One of the extra revealing moments of the 2023 Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon was the very heat standing ovation Sarah Polley and the solid of “Women Talking” acquired. The movie was honored with the Robert Altman Award which is given to the director, solid and its casting director (on this case Polley’s brother John Buchan together with Jason Knight). But regardless of the movie receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay, the United Artists drama had somebody pale this awards season outdoors of an embarrassing second finally weekend’s SAG Awards the place Mark Wahlberg referred to it as “Women Are Talking.” That being stated, the response from the viewers on the Spirits was an indication of real respect from Polley’s friends. That love continued later Saturday evening on the thirty fifth USC Scripter Awards.
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In an honor given to the unique creator and screenwriter, “Women Talking” gained the movie prize over notable works from “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” “She Said” and “Living.” The fifth nominee, “Top Gun: Maverick,” withdrew its consideration in an underreported transfer for a movie with one of the crucial weird but seemingly profitable award season campaigns in current reminiscence. The award was offered to Polley and novelist Miriam Towes.
Polley will now head to the Academy Awards with a shot at taking the Adapted Screenplay prize in a area that features the aforementioned “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Living” in addition to “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” and perceived frontrunner, “All Quiet on the Western Front.” If she will pull off that win, it could be a beautiful ending for a movie that debuted to acclaim on the Telluride Film Festival nearly six months in the past.
On the tv facet, Will Smith and creator Mick Herron gained for the “Failure’s Contagious” episode of the Apple TV+ restricted collection “Slow Horses.” Other nominees in that class included “The Crown,” “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” “Tokyo Vice” and “Under the Banner of heaven.”
Selected by a committee of business professionals, this was the primary in-person ceremony for the USC Scripter Award since January 2020.