After months of depressing news in the entertainment industry, this year’s Oscars were a predictably subdued affair. But, amid a crowd desperate for an uplift, one star cut through the gloom: six-year-old Maisie Sly, a deaf girl from Swindon who was at the centre of the ceremony’s most touching moment.

This came when Rachel Shenton, the British actress and writer of 2017 film The Silent Child, gave her acceptance speech for Best Live Action Short Film Oscar in sign language so her star, Maisie, could understand it. “Our movie is about a deaf child being born into a world of silence,” Shenton explained, with shaking hands. “It’s not exaggerated or sensationalised for the movie. This is happening:…Read more at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/03/05/oscars-shine-light-maisie-profoundly-deaf-six-year-old-actress/