But, unlike that 2014 movie, which was criticised for using hearing actors to play deaf people, Coda casts deaf actors in deaf roles.
And on Sunday he hopes to become the first deaf actor to win a Bafta in one of the main categories.
“I call it a really, really hellish long tough journey, and it was, but now here I am,” said Kotsur, from Arizona.
“And so, 35 years later, I’m realising that deaf actors still really struggle to break in.”
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