"Australian film director Fred Schepisi adapted the book into a feature film of the same name (released as ""A Cry in the Dark"" outside of Australia and New Zealand). It starred Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain and Sam Neill as Michael Chamberlain. The film gave Streep her eighth Academy Award nomination and her first AFI award. In 2002, ""Lindy"", an opera by Moya Henderson, was produced by Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House. The story was dramatised as a TV miniseries, ""Through My Eyes"" (2004), with Miranda Otto and Craig McLachlan as the Chamberlains. This miniseries was based on"
"a wide audience; she co-starred with Jack Nicholson in the dramas ""Heartburn"" (1986) and ""Ironweed"" (1987), in which she sang onscreen for the first time since the television movie ""Secret Service"" (1977). In ""Evil Angels"" (1988), she played Lindy Chamberlain, an Australian woman who had been convicted of the murder of her infant daughter despite claiming that the baby had been taken by a dingo. Filmed in Australia, Streep won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, a Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best"
"Streep's other Oscar-nominated roles were in ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), ""Silkwood"" (1983), ""Out of Africa"" (1985), ""Ironweed"" (1987), ""Evil Angels"" (1988), ""Postcards from the Edge"" (1990), ""The Bridges of Madison County"" (1995), ""One True Thing"" (1998), ""Music of the Heart"" (1999), ""Adaptation"" (2002), ""The Devil Wears Prada"" (2006), ""Doubt"" (2008), ""Julie & Julia"" (2009), """" (2013), ""Into the Woods"" (2014), ""Florence Foster Jenkins"" (2016), and ""The Post"" (2017). She returned to the stage for the first time in over 20 years in The Public Theater's 2001 revival of ""The Seagull"", and won a second Emmy Award and a Golden"
"Award-nominated role as a ruthless fashion magazine editor in the comedy-drama ""The Devil Wears Prada"". This late-period success led to starring roles in several high-profile films, including the US$609 million-grossing romantic comedy ""Mamma Mia!"" (2008), her highest-grossing release, and the comedy-drama ""Julie & Julia"" (2009), in which she played Julia Child. These roles re-established Streep's stardom in Hollywood. Her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the biopic ""The Iron Lady"" (2011) earned her another Academy Award for Best Actress. The starring role of Katharine Graham in the 2017 drama ""The Post"" garnered Streep her 21st Oscar nomination, more than any actor"
"cast and 4,000 extras. In his review in ""The New York Times"", Vincent Canby said the film ""has much of the manner of a television docudrama, ultimately being a rather comforting celebration of personal triumph over travails so dread and so particular that they have no truly disturbing, larger application. Yet ""A Cry in the Dark"" is better than that, mostly because of another stunning performance by Meryl Streep, who plays Lindy Chamberlain with the kind of virtuosity that seems to redefine the possibilities of screen acting ... Though Sam Neill is very good as Lindy Chamberlain's tormented husband, Miss"
"Becomes Her"" (1992). In 1995, Streep starred opposite Clint Eastwood as an unhappily married woman in ""The Bridges of Madison County"", her biggest critical and commercial success of the decade. Although her dramas of the late 1990s received a mixed reception overall, she was praised for her role as a cancer patient in ""One True Thing"" (1998). She had acclaimed roles in the 2002 films ""Adaptation."" and ""The Hours"", and won a second Emmy Award for the television miniseries ""Angels in America"" a year later, though she failed to replicate her earlier success. This changed in 2006, with an Academy"
"Meryl Streep Mary Louise ""Meryl"" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as the ""best actress of her generation"", Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptation. Nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, she has won three. Streep has received 31 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight - more nominations, and wins, than any other actor. She has also won three Primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for fifteen British Academy Film Awards, and seventeen Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning two each. Streep made her stage debut in ""Trelawny of the Wells"" in"
"Neill star as the Chamberlains, and Streep was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance. The film was released less than two months after the Chamberlains were exonerated by the Northern Territory Court of Appeals of all charges filed against them. Seventh-day Adventist Church pastor Michael Chamberlain (Sam Neill), his wife Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep), their two sons, and their nine-week-old daughter Azaria are on a camping holiday trip in the Outback. With the baby sleeping in their tent, the family is enjoying a barbecue with their fellow campers when a cry is heard. Lindy returns to the tent"
"Emmy nomination for portraying NBC correspondent Betty Rollin's struggle with breast cancer. Her later TV films included the medical drama ""Heartsounds"" (1984) with James Garner, which brought her another Emmy nomination, ""Finnegan Begin Again"" (1985) with Robert Preston, which earned her a CableACE Award nomination, the 1988 mini-series ""Lincoln"", which brought her another Emmy nod for playing Mary Todd Lincoln, and ""Stolen Babies"", for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 1993. Later she reunited with old co-stars in ""Mary and Rhoda"" (2000) with Valerie Harper, and ""The Gin Game"" (2003) (based on the Broadway play),"
"the past 50 years. In 2002, Graham was presented, posthumously, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. In 2002, Graham was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. In 2017, Graham was portrayed by Meryl Streep in the Steven Spielberg film ""The Post"". Streep was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress (among other awards) for her work. On July 14, 2001, Graham fell and struck her head while visiting Sun Valley, Idaho; she died three days later. Her funeral took place at the Washington National Cathedral. Graham is buried in historic Oak Hill"
"and befriended. At the close of 1985, she portrayed legendary country singer Patsy Cline in Karel Reisz's biopic, ""Sweet Dreams"", opposite Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth, and John Goodman. She was nominated a fourth time for an Oscar and came in second place for both the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress. In several interviews, Meryl Streep has stated that she ""begged"" Reisz, who directed her in 1981's ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", for the role of Cline, but that his first choice had always been Lange. Streep has"
"won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in ""Coal Miner's Daughter"" (1980). Her other Oscar nominated roles include ""Missing"" (1982), ""The River"" (1984), ""Crimes of the Heart"" (1986) and ""In the Bedroom"" (2001). Her other films include ""Raggedy Man"" (1981), ""JFK"" (1991), ""Affliction"" (1997), ""The Straight Story"" (1999), ""Tuck Everlasting"" (2002), ""Nine Lives"" (2005), ""The Help"" (2011), and ""The Old Man & the Gun"" (2018). On television, Spacek received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for ""The Good Old Boys"" (1995), ""Last Call"" (2002), ""Big Love"" (2011) and portrayed matriarch Sally Rayburn on the Netflix thriller"
"confusion, but is gleeful that her plan has succeeded. The movie received positive reviews. It currently holds a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The movie was a modest arthouse success. Crossing Delancey Crossing Delancey is a 1988 American romantic comedy film starring Amy Irving and Peter Riegert. It is directed by Joan Micklin Silver and was based on a play by Susan Sandler, who also wrote the screenplay. Amy Irving was nominated for a Golden Globe for the movie, for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture"
"Deer Hunter"" (1978) proved to be a breakthrough for Streep and she received her first Academy Award nomination for it. She won the award the following year for playing a troubled wife in the top-grossing drama ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" (1979). Also in 1978, Streep played a German married to a Jew in Nazi Germany in the television miniseries ""Holocaust"", which earned her the Emmy Award for Best Actress. Streep established herself as a leading Hollywood actress in the 1980s. She played dual roles in the period drama ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), and starred as a Polish Holocaust survivor in"
"$25,314,189 in the US. Streep was named Best Actress at the Valladolid International Film Festival for her performance. Heartburn (film) Heartburn is a 1986 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. The screenplay, written by Nora Ephron, is based on her novel of the same name, a semi-biographical account of her marriage to Carl Bernstein. The song ""Coming Around Again"" was performed and written by Carly Simon, and became one of her ""Billboard"" hits, reaching #18 on the Hot 100 and #5 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The film was released in"
"of the tormented and mercurial Nathan opposite Meryl Streep. Streep won an Academy Award for her performance in the film. Kline was nominated for a 1983 Golden Globe award (New Star of the Year) and BAFTA Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer To Film. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Kline made several films with director Lawrence Kasdan, including ""The Big Chill"", ""Silverado"", ""Grand Canyon"", ""I Love You to Death"", and ""French Kiss"". He played Donald Woods in Richard Attenborough's ""Cry Freedom"" opposite Denzel Washington about the friendship between Activist Stephen Biko and editor Donald Woods. In 1989, Kline won an"
"Stockholm (with Robert Harling in attendance) titled ""Blommor av Stål""; directed by Emma Bucht and translated by Klas Östergren and Edward af Sillén. The cast: Cecilia Nilsson as Truvy, Pernilla August as M'Lynn, Melinda Kinnaman as Shelby, Suzanne Reuter as Ouiser, Linda Ulvaeus as Annelle and Gunilla Nyroos as Clairee. The play was adapted as a film in 1988 and released in 1989, with a screenplay also by Harling and directed by Herbert Ross. The film was able to expand the story of the play with additional background stories and characters. Julia Roberts was nominated for the Academy Award for"
"published in Australian newspapers. Bryson's best known work is his 1985 book ""Evil Angels"" which chronicles the story of Lindy Chamberlain's trial for murder, following the death of her baby daughter, Azaria. It was made into a film starring Meryl Streep in 1988. It was released under its original title, ""Evil Angels"", in Australia and New Zealand and as ""A Cry in the Dark"" in other English-speaking territories, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and South Africa. It is also known by similar titles internationally. Bryson is also the author of a 1981 collection of short fiction, ""Whoring"
"1. Cate Blanchett – ""Blue Jasmine"" <br> 2. Brie Larson – ""Short Term 12"" <br> 3. Adèle Exarchopoulos – ""Blue Is the Warmest Colour"" <br> 3. Julie Delpy – ""Before Midnight"" 1. James Franco – ""Spring Breakers"" <br> 2. Jared Leto – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" <br> 3. Barkhad Abdi – ""Captain Phillips"" 1. Jennifer Lawrence – ""American Hustle"" <br> 2. Lupita Nyong'o – ""12 Years a Slave"" <br> 3. Léa Seydoux – ""Blue Is the Warmest Colour"" <br> 3. Sally Hawkins – ""Blue Jasmine"" 1. Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy – ""Before Midnight"" <br> 2. Joel Coen and"
"ourselves. In love and hope and optimism - you know, the magic things that seem inexplicable. Why we are the way we are. I do have a sense of trying to make things better. Where does that come from?"" Meryl Streep Mary Louise ""Meryl"" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as the ""best actress of her generation"", Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptation. Nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, she has won three. Streep has received 31 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight - more nominations, and wins, than any other"
"highlight in ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"". Byatt described her motivation for responding in her essays in ""On Histories and Stories"", saying: The novel was adapted as a 1981 film, written by playwright Harold Pinter and directed by Karel Reisz. The production staff included composer Carl Davis and the cinematographer Freddie Francis. The film starred Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons with Hilton McRae, Jean Faulds, Peter Vaughan, Colin Jeavons, Liz Smith, Patience Collier, Richard Griffiths, David Warner, Alun Armstrong, Penelope Wilton and Leo McKern. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Streep was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress"
"1. Kirsten Dunst – ""Melancholia"" (39)<br> 2. Yoon Jeong-hee – ""Poetry"" (25)<br> 3. Meryl Streep – ""The Iron Lady"" (20) 1. Albert Brooks – ""Drive"" (38)<br> 2. Christopher Plummer – ""Beginners"" (24)<br> 3. Patton Oswalt – ""Young Adult"" (19) 1. Jessica Chastain – ""The Help"", ""Take Shelter"", and ""The Tree of Life"" (30)<br> 2. Jeannie Berlin – ""Margaret"" (19)<br> 3. Shailene Woodley – ""The Descendants"" (17) 1. Asghar Farhadi – ""A Separation"" (39)<br> 2. Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin – ""Moneyball"" (22)<br> 3. Woody Allen – ""Midnight in Paris"" (16) 1. Emmanuel Lubezki – ""The Tree of Life"" (76)<br> 2."
"received Academy Award nominations for their performances, in the categories of Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. In June 1995, despite a lack of hiking experience, recent divorcée Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) leaves Minneapolis, Minnesota, to hike 1,100 miles of the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail on a journey of self-discovery and healing. During the hike, Strayed reflects in flashbacks on her childhood in Minnesota and memories of her mother, Bobbi Grey (Laura Dern). Bobbi's death from cancer sent Cheryl into a deep depression that she tried to numb with heroin and anonymous sex, which eventually destroyed her marriage to"
"Daryl Hannah Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American actress and environmental activist. She made her screen debut in Brian De Palma's supernatural horror film ""The Fury"" (1978). She is known for her roles as Pris Stratton in Ridley Scott's science fiction thriller ""Blade Runner"" (1982) and as Cathy Featherstone in Randal Kleiser's romantic comedy ""Summer Lovers"" (1982), as the mermaid Madison in Ron Howard's fantasy-romantic comedy ""Splash"" (1984), Roxanne Kowalski in the romantic comedy ""Roxanne"" (1987), Darien Taylor in Oliver Stone's drama ""Wall Street"" (1987) and Annelle Dupuy Desoto in the comedy-drama ""Steel Magnolias"" (1989). In"
"""My Brilliant Career"", two AFI Awards as Best Actress for ""Winter of Our Dreams"" (1981) and Supporting Actress for ""Hoodwink"" (1981), and later went onto receive Academy Award nominations for ""A Passage to India"" (1984) and ""Husbands and Wives"" (1992). Her other films roles include ""High Rolling"" (1977), ""Who Dares Wins"" (1982), ""Heatwave"" (1983), ""High Tide"" (1987), ""Georgia"" (1988), ""Alice"" (1990), George Sand in ""Impromptu"" (1991), ""Barton Fink"" (1991), ""Dark Blood"" (1993), ""Absolute Power"" (1997), ""Deconstructing Harry"" (1997), ""Celebrity"" (1998), ""The Man Who Sued God"" (2001), ""The Break-up"" (2006), Anne d'Arpajon in ""Marie Antoinette"" (2006), ""The Eye of the Storm"""
"year. ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy was a critical and financial success, and the third film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2004. Otto's performance earned her an Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Otto's next project was the Australian television miniseries ""Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story"" (2004). The film is a drama that portrays the story of Lindy Chamberlain, who was convicted in 1982 of killing her baby daughter, Azaria, in one of Australia's most publicized murder trials. Otto was cast as Chamberlain after her husband, Peter"
"of Skopelos. An instant box office success, ""Mamma Mia!"" became Streep's highest-grossing film to date, with box office receipts of US$602.6 million, also ranking it first among the highest-grossing musical films. Nominated for another Golden Globe, Streep's performance was generally well received by critics, with Wesley Morris of ""The Boston Globe"" commenting: ""The greatest actor in American movies has finally become a movie star."" ""Doubt"" (also 2008) features Streep with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. A drama revolving around the stern principal nun (Streep) of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 who brings accusations of pedophilia against"
"along with his plans and help him free Christine. This film is not to be confused with the 1988 film of the same title starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi. Red Heat (1985 film) Red Heat is a 1985 women in prison film starring Linda Blair and Sylvia Kristel. Christine Carlson (Linda Blair), an American college student, travels to West Germany to visit her fiancé Mike (William Ostrander), who is serving in the US Army there. She tries to convince him to marry her promptly, but he chooses to delay marriage in order to re-enlist. Distraught by Mike's decision, Christine"
"Victor Du Bois and Steven Rosenblum ""In America"" ""Lost in Translation"" ""City of God (Cidade de Deus)"", Brazil ""The Last Samurai"" – Hans Zimmer ""Siente mi amor"" – ""Once Upon a Time in Mexico"" ""Mystic River"" – Brian Helgeland ""Lost in Translation"" – Sofia Coppola Djimon Hounsou – ""In America"" Eugene Levy – ""A Mighty Wind"" Maria Bello – ""The Cooler"" Patricia Clarkson – ""Pieces of April"" Michael Chiklis – ""The Shield"" Bernie Mac – ""The Bernie Mac Show"" James Woods – """" CCH Pounder – ""The Shield"" Jane Kaczmarek – ""Malcolm in the Middle"" Meryl Streep – ""Angels in"
"1988: Pete Dexter — ""Paris Trout"" 1989: John Casey — ""Spartina"" 1990: Charles Johnson — ""Middle Passage"" 1991: Norman Rush — ""Mating"" 1992: Cormac McCarthy — ""All the Pretty Horses"" 1993: E. Annie Proulx — ""The Shipping News"" 1994: William Gaddis — ""A Frolic of His Own"" 1995: Philip Roth — ""Sabbath's Theater"" 1996: Andrea Barrett — ""Ship Fever and Other Stories"" 1997: Charles Frazier — ""Cold Mountain"" 1998: Alice McDermott — ""Charming Billy"" 1999: Ha Jin — ""Waiting"" 2000: Susan Sontag — ""In America"" 2001: Jonathan Franzen — ""The Corrections"" 2002: Julia Glass — ""Three Junes"" 2003: Shirley Hazzard"
"widow from Brooklyn, opposite Matthew Modine as the undercover FBI agent assigned the task of investigating her mafia connections. As a slippery mob boss romantically pursuing Angela, Dean Stockwell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. It currently holds a 91% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes ""She-Devil"" is a 1989 American film starring Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr. It was directed by Susan Seidelman, and is the second adaptation of the novel ""The Life and Loves of a She-Devil"", by British writer Fay Weldon, after a BBC TV adaptation was first broadcast in 1986. For her role,"
"1975. In 1976, she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for ""27 Wagons Full of Cotton"" and ""A Memory of Two Mondays"". In 1977, she made her screen debut in the television film ""The Deadliest Season"", and also made her film debut in ""Julia"". In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the mini-series ""Holocaust"", and received her first Academy Award nomination for ""The Deer Hunter"". Streep went on to win Best Supporting Actress for ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" (1979), and Best Actress for ""Sophie's Choice"" (1982) and ""The Iron Lady"" (2011)."
"has - grinning, eye-rolling, bouncing, and at one point, looking right at us [...] It's an electric image that's been 30 years in coming. The greatest actor in American movies has finally become a movie star."" Streep's other film of 2008 was ""Doubt"", featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. An adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning fictional stage play """", also written and directed by Shanley, the drama revolves around the stern principal nun (Streep) of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964 who brings charges of pedophilia against a popular priest (Hoffman). Hand-picked by Shanley, who"