TORONTO — Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley has received her first Directors Guild of America (DGA) award nomination for her documentary Stories We Tell.
The DGA announced the five contenders on Monday. A winner will be revealed at the 66th DGA Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Jan. 25.
Stories We Tell, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, explores the relationship between her parents Michael and Diane Polley and the revelation that Sarah is the product of an extramarital affair.
The film debuted in 2012 at the Venice International Film Festival and had its Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Polley is competing for the DGA award against Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer, Jehane Noujaim’s The Square, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing and Lucy Walker’s The Crash Reel. All by Noujaim are first-time nominees.
The five nominated films are also on the shortlist of documentaries from which the Academy Award nominees for Best Documentary Feature will be selected.
Earlier this month, Stories We Tell was a winner at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and last year it was honoured with an award from the Toronto Film Critics Association.
Polley, 35, directed the acclaimed 2006 drama Away From Her, which earned her an Oscar nomination for Adapted Screenplay.
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