“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!'”
Amid the release of the 2025 Oscar nominations, Marlee Matlin, the first deaf performer to win an Academy Award in 1987, recalled the “abuse” she experienced from her ex-boyfriend, the late
The 41st edition of the Sundance Film Festival returns to Park City and Salt Lake City in Utah, with world premiere documentaries and narrative films, presented in-person and streaming online.
Marlee Matlin is looking back on her turbulent two-year relationship with actor William Hurt and what she called his "habit of abuse." Matlin, 59, met Hurt, who died in 2022 at age 71, while filming 1986's Children of a Lesser God.
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore trains its camera on Marlee Matlin, who became the first Deaf performer to win an Oscar when she took home Best Actress for the 1987 film Children of a Lesser God. The film is directed by Deaf director Shoshannah Stern in her directorial debut.
Beyond Film lineup was announced this morning, with Olivia Colman, Daniel Kaluuya, Marlee Matlin and more set for talks.
The actress admits she was scared of Hurt as she approached the Oscar podium where he was standing to give her an Academy Award.
Here are the films mentioned most often by buyers and sellers setting up shop at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Marlee Matlin discusses her abusive relationship with her ex-boyfriend and 'Children of a Lesser God' costar William Hurt in the new documentary 'Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore', which the Oscar winner premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on Jan.
SALLY, directed by Cristina C, screening in the Premieres category was selected as the 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize winner, an annual juried award granted to an artist with the most outstanding depiction of science and technology in a feature-length film.
Marlee Matlin, the Oscar-winning star of 'CODA' and 'Children of a Lesser God,' signs her story in this tender documentary, premiering at Sundance.