Marlee Matlin became both the first deaf person to win an Oscar and the youngest best actress winner when she won for 1986's "Children of a Lesser God." The youngest winner of best actor was 29 ...

Matlin was also the first deaf performer to win an Academy Award. She would remain the sole winner until Troy Kotsur won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2022 for his role in "CODA," which ...

She is still the youngest Academy Award winner in a competitive category ... She became the first and only deaf actress to win an Oscar when she won in the best actress category in 1987.

Hollywood's biggest night brought stars together on Sunday to celebrate the best in film at the 2025 Oscars. "Anora" won the coveted best picture Oscar, while the film's director Sean Baker took home ...

Following its audience award won in Berlin, Eva Libertad’s Deaf added four more prizes ... is Giraldo’s first fiction feature. A big winner was Carlos Saiz’s father-son road movie Lionel ...

This year, one of the six award winners was Ronda Jo Miller Donatucci, who played basketball and volleyball at Gallaudet University in D.C., making her the first deaf athlete to ever win such an ...