Toronto — Academy Award-nominee Sarah Polley is receiving the first Anthony Minghella Memorial Award, which recognizes an outstanding contribution to Canada's film industry.
The Canadian Screen Training Centre (CSTC) will present the award to Polley – Oscar-nominated for best adapted screenplay for Away from Her – at the 28th-annual Summer Institute of Film and Television in Ottawa later this month.
“Anthony Minghella was an exceptional director, and to be presented with an award in his name is a special experience for me,” said Polley, who has been acting since the age of nine, and writing and directing since 1999.
British filmmaker Minghella – a long-time supporter of the CSTC – died in a London hospital in March following surgery. He was 54.
