Sarah Polley, “Women Talking”

Park Chan-wook, “Decision to Leave” Alejandro G. Iñárritu,

“Bardo”

Gina Prince-Bythewood, “The Woman King” Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”

It will be Sarah Polley’s year. She did a beautiful job adapting “Women Talking” from the book and made it her own masterful work. It’s not easy to make a film with so much dialogue and so little action as compelling as it is. Plus, there’s a lot of admiration and affection for her.