Presented by Youn Yuh-jung, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2021 for Minari, the statuette was given to Troy Kotsur, for his role as Frank Rossi in CODA – the American remake of The Bélier Family by Éric Lartigau. The actor, who plays the father of the family in the said film, beat Ciaran Hinds, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee or even JK Simmons. He is, by the way, the first deaf-mute actor to win an Oscar – on the men’s side anyway, since Marlee Matlin had already won the Oscar for best actress in Les Enfants du silence in 1987. elsewhere that Matlin plays Kotsur’s wife in CODA.
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