Go Sarah Go!

The Oscar nominations came out this morning, and you can read all about 'em at http://www.oscar.com/. A few quibbles aside, I'm very pleased that the Academy recognized such a diverse crop of interesting films. And most of all I love that Away from Her - my favorite film of the year - scored an inevitable Best Actress nod for Julie Christie and a surprise but hugely deserved nod for Sarah Polley's smart and sensitive adaptation of Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain." She'll lose to the Coen Brothers, of course. But this is a major career leap for Sarah, who got her start as pesky lil' Ramona Quimby on Canadian public TV and went on to great roles Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, My Life Without Me and other films.