I want to congratulate Troy Kotsur for winning the Oscar for Best Supporting actor and congratulate everyone involved in a movie named CODA for winning the Oscars for best picture and best adapted screenplay on March 27th! That wasn’t all; Troy Kotsur and CODA have won several awards before winning any awards from the Oscars. They won several SAG awards, such as outstanding performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture (for Troy Kotsur), the best theatrical motion picture. They also won some BAFTA (Almost like Oscars but in British) and many more awards. Troy Kotsur became the second Deaf person to own an Oscar, he is the first Deaf male to win an oscar but the second to win the oscar, and the first Deaf person to win the oscar was none other than Marlee Matlin (along with the first Deaf female to win the Oscar). Marlee Matlin won the Oscar for her movie Children of a Lesser God back in 1987, so the gap for another Deaf actor or actress to win another one is enormous as it has been 35 years, so it was a way overdue, in my opinion. Both of them deserve the Oscars; I am a fan of both even though Marlee Matlin has me blocked on Twitter for some reason but still a big fan of her, and it was time for another one to win the oscar, which I stated that no one in the Deaf community had won an oscar for 35 years until now that oscar went to Troy Kotsur for his role as a Deaf father in a movie named CODA. I will not write anything about the CODA movie because this is not a review article on a film I will be doing later for CODA.
That Oscar night and for the rest of the future, the Deaf community members celebrate Troy Kotsur’s accomplishments and the movie CODA did. The movie CODA brings out more recognization and education about the Deaf community to the public. When the COVID pandemic hit the United States of America, we saw many states with American Sign Language interpreters. US President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s administration having an American Sign Language interpreter on a live television got the public interested in knowing more about the Deaf community. Everything became a domino for the Deaf community in a good way, and Troy Kotsur won all the accolades along with Oscar, who starred in a movie about a child of the Deaf parents. Talking about the impact that it brought to the public, to the point where everyone learns about the Deaf community, and now many people want to learn American Sign Language because of everything good that has been happening relating to the Deaf community.
Nonetheless, I know I went off the topic a bit here, but I want to point out that there is an effect spreading everywhere, and with CODA movie even pushed us a giant step further in terms of letting the public know that we are here. Troy Kotsur always had a passion for acting; he always tried to get himself in a movie as big as CODA (although it wasn’t his first time acting as he has been in TV/Movies for a long time – you can find all of movies/TV he has done here). Still, no one was taking a chance on him, not at least this big, until now, and he got a role in a CODA movie that gave him all of these accolades! Troy Kotsur deserves all of them and more. I genuinely believe that CODA is not the only movie that will win him an award, as I am sure by now that he gets many calls about having a role in more movies that might keep adding up the list of the accolades he gets! So with that being said, I want to congratulate Troy Kotsur even though I may be a bit late in doing so due to having a hectic schedule and everything getting in the way of trying to find a time to write an article or blog, but better than never! Congratulation, Troy Kotsur, and many congratulations to everyone involved in the movie CODA.
Troy Kotsur. Looking forward to seeing the future movies you will star in; I am also hoping that because of CODA, the producers and directors note that the Deaf people can act, whether in a movie, in a series, or on a stage! You made history, and don’t stop there! Again, many congratulations! PUH (any Deaf knows what this means)! With much love!
Joshua “Joshie” Sullivan.
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