These joyous moments from the Oscars shouldn’t be overlooked

She’s also one of few actors to have won an Oscar for playing the same role as a previous Oscar winner: Rita Moreno won the same award for playing Anita in 1961’s “West Side Story,” and DeBose called the actress her “divine inspiration.”

Troy Kotsur wins

The actor first joked that he’d planned on teaching President Joe Biden some “dirty sign language” until his co-star (and the first deaf actor to win an Oscar) Marlee Matlin intervened. He thanked director Siân Heder for “bringing the deaf world and the hearing world together” and tipped his hat to the fishermen of the Massachusetts town where “CODA” was filmed and reminded them to “eat [their] spinach” à la Popeye.

He also emotionally acknowledged his father, who he said was “the best signer in our family” until a car accident paralyzed him from the neck down. Kotsur, who won his Oscar for playing an endlessly supportive father, called his dad his hero.

He dedicated the award to the deaf community, CODAs (or children of deaf adults) and people with disabilities.

“This is our moment,” he said.

Questlove speaks from the heart

“It’s not lost on me that the story of the Harlem Cultural Festival should’ve been something that my beautiful mother — and my dad — should’ve taken me to when I was 5 years old,” the musician and filmmaker said, choking up when he mentioned his father.

He said he was stunned, but that the moment wasn’t about him: “This is about marginalized people in Harlem that needed to heal from pain. Just know in 2022 — this is not just a 1969 story about marginalized people in Harlem.”

“Overwhelmed” by the win, Quest said he’d reserve his thank-yous for offstage, but ended his speech with, “I’m so happy right now I could cry.”

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