The moment Marlee Matlin stepped onstage at the 1987 Academy Awards as the first deaf actor to win an Oscar for “Children of a Lesser God” appeared to be a joyous triumph. At 21, she rocketed to international fame and was given the immediate and often heavy mantle of deaf emissary,

Marlee Matlin gives an unflinchingly honest account of her experiences as a deaf actor in the funny and revelatory documentary “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore.”

Marlee Matlin and documentary director Shoshannah Stern on capturing the authenticity of the deaf experience and elevating the film's captions.

“I was afraid as I walked up the stairs to get the Oscar,” Matlin recalled about the moment in an interview with filmmaker Shoshannah Stern. “I was afraid because I knew in my gut that he wasn’t happy. Because I saw the look on his face and my thought was, ‘S–t!'”

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Good Things Utah)- the first deaf actress to win an Oscar award, Marlee Matlin shares her journey through her documentary “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore.” Film

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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Marlee Matlin gives an unflinchingly honest account of her experiences as a deaf actor in the funny and revelatory documentary “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore.”

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