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Has the more likely that is to change. actress marlee matlin, the first deaf performer to win an 0scarfor1986's children of a lesser god, could potentially score a best actress nomination for her role in coda as the mother who struggles to connect with her child. she is considered on the fringe of the oscar race at the moment, but troy kotsur, who plays the father, is considered a safer bet to be nominated for best actor and maybe even win. kotsur has worked steadily in film and tv for the last two decades, but coda is his biggest role yet and deaf and disability activists are rooting hard for...

Amount. those are important victories for the film and for deaf representation. but winning an oscar is something different altogether. it would signal to the industry, and really to the whole world, that deaf representation matters, and that it is economically viable. deaf actors have long struggled to get mainstream work — the more success coda has the more likely that is to change. actress marlee matlin, the first deaf performer to win an 0scarfor1986's children of a lesser god, could potentially score a best actress nomination for her role in coda as the mother who struggles to connect w...