Polley

An Oscar winner has revealed how her 11-year-old daughter pranked her with a letter demanding the return of her prestigious award.Canadian writer and director Sarah Polley scooped her Academy Award for Women Talking - starring…

Newly minted Oscar-winner Sarah Polley says the decade she spent away from the director’s chair prepared her for this latest phase of her career. “It didn’t feel like the end of the world if things didn’t work out this time,” the…

An extraordinary win for Toronto writer-director Sarah Polley was one of many pivotal points during a victorious night for Team Canada at the Oscars, with additional key wins for Montreal prosthetics designer Adrien Morot, Toronto…

Sarah Polley has won her first Academy Award. 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 2023 red…

With Rooney, I’d imagined her as either Mariche or Salome, but then we started talking about Ona. I read hundreds of people for that part and it’s difficult because you have to believe what she says, or she seems kind of ridiculous. Rooney…

Toronto filmmakers Sarah Polley and Domee Shi are among the Canadians competing in the top categories at this year’s Academy Awards. Polley’s “Women Talking” received a best picture Oscar nomination as well as an adapted screenplay…

Sarah Polley hadn't made a film in a decade. But her latest — already a Golden Globe nominee and a likely contender for the 2023 Academy Awards — is a true conversation starter.Women Talking centres around a multi-generational group of…

After all the drama in the awards off-season, it’s gearing up to be another strange year at the Golden Globe Awards. Once again, as has come to be expected from this particular awards show, the Golden Globes chose some unusual…

TORONTO — Over a career that has taken her from child actor to the director’s chair, Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley has spent enough time on set to have a feel for the standard rhythms of a shoot. But there was something different…

New films from Darren Aronofsky, Ruben Östlund and Sarah Polley are set to premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, organizers said, as anticipation builds for the first fully in-person version of the world renowned…