Sarah Polley Thanks Academy For “Not Being Mortally Offended” By The Words “Women” & “Talking” Following Oscar Win
deadline.comSarah Polley won her first Oscar for her Women Talking. “First of all, just want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words women and talking with so close together like that,” she said as her film won the award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay). “Miriam Toews wrote an essential novel about a radical democracy in which people who don’t agree on every single issue managed to sit together in a room and carve out a way forward together free of violence.
They do so not just by talking but also by listening,” she added. RELATED: ‘Women Talking’: Read The Screenplay By Sarah Polley That Takes On Remaking “A Broken World” Women Talking, which came from Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing, beat All Quiet on the Western Front, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Living and Top Gun: Maverick in the category.
The win prevented All Quiet On The Western Front, which has been gaining momentum through the night, from becoming the first non-English language film to win the award.
Women Talking was written and directed by Polley. It is based on Toews’ eponymous book and is inspired by real events that occurred at the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia.
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