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Nominations | 26 |
American actress Marlee Matlin won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama as well as the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, for her screen debut in the 1986 romantic drama film Children of a Lesser God. At age 21, she is the youngest Best Actress winner and was the first deaf performer to win an Academy Award. [1] [2] [3] Since then, Matlin, who is deaf, has received a number of awards and nominations for her acting work, including two additional Golden Globe nominations and four Emmy Award nominations for her television appearances. In 2009, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Matlin has also received honors for her public service on behalf of the deaf, including a national Jefferson Award in 1988. Gallaudet University, a private university that focuses on educating deaf and hard of hearing persons, awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1987.
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
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1986 | Children of a Lesser God | Won |
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1995 | Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story |
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1987 | Herself |
| Honored |
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1986 | Children of a Lesser God | Won | |
1991 | Reasonable Doubts | Nominated | |
1992 | Nominated |
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2021 | CODA | Nominated |
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2014 | - | Won | |
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2022 | CODA |
| Nominated |
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2009 | — | Honored |
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1988 | Herself | Won |
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1986 | Children of a Lesser God | Runner-up |
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2000 | The Practice |
| Nominated |
The West Wing | Nominated |
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1991 | Reasonable Doubts |
| Nominated |
1999 | Where the Truth Lies | Nominated |
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1994 | Seinfeld: "The Lip Reader" | Nominated | |
Picket Fences: "Dancing Bandit" | Nominated | ||
2000 | The Practice: "Life Sentence" | Nominated | |
2004 | Law & Order: SVU: "Painless" | Nominated |
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1995 | Picket Fences | Nominated | |
2022 | CODA | Won |
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2022 | CODA | Nominated |
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1986 | Children of a Lesser God |
| Won |
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1991 | Reasonable Doubts |
| Nominated |
1992 | Nominated | ||
1994 | Picket Fences |
| Nominated |
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2021 | CODA |
| Nominated |
Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines from a screenplay written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff based on Medoff's 1979 play of the same name. It stars William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, and Philip Bosco. The film's narrative follows two employees at a school for the deaf: a deaf custodian and a hearing speech teacher, whose conflicting ideologies on speech and deafness create tension and discord in their developing romantic relationship.
Marlee Beth Matlin is an American actress, author, and activist. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for a BAFTA Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards.
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama is a Golden Globe Award that was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture", but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress – Comedy or Musical.
The following is a list of the film and television appearances of American actress Marlee Matlin. Matlin, who had previously acted in stage productions, made her screen debut as the female lead in the 1986 film Children of a Lesser God, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, becoming the youngest Best Actress winner and the first deaf performer to have won an Academy Award. Matlin, who is deaf, generally plays deaf characters. However, in 1994 Matlin also played a hearing woman when she appeared in the title role of the television movie Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story, based on the true story of Carrie Buck, who was not deaf. Matlin was nominated for a CableACE Award for her performance as Carrie Buck.
CODA is a 2021 French-American independent coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Sian Heder. An English-language remake of the 2014 French-Belgian film La Famille Bélier, it stars Emilia Jones as Ruby Rossi, the titular child of deaf adults (CODA) and only hearing member of her family, a teenager who attempts to help her family's struggling fishing business while pursuing her own aspirations of being a singer.
Troy Michael Kotsur is an American actor in theater, film, and television.