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In continued postings here about Away From Her , I note that Julie Christie and Sarah Polley have just been nominated in Academy Award categories Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay, respectively. The screenplay was adapted from a short story written by Alice Munro.

In continued postings here about Away From Her , I note that yesterday Julie Christie won a Golden Globe award as Best Actress for her performance in the movie. Golden Globe Winners

Sarah Polley has won another award for her movie: From The Vancouver Sun : Polley wins N.Y. film critics award CanWest News Service Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley has won the New York Film Critics Circle's best first film award for her directorial debut Away From Her , an adaptation of Alice Munro's short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain . Academy award-winning actress Julie Christie took the best actress award for her performance in Polley's film as a woman suffering from the onset of Alzheimer's disease. © The Vancouver Sun 2007 [ ... Read the full article ... ]

Love in the Time of Dementia By KATE ZERNIKE Published: November 18, 2007 The New York Times Kudos to the headline writer for the reference to Love in the Time of Cholera , the wonderful book, which after twenty years has now been released as a movie. Kudos also to Kate Zernike for this wonderful first line to her piece in today's Times : "So this, in the end, is what love is." [ ... Read the full piece ... ] Away from Her .

From Australia's National Nine News: Alzheimer's struggle brought to screen Friday Sep 21 08:19 AEST At just 28 years of age, Canadian director Sarah Polley has made a debut feature film that directors twice her age and experience would be proud of. Also a talented actress, she is best known to Australian audiences for her acting roles as a supermarket checkout chick in the 1999 crime thriller Go and a schoolgirl in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter. For her directorial debut, Away From Her , Polley chose to tell the story of a couple in their 60s who are dealing with Alzheimer's disease. It is hardly a film you would expect a 20-something film-maker to produce. The fact that she convinced Oscar winners Julie Christie and Olympia Dukakis to be part of the movie is even more impressive. "During rehearsals, all of a sudden it dawned on me that I was directing people who were twice my age, and who had a good deal more experience than I did, and who were actors that ...