Toronto filmmakers Sarah Polley and Domee Shi are among the Canadians competing in the top categories at this year’s Academy Awards.
Hours after learning she had snagged an Oscar nomination for best animated feature, stunned Toronto filmmaker Domee Shi said the nod offered welcome “validation” that stories led by diverse characters can succeed.
Shi said the honour was especially meaningful because “Turning Red” represented so many firsts in her career, including Pixar’s first film to be led by a predominantly female team and the first film to have an Asian Canadian female lead. It centres on a group of Mennonite women who gather in a hayloft to discuss what to do when they discover several of the colony’s men have been sexually assaulting the community’s women and girls.
Polley was previously nominated for best adapted screenplay for 2007’s “Away From Her,” about a long-married couple impacted by Alzheimer’s disease.
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