Screen Actors Guild Awards: Coda takes top prize, Squid Game makes history with two acting wins

LOS ANGELES • Coda, a heartfelt indie drama about a struggling deaf family, won the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday, boosting its hopes as a potential dark horse for this month’s Oscars.

Meanwhile, Netflix’s record-breaking drama Squid Game continued to make history by becoming the first non-English-language series to win acting prizes at the SAG awards.

Coda, taking its title from an acronym for “child of deaf adult”, follows high school teen Ruby as she juggles her musical ambitions with her family’s dependence on her to communicate with the “hearing” world.

“We deaf actors have come a long way,” signed a visibly shocked Marlee Matlin, a deaf former Oscar winner who plays Ruby’s mother, as she and her co-stars accepted the statuette for best cast in a motion picture. “This validates the fact that we deaf actors can work just like anybody else.”