Filmmaker Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” won for best adapted screenplay, actor Brendan Fraser nabbed the award for best actor for his role in “The Whale,” and director Daniel Roher’s “Navalny” won best documentary.
Toronto filmmaker Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” won for best adapted screenplay.
What ensues is a debate about faith, forgiveness and justice that echoes a real-world discourse about violence against women and abuses of power. “Miriam Toews wrote an essential novel about a radical act of democracy in which people who don’t agree on every single issue managed to sit together in a room and carve out a way forward together, free of violence.Polley’s film beat out “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Living,” “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” and “All Quiet on the Western Front.”In the performance categories, Canadian-American Brendan Fraser nabbed the award for best actor for his role in “The Whale.
“The Whale” is Morot’s fifth collaboration with Aronofsky following “Mother!,” “Noah,” “The Fountain,” and “White Boy Rick.”
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