Split awards for Ellen Page

Ellen Page did not win the Oscar for Best Actress for "Juno," but she did win Best Actress at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday.

If you had said that all the Oscar acting awards were going to people born outside the U.S., you would have thought the Halifax-born Page had a good shot. Then again, four out of the five entries for Best Actress were foreign-born (Laura Linney was the only U.S. born nominee).

Still, it was a good weekend for Page. Hopefully, we will see her other work get more notice, such as "The Tracey Fragments," which played in the Toronto International Film Festival last September along with Juno. Page will be around for a long, long time.

Sarah Polley didn't win Best Adapted Screenplay either, losing to the Coen brothers for "No Country for Old Men." But she has received a great deal of recognition for her first writing and directing of a movie: here is a list of awards and nominations she has received.

There will still be more of Polley, on and off screen, for a long, long time to come.