Which film starring Meryl Streep in 1985, won 7 Oscars?
"wrote, ""Meryl Streep is back in top form. This means her performance in ""Out of Africa"" is at the highest level of acting in film today."" Longworth notes that the dramatic success of ""Out of Africa"" led to a backlash of critical opinion against Streep in the years that followed, especially as she was now demanding $4 million a picture. Unlike other stars at the time, such as Sylvester Stallone and Tom Cruise, Streep ""never seemed to play herself"", and certain critics felt her technical finesse led people to literally see her acting. Her next films did not appeal to"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Academy Awards, winning five : Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (for Hoffman), Best Supporting Actress (for Streep), and Best Adapted Screenplay. Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is a workaholic advertising executive who has just been assigned a new and very important account. Ted arrives home and shares the good news with his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) only to find that she is leaving him. Saying that she needs to find herself, she leaves Ted to raise their son Billy (Justin Henry) by himself. Ted and Billy initially resent one another as Ted no longer has time to carry his increased"
"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"
"do it with such gentleness and charm... Streep creates a whole character around a woman who could have simply been a catalogue of symptoms."" Plenty (film) Plenty is a 1985 drama film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Meryl Streep. It was adapted from David Hare's play of the same name. Spanning nearly 20 years from the early 1940s to the 1960s, the plot focuses on Susan Traherne, an Englishwoman who is irreparably changed by her experiences as a fighter for the French Resistance during World War II when she has a one-night stand with a British intelligence agent. After"
"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"
"It was on this project that Spielberg also met his future wife, actress Kate Capshaw. In 1985, Spielberg released ""The Color Purple,"" an adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, about a generation of empowered African-American women during depression-era America. Starring Whoopi Goldberg and future talk-show superstar Oprah Winfrey, the film was a box office smash and critics hailed Spielberg's successful foray into the dramatic genre. Roger Ebert proclaimed it the best film of the year and later entered it into his Great Films archive. The film received eleven Academy Award nominations, including two for Goldberg"
"film was nominated at both the Critics' Choice Awards and the Satellite Awards and garnered Meyers two Golden Globe nominations, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Screenplay. Streep and Baldwin each were individually recognized with Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Golden Globe and BAFTA award ceremonies, respectively. Jane (Meryl Streep), who owns a successful bakery in Santa Barbara, California, and Jake Adler (Alec Baldwin), a successful attorney, divorced ten years earlier. They had three children together, two girls and a boy, who are grown. Jake, who was cheating on Jane, married the"
"to play Claus von Stauffenberg, the protagonist. This project marked the second production to be greenlighted since Cruise and Wagner took control of United Artists. The first was its inaugural film, ""Lions for Lambs"", directed by Robert Redford and starring Redford, Meryl Streep and Cruise. ""Lambs"" was released on November 9, 2007, opening to unimpressive box office revenue and critical reception. In August 2008, Wagner stepped down from her position at United Artists; she retains her stake in UA, which combined with Cruise's share amounts to 30 percent of the studio. Cruise has been divorced three times and has three"
"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"
"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"
"100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition). Academy Awards BAFTA Awards Golden Globe Awards Writers Guild of America Streep also made a clean sweep in the Best Actress categories at all major critics groups: National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics and Boston Society of Film Critics Sophie's Choice (film) Sophie's Choice is a 1982 American drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, who adapted William Styron's novel of the same name. Meryl Streep stars as Sophie, a Polish immigrant who shares a boarding house in Brooklyn with her tempestuous"
"89th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Costume Design and earned Streep her 20th nomination for Best Actress. It received four Golden Globe nominations, including Best Picture. In 1944, Florence Foster Jenkins is a New York City socialite heiress who founded the Verdi Club to celebrate her love of music. St. Clair Bayfield, a British Shakespearean actor, is her husband and manager. Florence lives in a grand hotel suite, while Bayfield lives in an apartment with his mistress, Kathleen Weatherley. Florence suffers from long-term syphilis, contracted from her first husband. Florence decides to resume singing lessons. She hires pianist"
"to Barbra Streisand's albums. In the film ""Evil Angels"" (1988, released in the U.S. as ""A Cry in the Dark""), in which she portrays a New Zealand transplant to Australia, Streep perfected a hybrid of Australian and New Zealand English. Her performance received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, as well as Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. For her role in the film ""Sophie's Choice"" (1982), Streep spoke both English and German with a Polish accent, as well as Polish itself."
"Actress, National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her collective work in her three film releases of 1979. Both ""The Deer Hunter"" and ""Kramer vs. Kramer"" were major commercial successes and were consecutive winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1979, Streep began workshopping ""Alice in Concert"", a musical version of ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"", with writer and composer Elizabeth Swados and director Joseph Papp; the show was put on at New York's Public Theater from December 1980. Frank Rich of ""The New York"
"Sophie's Choice (film) Sophie's Choice is a 1982 American drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, who adapted William Styron's novel of the same name. Meryl Streep stars as Sophie, a Polish immigrant who shares a boarding house in Brooklyn with her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline in his feature film debut), and a young writer, Stingo (Peter MacNicol). Streep's performance was acclaimed, and she received the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film was nominated for Best Cinematography (Néstor Almendros), Best Costume Design (Albert Wolsky), Best Music (Marvin Hamlisch), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Alan J. Pakula). British company ITC"
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"or actress in history. Meryl Streep on screen and stage Meryl Streep is an American actress who has had an extensive career in film, television, and stage. She made her stage debut in 1975 with The Public Theater production of ""Trelawny of the Wells"". She went on to perform several roles on stage in the 1970s, garnering a Tony Award nomination for her role in ""27 Wagons Full of Cotton"" (1976). In 1977, Streep starred in the television movie ""The Deadliest Season"", and made her film debut with a brief role alongside Jane Fonda in ""Julia"". A supporting role in"
"Plenty (film) Plenty is a 1985 drama film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Meryl Streep. It was adapted from David Hare's play of the same name. Spanning nearly 20 years from the early 1940s to the 1960s, the plot focuses on Susan Traherne, an Englishwoman who is irreparably changed by her experiences as a fighter for the French Resistance during World War II when she has a one-night stand with a British intelligence agent. After the war ends, Susan returns to England and becomes determined to make a life for herself by achieving what she wishes in the post-war"
"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"
"""The Nitty Gritty""; ""The Tinker's Dam""<br> 1982: ""Snow Business""<br> 1983: ""Heroes""; ""The Caprices of Marianne""; ""Goodbye Paradis Can-Can""<br> 1984: ""The Fantastic Adventures of the Count of St. Germain""; ""The Kitchen""; ""The Cloudkeeper""<br> 1985: ""Yang Zen Frogs""; ""Lulu""; ""The Bourgeois Gentleman""; ""Christopher Columbus"";<br> 1986: ""Splendid""; ""Place de Breteuil""; ""August, August, August""; ""Circus""; ""Exit the King""<br> 1987: ""Romeo and Juliet""; ""N'yawk, N'yawk, Who's There?""; ""Lorenzaccio""; ""Cafe Under the Earth""<br> 1988: ""Red Noses""; ""The 7 Dwarves""<br> 1989: ""1789: The French Revolution""; ""Holiday in Kerflooey""; ""Cyrano""; ""The Force of Habit""<br> 1990: ""Some People's Kids""; ""Il Campiello""<br> 1991: ""Puntilla and His Chauffeur Matti""; ""Crusoe, Friday,"
"who serves as narrator, won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for her performance. ""Five Came Back"" explores the experiences of five U.S. film directors – John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens – and their frontline work during the Second World War. It draws on over 100 hours of archival footage and is narrated by Meryl Streep. Each modern director discusses the impact and legacies of one of the five earlier directors: Steven Spielberg (Wyler), Francis Ford Coppola (Huston), Guillermo del Toro (Capra), Paul Greengrass (Ford), and Lawrence Kasdan (Stevens). Netflix is also streaming"
"would go on to win seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Gwyneth Paltrow), Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench), and Best Original Screenplay. In 1593 London, William Shakespeare is a sometime player in the Lord Chamberlain's Men and poor playwright for Philip Henslowe, owner of The Rose Theatre. Shakespeare is working on a new comedy, ""Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter"". Suffering from writer's block, he has barely begun the play, and is further distracted by attempts both to seduce Rosaline, the mistress of Richard Burbage, owner of the rival Curtain Theatre and to convince Burbage to buy the"
"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"
"critical acclaim for her performance. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: As of December 2018, the film holds a rating of 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 20 reviews. Sweet Dreams (1985 film) Sweet Dreams is a 1985 American biographical film which tells the story of country music singer Patsy Cline. The film was written by Robert Getchell and directed by Karel Reisz. It stars Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth, David Clennon, James Staley, Gary Basaraba, John Goodman, and P. J. Soles. The film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress (Jessica Lange)."
"$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"
"Globe in 2004 for the HBO mini-series ""Angels in America"" (2003). Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004, Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2008, and Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2010 National Medal of Arts, and in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2003, the government of France made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. She was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2017. Mary Louise Streep was born"
"The Color Purple (film) The Color Purple is a 1985 American coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg with a screenplay by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous. The film was also the first feature-length film directed by Spielberg for which John Williams did not compose the music. The film stars Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Desreta Jackson, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey (in her film debut), Rae Dawn"
"legend. The film starred Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones as Mooney Lynn. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress Oscar for Spacek and a slew of other top honors, including a gold album for the soundtrack album, a Grammy nomination for Spacek's singing as Lynn, Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music awards, plus several Golden Globe awards. The 1980s featured more hits: (""Pregnant Again"", ""Naked in the Rain"", and ""Somebody Led Me Away""). Her 1980 and 1981 albums ""Loretta"" and ""Lookin' Good"" spawned these hits. Lynn was the first woman in"
"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"