Several Canadians came away with first-time Oscar wins at the Academy Awards Sunday night.
Toronto filmmaker Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” won for best adapted screenplay.
It’s the first career Oscar for Polley, whose film also received a best picture nomination but lost to the interdimensional drama “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
“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.
What ensues is a debate about faith, forgiveness and justice that echoes a real-world discourse about violence against women and abuses of power….