

It was produced by Plan B Entertainment, Orion Pictures and Hear/Say Productions with Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and McDormand producing. RELATED: The 2023 Oscars’ Biggest Moments, Snubs And Surprises It stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, August Winter, Ben Whishaw, Kira Guloien, Shayla Brown, Emily Mitchell, Nathaniel McParland and Eli Ham. The truth comes out and the women talk about finding a solution to their situation. Women Talking follows the women of an isolated religious colony who reveal a shocking secret about the colony’s men: for years, the men have occasionally drugged the women and raped them. Most of her novels contain some version of her sister, some version of her mother, some version of. Polley’s feature film directorial debut Away From Her was also nominated in this category in 2008, but she lost out to Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country For Old Men. Miriam Toews gets so close to the fire that the pages of her books may as well be singed. RELATED: Oscars TV Review: Ceremony Tries To Move Past The Slap With Conventional But Cheery, History-Making Night It is based on Toews’ eponymous book and is inspired by real events that occurred at the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia. Women Talking was written and directed by Polley. The win prevented All Quiet on the Western Front, which has been gaining momentum through the night, from becoming the first non-English language film to win the award. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London, before settling in Winnipeg.

Women Talking, which came from Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing, beat All Quiet on the Western Front, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Living and Top Gun: Maverick in the category. Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent.
