Children of a Lesser God
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Oct 30, 2026
Timothy DealHOST
Best Actor was Paul Newman for The Color of Money.
Timothy DealHOST
And Best Actress, Marlee Matlin for Children of a Lesser God, which I know nothing about that one.
Timothy DealHOST
Cool title.
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Yeah,
Paul SiebertHOST
Oliver Stone's platoon took home the award for best drama, while Hannah and her sisters won the award for best musical or comedy.
Paul SiebertHOST
Marlee Martin won the award for best actress in a drama for her role in Children of a Lesser God.
Paul SiebertHOST
And this is notable because she is deaf.
Paul SiebertHOST
Oh, wow.
David KargerGUEST
Well, I actually write about that in the introduction to the book.
David KargerGUEST
And there's a movie from the 80s called Children of a Lesser God with Marlee Matlin.
David KargerGUEST
She won the Oscar for Best Actress and William Hurt.
David KargerGUEST
That's a movie that I saw when I was 14 and it just hit me like a thunderbolt and I absolutely loved it.
Jack MitchellHOST
Also The Boy Who Could Fly.
Jack MitchellHOST
And Stuart had Children of a Lesser God.
Jack MitchellHOST
If you want to watch TV tonight in 1986, your choice is on Channel 3 or 1011.
Jack MitchellHOST
Kate and Allie, My Sister Sam, New Heart Designing Women, and Cagney and Lacey.
Brandon DavisHOST
Mm-hmm
Holley SnaithGUEST
... and Children of a Lesser God, and all of these great films that have come, but it was Johnny Belinda that really set the standard for deaf people being portrayed in film.
Holley SnaithGUEST
And, and it was just, I think it was the message, too, about it that here's this girl, she became deaf as an infant, so she was not born deaf.
Holley SnaithGUEST
She, she took ill as a baby, and then she was deaf.
McGraw MilhavenHOST
Uh, but what were the movies nominated for Best Picture in 1986 for the Oscars?
Tarik KhanGUEST
Okay, yeah, the nominees for Best Picture of the Year were Children of a Lesser God, uh, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, Platoon, and A Room With a View.
Tarik KhanGUEST
Uh, Platoon was the, the night's best, uh, uh, big winner, winning Best Picture and Best Director.
Tarik KhanGUEST
So again, the Academy went for more serious films.
Tarik KhanGUEST
...
Tarik KhanGUEST
De Niro.
McGraw MilhavenHOST
Children of a Lesser God, that was a great movie with, uh, William Hurt, wasn't it?
Tarik KhanGUEST
Yes, and Marlee Matlin.
Dave KargerGUEST
So in the introduction to the book, I write about the movie that means the most to me.
Dave KargerGUEST
And it's Children of a Lesser God.
Dave KargerGUEST
With William Hurt and, of course, Marlee Matlin in her Oscar-winning performance that she did when she was 19 years old and remains to this day the youngest Best Actress winner of all time because she was 21 when she won.
Dave KargerGUEST
And it's a movie that I saw soon after it came out.
Dave KargerGUEST
I think it was on HBO or something.
Dave KargerGUEST
And it just kind of connected with me at the right moment because – Before that, I was really into John Hughes and, you know, Sixteen Candles and lighter movies like that.
Dave KargerGUEST
But I think because I saw Children of a Lesser God at the age of 14, I was just kind of beginning to connect and get ready for more mature adult grown-up love stories.
Dave KargerGUEST
And I also was very taken with William Hurt.
Phil AbramsonHOST
Number four was Stand By Me.
Phil AbramsonHOST
And number five was another new release, Children of a Lesser God.
Phil AbramsonHOST
Now this is a film about two people who fall in love while working at a school for the
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deaf.