{"id":81612,"date":"2023-03-13T05:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T05:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/13\/sarah-polley-wins-her-1st-ever-oscar-for-woman-talking-national\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T05:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T05:23:11","slug":"sarah-polley-wins-her-1st-ever-oscar-for-woman-talking-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/13\/sarah-polley-wins-her-1st-ever-oscar-for-woman-talking-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Polley wins her 1st ever Oscar for \u2018Woman Talking\u2019 – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sarah Polley<\/a> has received her first Academy Award<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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The Canadian filmmaker<\/a>, who hails from Toronto, Ont., was awarded the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Sunday evening for her film, Women Talking<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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As she accepted her award, she joked that she was grateful to the Academy for not being offended by the phrases \u201cwomen\u201d and \u201ctalking\u201d collectively. <\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, I just want to thank The Academy for not being mortally offended by the words \u2018women\u2019 and \u2018talking\u2019 put so close together like that. Cheers,\u201d she mentioned.<\/p>\n

She additionally gave point out to fellow Canadian, Miriam Toews, who wrote the 2018 novel of the identical title, which impressed the movie. <\/p>\n

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\u201cMiriam Toews wrote an essential novel about a radical democracy in which people who don\u2019t 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,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Polley\u2019s function movie directorial debut Away From Her<\/em> was additionally nominated on this class in 2008, however she misplaced out to Joel and Ethan Coen\u2019s No Country For Old Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Celebrating #InternationalWomensDay<\/a> and the unimaginable girls of #WomenTalking<\/a> \ud83e\udd0d pic.twitter.com\/c0k9yV1S1m<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Women Talking (@Women_Talking) March 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Based on a real story, Women Talking<\/em> explores a distant spiritual colony the place the male elders use a sequence of excuses to clarify away years of drugged sexual assaults on the group\u2019s girls and women, leaving many pregnant or useless. <\/p>\n

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When the lads accountable for the assaults are caught and put in custody, the ladies should determine whether or not to remain throughout the neighborhood or depart. <\/p>\n

The story mirrors comparable occasions that happened in a Manitoba Mennonite Colony in Bolivia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt like we were part of a movement<\/a>, not a movie,\u201d Polley mentioned in an interview final 12 months after the world premiere of Women Talking<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s something essential that we feel is a conversation that should be part of our world, and we want to be part of it with every part of our being.\u201d<\/p>\n