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Recent Oscar winner Sarah Polley has revealed her huge shock on Saturday morning at receiving a letter saying she had won her award in error, and she needed to mail it back to the Academy.  The Canadian filmmaker, who won best adapted screenplay for Women Talking last month, was told: “We say…

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 talking with so close together like that," she said as her film won the award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay). Related…

As the old saying goes, write what you know, and for Women Talking filmmaker Sarah Polley, who is up for an Adapted Screenplay Oscar on Sunday, she’s been through so much of the campaign process that her next movie is set around awards season. Related Stories …

Sarah Polley was practically born into this business, starting as a child actress at age 5, finding stardom soon after, and now it is why she is most comfortable behind the camera as writer and director. Her latest filmmaking endeavor, Women Talking, earned…

Writer-director Sarah Polley and producer Dede Gardner joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees to discuss Women Talking, their film that is nominated for a pair of Oscars, for Best Picture and Polley’s adapted screenplay. The all-star cast includes Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire…

While studios took advantage of expanding their Oscar nominated Best Pictures this weekend — it’s truly a post-apocalyptic, err, post-pandemic marketplace when it comes to reaping any huge box office afterglow from this year’s crop. And the irony is that there’s only one streaming title among the top 10…

EXCLUSIVE: Sheila McCarthy, who can currently be seen in Sarah Polley’s Oscar-nominated film Women Talking, has signed with Atlas Artists for management. McCarthy appears opposite Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, and Ben Whishaw in Women Talking, nominated for…

The Oscar nominations revealed Tuesday lay out a Best Picture race that encompasses a broad range of films, from box office blockbusters like Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick to a movie that made its debut at a non-traditional awards-launching festival (Everything Everywhere All at Once, at…

Alcarràs, winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin, opens on five screens in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, presented by Mubi; Quiver Distribution releases Candy Land in nine theaters; and Sony's Tom Hanks-starring A Man Called Otto, UAR's Women Talking and IFC Films' Corsage move into moderate expansions…

Editor’s note: Deadline's Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year's movie awards race. Should we stay, or should we go? This is the question asked by the women of an isolated religious community in the awards-contending drama Women Talki…

UPDATED with more on Women Talking and latest grosses, including No Bears: New Yorkers braved the cold this weekend for Corsage at two theaters ( IFC Center, Film at Lincoln Center) as Marie Kreutzer's biopic of Empress Elisabeth of Austria starring Vicky Krieps grossed an estimated $32,500 over the…

Patti Smith hosted a New York screening of Corsage last week, one of many showings since the Oscar-shortlisted Best International Feature contender premiered to a warm welcome in Cannes, where it won Best Performance, Un Certain Regard, for star Vicky Krieps as the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Sisi for…