On this date in 2022, at the 94th Academy Awards, one guy slapped another. But, more importantly, "CODA" was awarded the Oscar for Best Picture. In the film, the character of Ruby Rossi, the child of deaf adults (CODA) and only hearing member of her family, attempts to help her family's struggling fishing business while pursuing her aspirations to become a singer. The movie uses deaf actors to play the deaf characters, who, along with Ruby's portrayer Emilia Jones, communicate using American Sign Language.
Written and directed by Sian Heder,"CODA" is an English-language remake of the French-language film "La Famille Bélier," which was released in 2014 and was successful at the French box office. Philippe Rousselet was one of the original film's producers, and he had the right to do a remake. He and producer Patrick Wachsberger approached Heder to direct a remake for a United States audience. Heder said, "They were interested in adapting the film, but they wanted someone to make it unique and take the premise from the original and, also, reinvent it."
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To prepare for the film, Heder observed a fish processing plant and consulted the local harbormaster about how authorities would raid a boat. She received feedback from director Kenneth Lonergan—who directed the 2016 film "Manchester by the Sea," which was set in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts—and members of the fishing-industry nonprofit Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association. Several consultants and a fisherman educated Heder in local fishing practices.
Marlee Matlin, who won an Oscar of her own for "Children of a Lesser God" (1986), was the first person cast for the film. During the development process, the film's financiers resisted casting deaf actors for the remaining deaf characters, but Matlin threatened to drop out unless deaf actors were cast, and the financiers ultimately relented. Heder described the casting as an opportunity for Matlin to play against type, her previous roles have been "'put-together' and classy characters." Heder said, "Marlee, in real life, is much more funny, and she has a dirty sense of humor. This (role) was a working-class fisherman's wife, and she has a lot of elements of her personality that were very right for this character."
Sian Heder first saw Troy Kotsur's performances in Los Angeles' Deaf West Theatre productions of "Our Town" and Edward Albee's "At Home at the Zoo" and cast him as part of the ensemble as the deaf fisherman father.
"CODA" won all three nominations at the 94th Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Kotsur, and Best Adapted Screenplay, becoming the seventh Best Picture winner to win every award it was nominated for, after "Wings" (1927), "Grand Hotel" (1932), "It Happened One Night" (1934), "Gigi" (1958), "The Last Emperor" (1987), and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003).
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