Sarah Polley has won her first Academy Award. The Canadian filmmaker, who hails from Toronto, Ont., was awarded the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Sunday night for her movie, “Women Talking”. Read more: Oscars 2023 red carpet: The best and boldest fashion of the night As she accepted her award, she joked that she was grateful to the Academy for not being offended by the words “women” and “talking” together. “First of all, I just want to thank The Academy for not being mortally offended by the words ‘women’ and ‘talking’ put so close together like that.
Cheers,” she said. She also gave mention to fellow Canadian, Miriam Toews, who wrote the 2018 novel of the same name, which inspired the film. “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. Polley’s feature film directorial debut “Away From Her” was also nominated in this category in 2008, but she lost out to Joel and Ethan Coen’s “No Country For Old Men”.
Based on a true story, “Women Talking” explores a remote religious colony where the male elders use a series of excuses to explain away years of drugged sexual assaults on the group’s women and girls, leaving many pregnant or dead.
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