British-born actor Riz Ahmed went to Twitter to thank fans for the incredible journey that has been this year's awards season.

The Sound of Metal star celebrates his award nomination and everybody who helped bring the movie to the screen.

Darius Marder's attention to detail is top notch.

The actors play a metal band duo in the Amazon Prime drama.

He draws from personal experience and shares about being a part of Sound of Metal.

Amazon Studios has released the trailer for the upcoming drama Sound of Metal. The film stars Riz Ahmed as a rock drummer who is rapidly losing his hearing. Looking to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend (Olivia Cooke), he agrees to live with a deaf community to better understand and grapple with his hearing loss, but he struggles to accept how his world has changed. If you’re watching this trailer, do not attempt to adjust your YouTube settings. The closed captions are purposeful and the film itself takes great care to put you in the mind of the deaf …

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One of the things I like best about Darius Marder’s feature directing debut Sound of Metal is how unsentimental it is. The temptation is certainly there as you watch its main character struggle to overcome a massive physical change that impacts his entire life. But to frame the film that way would be to cite deafness as a disability and that those who suffer from it are somehow broken and need fixing. Instead, Marder rejects that assumption and chooses to take a broader look at life, avoiding platitudes and mawkish sentiment for a profound look at the fleeting and …