Sarah Polley was awarded an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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.
When the men responsible for the assaults are caught and put in custody, the women must decide whether to stay within the community or leave.“We felt like we wereSarah Polley attends the 95th Annual Academy Awards on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California.“There’s 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.
In the male-dominated film industry, Polley said she was grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with so many talented women, but noted that people of all genders helped bring the film’s conversation to the big screen.“Everyone on the cast and crew came to this in such a generous spirit,” she said. “It wasn’t just the women on set who wanted to bring those experiences of abuse and of feeling powerless, and of moving through it and a building a better life and hopefully a better world.
Polley, who got her start as a child actor and rose to become an acclaimed writer and director, was competing against films “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”, “Living, Top Gun: Maverick” and “All Quiet on the Western Front”.
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