brought ...
First Deaf actress to be nominated for and win an acting award. Marlee Matlin won Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God (1986) First Deaf actor to be nominated for and win an acting award. Troy Kotsur won Best Supporting Actor for CODA (2021) First autistic actor to win an Academy Award. Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for The Silence of the ...
The film features the deaf character Linda (played by deaf actress Linda Bove), who reprises her role from the children's series Sesame Street. The Shop on Main Street: 1965: The Czechoslovak drama film set in the Slovak State during World War II features a shop owned by a mostly deaf elderly Jewish woman. Her friends pay a carpenter to be her ...
“CODA,” starring Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur, made history at the 2022 Oscars. The film, written and directed by Sian Heder, became the first featuring a predominantly deaf cast to win best ...
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 9th Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role in a film released that year.