Sarah Polley: 5 things you need to know about the ‘Talking Women’ director turned down for an Oscar nomination

• Sarah Polley (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker and former actress.
• She is a former child actress.
• In 2023 she was rejected, along with all the other directors, for the 95th edition of the Academy Awards.

When the 95th Academy Awards unveiled their nominations on Tuesday (January 24), the Best Picture category included some anticipated nominees (The Fabelmans, The Banshees of Inisherin), some big-budget surprises (Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Waterway) and some indie darlings (Triangle of sadness, Tar). One of the pleasant surprises was women talking, by Sarah Polley adaptation of Miriam Towes’ novel of the same name. Unfortunately, what hasn’t been so surprising is that Sarah not Get nominated for Best Director.

Although five films were nominated for Best Picture, only five films were nominated for Best Director, resulting in six men being nominated: Steven Spielberg (Legendary men), Martin McDonagh (Banshee of Inisherin), Camp Todd (Tar), Reuben Ostlund (triangle of sadness), daniel kwan Y daniele schienert (All everywhere at once). Polley earned a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. like IndieWire kate erbland noted, “Other female filmmakers who have made some of the year’s highest-rated films … left out on the morning of the nomination include the woman king helmet Gina Prince Bythewood rookie director Charlotte Wells (whose, whose After the sun proved a favorite among critical groups and other smaller bodies), She said director Maria SchraderY as far as helmet Chinonye Chukwu.”

The Oscars, which this year nominate only men, break the unbroken streak of the Academy. In 2022, jane champion won Best Director for the power of the dog. It was the first time in the Academy’s 94-year history that women had won Best Director in consecutive years, with Chloe Zhao collecting the award in 2021 a nomadic land. Only seven women have been nominated a total of eight times, for PEOPLEand Sarah fails to add her name to that little club.

Ahead of the March 13 ceremony, here’s what you need to know about Sarah.

Sarah Polley is a Canadian director.

Sarah Polley Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sarah began her career in front of the camera. A Monty Python superfan, she convinced her parents to let her audition for a film directed by Monty Python Terry Gilliam. She got the role of Sally Salt in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. By this point, she had already landed a handful of film and television roles.

One of her biggest television roles was the lead role in ramona, the 1988 adaptation of Beverly Clearly’s books. Her other notable television work of hers was in the 1990s when she played Sara Stanley road to Avonleaa period piece set in early 20th century Eastern Canada.

His film roles include 2004 morning of the dead, 2009 Amendment, 1998 Geneva1999 existenceand his latest film, 2010 Started.

He quietly switched careers in the early 2000s.

In the early 2000s, Sarah transitioned from acting to writing and directing. In 2006 you made your feature film directorial debut with away from her, which earned him the Canadian Screen Award for Best Director. He also earned his first Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. From there, she worked extensively as a director, writer and producer of short films, feature films and television episodes. Her film resume includes I say this waltz, He Stories we tell documentary and women talking.

The story of women talking “It raised so many questions for me that I wanted to unpack it,” he tells IndieWire, “but even this was a movie that I wanted in the world for my kids in terms of what it had to say about how you look at a world that doesn’t work right, productive, how to imagine a world that can work, and how to take the initiative to create it.It was worth a few months when he was busy.

Sara is married to David Sandomierski. They have three children together. She was once married to the editor. David wharnsby.

I had an experience with Harvey Weinstein

In 2017, Sarah wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times newspaper detailing their experiences with hayweinstein. “One day when I was 19, I was in the middle of a photo shoot for a Miramax film when I was suddenly told it was time to go. …’Are we done here?’ I asked. ‘No’ was the answer. “But Harvey wants you there now.”

Sarah detailed an incident where Harvey hoped to develop a “very close relationship” with Sarah to help him in his career. “. The implication wasn’t subtle,” Sarah said. She used her opinion piece to say how she had seen “women constantly pressured to explore their sexuality and then punished like whores for doing so. Women in technical roles were almost non-existent and when they were there they were constantly being tested to see if they really knew what they were doing. You felt alone, in a sea of ​​men.”

“Shortly after that, I started writing and directing short films,” he wrote. “I had no idea, until then, how little respect he had as an actor. Now there were no assistant directors trying to get me to sit on his lap, no group of men standing around to gauge how I looked with a particular item of clothing. He could decide what he thought was important to say, like filming a woman without making her sexuality a focal point without context. When I was in my early 20s, I made my first feature film, away from her.”

she is a survivor

In Sarah’s 2022 memoir, run towards danger, detailed her life on stage, screen and in film. Her autobiographical essay collection includes “The Woman Who Was Silent,” in which she describes why she did not say she was sexually assaulted by musician and former CBC personality Jian Ghomeshi. Jian was charged with four counts of sexual assault stemming from allegations by three women. The judge later ruled that Gomeshi was not guilty due to a lack of evidence to prove Ghomeshi’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

“There is no other evidence to determine the truth. There is no tangible evidence. There is no DNA. There is no such thing as a ‘smoking gun,'” wrote the judge, per The Guardian.

He doesn’t want you to throw away his “Brazil” DVD.

In her memoir, Sarah detailed how Terry Gilliam created a dangerous environment at munchhausen, especially for a child actor. “I love Terry Gilliam movies,” he told IndieWire. “I refuse to think of him as a monster. I don’t think he is. I think he screwed up a lot and didn’t take responsibility for it, and that sucks. But he also had great qualities and did a wonderful job. I just feel like I’m interested in having a conversation with him and hearing his perspective on what he saw. I would expect you to hear mine.

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