He also thanked the “wonderful” deaf theatre stages “where I was allowed and given the opportunity to develop my craft as an actor” and paid a special tribute to his father. “I was planning on teaching some dirty sign language but Marlee Matlin told me to behave myself,” he joked. The Mesa, Arizona, native also shouted out the global reach of the film, which led to an invitation from the Biden White House. Kotsur has already won a string of awards for his role in the film, including best supporting actor at the Baftas, Critics’ Choice and Screen Actors Guild awards. “This is amazing to be here on this journey,” he said to a standing ovation applauding in American Sign Language (ASL). Alongside Jones and Kotsur, it also features Matlin as Frank’s wife, Jackie. Coda is a remake of 2014 French film La Famille Bélier and is written and directed by Sian Heder. Kotsur won the prize for his role as fisherman Frank Rossi in Coda, the deaf father of Emilia Jones’ Ruby – the “child of deaf adults” as alluded to in the title – and becomes only the second deaf actor to win an Oscar, after Marlee Matlin’s best actress award for Children of a Lesser God in 1987. Troy Kotsur has won the Oscar for best supporting actor at the 94th Academy Awards, which was held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Read more about the importance of the award in this article by Andrew Pulver and Adrian Horton from The Guardian. This awards season marked a big milestone for disability representation in the media, with Troy Kotsur becoming the first deaf man to win an Oscar for acting.
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