T.ra i winners of the 2022 Oscars there is also Troy Kotsur in the category Best Supporting Actor for The signs of the heart (original title QUEUE), directed by Sian Heder, who in turn won Best Picture.
Kotsur is the second deaf actor to win in Academy historyafter Marlee Matlin in 1987 with Sons of a lesser god.
Troy Kutsor: “A bridge between the world of the deaf and the world of the hearing”
After Ariana DeBose’s speech on the courage to assert one’s identity, Kotsur the passage opened by the colleague continues, to emphasize the surprises that life can hold and the importance of not giving up, even in the face of adversity. “I was given the opportunity to develop my acting skills,” he says in sign language, barely takes the stage to receive the award.
Then he continues: “I recently read a book by Steven Spielberg. He explains that the definition of perfect director it is that of the perfect communicator. Sian Heder, you are the perfect communicator“. According to Kutsor, Heder had the merit of “unite the world of the deaf with that of the hearing. You are our bridge and your name will always be on that bridge, Sian Heder Bridge. ‘
Troy Kutsor thanks his father: “I did it!”
Thanks to the director soon give way to a personal story. “My father could communicate very well with sign language. He was the best in our family, but a car accident paralyzed him from the neck down and he could no longer use sign language. Dad, I learned so much from you“.
Finally, he concludes by thanking the fans, his wife, “my daughter Kyra, my hometown, Mesa, Arizona”, the manager and the whole team. Above all, however, Kotsur dedicates the victory «to the deaf and disabled community. This is our moment. To my mother, my father, my brother Mark, who are not here today, look at me: I did it! ». The victory of Troy Kotsur, therefore, is not only the triumph of a talented actor, but also of a community, still little told today.
Troy Kotsur. (Getty Images)
Career and awards
The actor was nominated with four distinguished colleagues, all candidates for victory. Ciarán Hinds for BelfastJK Simmons for About the Ricardos, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smith-McPhee for The power of the dog. The Oscar Prizehowever, it is not the only recognition Kotsur obtained thanks to The signs of the heart. In fact, she also won a BAFTAa Boston Society of Film Critics, a Critics’ Choice Award and a Gotham Independent Film Award.
Born in 1968, Troy Kotsur is also a TV actor. On the small screen he has starred in several TV series, including: CSI-New York, Scrubs-Medici in the early stages, Criminal Mind And The Mandalorian.
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