CODA picked up awards for Best Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor on this date (March 27, 2022) one year ago today. Siân Heder's CODA script has won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. She adapted the script from the 2014 French film La Famille Bélier . The English-language remake centers on Emilia Jones as a teenager named Ruby. She is a CODA, the only hearing member of a Deaf family, who struggles to balance family obligations and her love of music. Heder

It was 38 years ago today (March 13, 1988) that the Deaf President Now movement succeeded. It happened when I King Jordan became the first deaf president of Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. Read the details of what happened here .

‘CODA’ Star Troy Kotsur won the best supporting trophy at the Film Independent Spirit Award on March 6, 2022. Image: Variety That makes him the first deaf actor to win the award. Kotsur plays deaf fisherman Frank Rossi in the film CODA.  In accepting the honor, Kotsur thanked the film’s producers and applauded them for their vision. He went on to thank his wife and daughter. Backstage he said: “You know how long it took me to get here? And it takes doctors a long time to get