Sarah Polley
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Bio
SARAH POLLEY is a Governor General’s Award-winning writer-director-producer whose dramatic features include Away from Her (nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and winner of the Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture and Achievement in Direction) and Take This Waltz. Her autobiographical Stories We Tell was awarded Best Documentary by the Toronto Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The film was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Polley’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace for Netflix and CBC, which she Executive Produced, garnered six Canadian Screen Awards including Best Screenplay, Director, Actress and Limited Series. Sarah served as Executive Producer on Attiya Khan’s A Better Man and co-directed and executive produced the web series Hey Lady!.
Polley wrote and directed the film Women Talking, based on the novel by Miriam Toews, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Her first published work, a collection of essays entitled Run Towards the Danger, published by Penguin Random House, won the Toronto Book Award.
Resume
| Women Talking | Plan B Entertainment | Writer/Director |
| Alias Grace | Netflix/CBC | Writer/ Executive Producer |
| A Better Man | Intervention Productions | Executive Producer |
| Stories We Tell | National Film Board of Canada | Writer/ Director/Executive Producer |
| Take This Waltz | Joe’s Daughter Productions | Writer/ Director/Executive Producer |
| Away From Her | Foundry Films/Lions Gate | Writer/ Director/Executive Producer |
| I Shout Love | Independent/Lions Gate | Writer/ Director/Executive Producer |
| The Harp: The Shield Stories | CBC TV | Writer |
| Don’t Think Twice | Canadian Film Centre | Writer/ Director/Executive Producer |
| The Best Day of My Life | On the Fly 4 Film Festival | Writer/ Director/Executive Producer |
| AWARDS: | ||
| Canadian Screen Award, Best Adapted Screenplay, Alias Grace | ||
| Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Best Documentary Film, Stories We Tell | ||
| New York Film Critics Circle Award, Best Documentary Film, Stories We Tell | ||
| National Board of Review, Best Documentary Film, Stories We Tell | ||
| Writers Guild of American, Best Documentary Screenplay, Stories We Tell | ||
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Best Documentary, Stories We Tell | ||
| Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, Best Documentary Film, Stories We Tell | ||
| Genie Awards (Canadian Film), Claude Jutra Award for Best First Feature, Director, Away From Her | ||
| Genie Award, Best Adapted Screenplay, Away From Her | ||
| Genie Award, Best Director, Away From Her | ||
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Best Female Director, Away From Her | ||
| Genie Awards, Best Live Action Short Drama, I Shout Love | ||
| Academy Awards Nomination, Best Adapted Screenplay, Away From Her | ||
