Question: Anna Hamilton Phelan was nominated for an Oscar for the depiction of what naturalist's life?

Context articles: Anna Hamilton Phelan
Amelia (film)
Lillias Hamilton
Phelan Simpson
Mary Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn
Les Sœurs Vatard
Into the Homeland
Gorillas in the Mist
Michael Phelan (hurler)
Nora Wall

Anna Hamilton Phelan is an American actress and scriptwriter.
 She has been nominated for an Oscar for her work on "Gorillas in the Mist", as well as a nomination for a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on "Mask" and again for "Gorillas in the Mist".
Amelia is a 2009 Canadian-American biographical film about the life of Amelia Earhart.
 The film was directed by Mira Nair and starred Hilary Swank as Earhart and Richard Gere as her husband, George Putnam.
 The cast list also included Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGregor.
 Most of the story is told in flashbacks before ending with Earhart's mysterious disappearance.
 The film was written by Ronald Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan, using research from sources including "East to the Dawn" by Susan Butler and "The Sound of Wings" by Mary S. Lovell.
 The film has garnered predominantly negative reviews.
Dr Lillias Anna Hamilton M.D., (7 February 1858 – 6 January 1925) was a British pioneer female doctor and author.
 She was born at Tomabil Station, New South Wales to Hugh Hamilton (1822-1900) and his wife Margaret Clunes (née Innes).
 After attending school in Ayr and then Cheltenham Ladies' College, she trained first as a nurse, in Liverpool, before going on to study medicine in Scotland, qualifying as a Doctor of Medicine in 1890.
Phelan Simpson (born January 24, 1996) is a Canadian former competitive pair skater.
 With Mary Orr, he finished in the top ten at the 2014 and 2015 World Junior Championships.
 In retired life, Phelan enjoys Krav Maga and has achevived a level 1 status (claims can pass level 2).
 As of August 16th 2017, Phelan is styling new hair and rocks a banging hair cut courtesy of Sport Clips.
Mary Anna Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn (née Curzon-Howe; 23 July 1848 – 10 May 1929), was an English aristocrat.
 She was the daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe and Anne Gore.
Les Sœurs Vatard (English: "The Vatard Sisters") is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1879.
 It was the author's second novel.
 His first, "Marthe" (1876), had earned the praise of Émile Zola and Huysmans had come to be associated with the older author and his Naturalist school of fiction.
 "Les Sœurs Vatard" shows the clear influence of Naturalism, being a realistic depiction of working-class life based on meticulous documentation.
Into The Homeland is a 1987 made for TV crime drama that aired on HBO on December 26, 1987 directed by Lesli Linka Glatter and starring Powers Boothe, C. Thomas Howell, Paul LeMat and Cindy Pickett.
 The screenplay was written by Anna Hamilton Phelan.
Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 American drama film directed by Michael Apted and starring Sigourney Weaver as naturalist Dian Fossey.
 It tells the true story of her work in Rwanda with mountain gorillas and was nominated for five Academy Awards.
Michael 'Titch' Phelan (born 1967), from Glenmore, County Kilkenny, Ireland, is a former inter-county hurler.
 Phelan was formally recognised as a sportsperson of national significance in 1992 when nominated as a GAA Allstar.
 He played both for his local club Glenmore and as a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team for over a decade in the 1980s and 1990s.
 Phelan, playing mid-field, although he "mastered [his] opponents in the first half", narrowly missed out on an All-Ireland senior medal in 1991 when Tipperary beat Kilkenny by four points.
Nora Wall (formerly Sister Dominic) (born 1948) is a former Irish nun of the Sisters of Mercy who was wrongfully convicted of rape in June 1999, and served four days of a life sentence in July 1999, before her conviction was quashed.
 She was officially declared the victim of a miscarriage of justice in December 2005.
 The wrongful conviction was based on false allegations by two women in their 20s, Regina Walsh (born 8 January 1978) and Patricia Phelan (born 1973).
 Walsh had a psychiatric history and Phelan had a history of making false allegations of rape prior to the event.
 Phelan subsequently admitted to having lied.