Women Talking

Oscar nominee Sarah Polley says, "I've been developing a project based on my experiences going through awards season -- I'm not kidding."

Women Talking, from Amazon’s United Artists Releasing, is also up for Best Picture tonight. RELATED:

The others are Emma Thompson (1995's “Sense and Sensibility”) and last year's winner, Sian Heder (“CODA”). The category's other female winners prevailed as part ...

Jhabvala holds the record with three, her other for 1993’s “The Remains of the Day,” while Bess Meredyth first achieved it as a double nominee at the 2nd Academy Awards in 1930 for “A Woman of Affairs” and “Wonder of Woman.” See our [latest prediction champs](https://www.goldderby.com/best-prediction-scores/awards/league-data/). The script was snubbed completely by BAFTA, which awarded “All Quiet on the Western Front.” Polley rebounded with wins at USC Scripter and the Writers Guild of America Awards to go with her Critics Choice victory. Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens penned 2003’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” with Peter Jackson. [Sarah Polley](https://www.goldderby.com/t/sarah-polley/) took home the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar on Sunday, making her one of the category’s few female winners and giving the category back-to-back female champs for the first time. With Polley’s victory, Best Adapted Screenplay has now gone to women nine times — and twice to the same person, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who triumphed for 1986’s “A Room with a View” and 1992’s “Howards End.” Polley joins Jhabvala as one of four women who’ve won as solo writers.

Sarah Polley won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay on Sunday at the Oscars.

All Quiet on the Western Front, which won the BAFTA Award this season, also has a female co-writer with Lesley Paterson, a Scottish professional triathlete. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery was a faraway third place at +2000. Ahead of Sunday night, Women Talking had -250 odds while All Quiet on the Western Front was just behind at +160.

The film is based on the 2018 eponymous novel by Miriam Toews, and is inspired by real-life events that occurred at the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated ...

In Sarah Polley's Oscar acceptance speech, the writer and director made a powerful case for the power of healthy communication and finding hope.

“Miriam Toews wrote an essential novel about a radical act of democracy in which people who don’t agree on every single issue manage to sit together in a room and carve out a way forward together free of violence. “It’s a promise and a commitment and an anchor and it’s what i’d like to say with all of my might to my three incredible kids, Eve, Isla and Amy as they make their way through this beautiful world.” It’s a complex, nuanced look at the difficulties of effective discussion and at the quiet power of women.

Sarah 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 ...

The majority of winners for the Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Oscar are based on novels. The truth comes out and the women talk about finding a solution to their situation. Women Talking was written and directed by Polley.

"Just want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words women and talking with so close together like that," Polley said.

Women Talking is based on a true story, inspired by events that happened at a remote community in Bolivia. [Sarah Polley](https://movieweb.com/person/sarah-polley/) has won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 95th [Academy Awards](https://movieweb.com/tag/oscars/). And it's what I would like to say with all of my might to my three incredible kids, Eve, Isla, and Amy, as they make their way through this complicated, beautiful world."

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 ...

“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.” 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.

And now, to see Sarah Polley on the stage, as one of the 2023 Oscar winners, accepting an award for her beautiful movie that she wrote and directed brought me ...

To see this film represented on the biggest stage in movies is empowering and gives me so much hope for the future. However, while I’m so hyped for Sarah Polley, and so proud of her, I think it’s still important that we acknowledge how much more this movie deserved. [being snubbed](https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/tom-cruise-nope-and-11-more-huge-snubs-from-the-2023-oscars) in every acting category and Best Director, Women Talking won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, and I'm so hyped about it! I’m so thrilled that this vital story about women making the courageous decision to fight, stay or leave got the recognition it deserved. In fact, [Polley’s Oscar expectations](https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/director-sarah-polleys-oscar-expectations-for-women-talking-were-so-low-she-scheduled-a-doctors-appointment-for-today) for her movie being nominated were so low she had an appointment when they were announced, which is so sad. And now, to see Sarah Polley on the stage, as one of the [2023 Oscar winners](https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/2023-full-list-oscar-winners), accepting an award for her beautiful movie that she wrote and directed brought me so much joy.

'Women Talking' is about a group of women who gather in a hayloft to discuss what steps to take after a series of sexual assaults shocks their remote ...

The movie’s ensemble cast includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley. She was previously nominated in the same category for the 2007 relationship drama “Away from Her.” “Women Talking” is about a group of women who gather in a hayloft to discuss what steps to take after a series of sexual assaults shocks their remote Mennonite community.

Sarah Polley won the Oscar for Women Talking at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. The acclaimed writer and director was competing in the highly c...

The Oscar-winning film is literally a fantasy of female escape, one that helps us imagine a world that for many women does not exist.

… All we have are our dreams, so of course we’re dreamers.” The one song we hear that isn’t a hymn comes from the radio of a truck: “Daydream Believer” by the Monkees. In a culture so patriarchal that women are never taught to read and write, would they have the language to discuss the nature of forgiveness, complicity, power and pacifism? In Manitoba Colony, an ultraconservative religious community in Bolivia, more than 150 women and girls were [drugged and raped in the night for years](https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-48265703) before discovering, in 2009, that they had been preyed on not by demons, as they had been led to believe, or by their “ [wild female imagination](https://www.vice.com/en/article/4w7gqj/the-ghost-rapes-of-bolivia-000300-v20n8#:~:text=Some%20called%20it%20%22wild%20female%20imagination.%22),” but by men of the colony armed with a cow tranquilizer and a culture of silence. But we do need movies that help us imagine a world where, as Rooney Mara’s Ona puts it, “ The action rarely leaves the hayloft and never leaves the farm. Yet that’s exactly what our daring band of (mostly) brothers manages to do. “Top Gun: Maverick.” In a culture so oppressive that victims were afraid to tell anyone they were attacked, could they be so bold as to plot their response? In real life, they would be more frantic. In real life, they would be more fearful. [we learn it’s 2010](https://deadline.com/2023/01/women-talking-screenplay-read-sarah-polley-script-1235212167/) from an announcement blaring from speakers on a pickup truck. But the light-flecked hayloft, the horse-drawn buggies, the braided hair and plain dresses clearly refer to the Mennonites and the shocking case that [made the news](https://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2087711,00.html) more than a decade ago.

Filmmaker Sarah Polley won the Oscar for 'Women Talking,' a film based on the Miriam Toews novel about women in an isolated religious colony.

Women Talking was also a nominee for best picture at the Academy Awards. It shares the story of a group of women in an isolated religious community who grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Miriam Toews and inspired by events at a Mennonite community in Bolivia.