Academy Awards-winning actor Troy Kotsur (CODA, The Mandalorian) will ship the graduation keynote deal with on the UCLA College of Theater, Movie and Tv’s upcoming graduation ceremony.
Author-producer Amy Aniobi (Insecure) will obtain the Distinguished Alumni Award on the occasion.
Brian Kite, interim dean of the UCLA College of Theater, Movie and Tv, gave the main points at this time for the college’s seventy fifth annual graduation ceremony. Kite will preside over the occasion on Friday, June 10, 2022 from 2 PM to 4:00 PM. at UCLA’s Royce Corridor.
“It’s an honor to welcome Mr. Kotsur to ship the graduation keynote deal with following his elegant and hilarious efficiency in CODA,” stated an announcement from Kite. “Mr. Kotsur’s groundbreaking achievements as member of, and advocate for, the Deaf group serve to remind us that the views and tales of people from all backgrounds and talents should not solely essential however very important to the way forward for the humanities. Our various pupil physique is the longer term, and Mr. Kotsur is the proper particular person to encourage the subsequent stage of their careers.”
Kotsur earned the Academy Award for Greatest Supporting Actor for his position as Frank, the deaf fisherman father of a listening to daughter who needs to be a singer in director Sian Heder’s CODA. The movie additionally gained the Academy Award for Greatest Image and Greatest Tailored Screenplay.
Kotsur is the primary deaf male actor and solely the second deaf actor general to win the Oscar, after his CODA co-star Marlee Matlin for her position in Kids of a Lesser God (1986). Kotsur additionally earned BAFTA, Critics’ Alternative, Gotham, Unbiased Spirit and Display Actors Guild awards, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his CODA position.
In recognizing Aniobi, Kite stated, “We’re proud to be celebrating the accomplishments of Amy Aniobi. As a author, producer and director, Amy has emerged as an essential expertise in Hollywood, who’s using her success to raise Black voices and to encourage the inclusion of Black creatives within the trade. She is the wanted change we need to see within the trade and honoring her and her work with this yr’s Distinguished Alumni Award shall be an inspiration to our graduates and a reminder that their voices matter.”
Aniobi obtained her MFA in screenwriting from the UCLA College of Theater, Movie and Tv in 2011. She is a writer-director-producer finest identified for her work on the NAACP Award-winning, Emmy-nominated HBO comedy collection Insecure.
