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Players also got to put names to faces of some of game's wider cast, including bank robber Raul Bautista, smuggler Brian Heder and rap combo Real Dimez.

“I was just hoping the movie would find a buyer,” Siân Heder, the film’s director, told me months after Sundance.

By the time it won the Oscar — and Heder had collected the trophy for adapted screenplay — “CODA” had moved from being what its star, Marlee Matlin, called a “tidal wave of awareness” for the Deaf community to a “tsunami” on just about every front.

Gauthier photographed last year’s ceremony as well, documenting “CODA” director Sian Heder hugging Elliot Page, Ariana DeBose’s victory walk, Jessica Chastain celebrating her lead actress win, Jane Campion showing off her trophy, and Venus and Serena Williams holding hands and talking.

For writer and director Sian Heder, every good project is a “heart opening and intellectually opening education.”