1988 Academy Awards® Winners and History Working Girl (1988) Actor: DUSTIN HOFFMAN in "Rain Man", Gene Hackman in "Mississippi Burning", Tom Hanks in "Big", Edward James Olmos in "Stand and Deliver", Max von Sydow in "Pelle the Conqueror" Actress: JODIE FOSTER in "The Accused", Glenn Close in "Dangerous Liaisons", Melanie Griffith in "Working Girl", Meryl Streep in "A Cry in the Dark", Sigourney Weaver in "Gorillas in the Mist" Supporting Actor: KEVIN KLINE in "A Fish Called Wanda", Alec Guinness in "Little Dorritt", Martin Landau in "Tucker: the Man and His Dream", River Phoenix in "Running on Empty", Dean Stockwell in "Married to the Mob" Supporting Actress: GEENA DAVIS in "The Accidental Tourist", Joan Cusack in "Working Girl", Frances McDormand in "Mississippi Burning", Michelle Pfeiffer in "Dangerous Liaisons", Sigourney Weaver in "Working Girl" Director: BARRY LEVINSON for "Rain Man", Charles Crichton for "A Fish Called W

anda", Mike Nichols for "Working Girl", Alan Parker for "Mississippi Burning", Martin Scorsese for "The Last Temptation of Christ" Beginning this year, the trademark phrase: "and the winner is..." was substituted with "and the Oscar goes to..." Director Barry Levinson's critically and financially-successful Rain Man was the major Oscar winner in 1988.

It was the buddy-road saga of the human relationship that gradually develops between two sibling brothers: the elder one a TV-obsessed, institutionalized adult autistic (Hoffman), the other an ambitious, hotshot money-maker/car salesman and hustler (Cruise). The autistic savant's kidnapping from an asylum by his fast-talking brother is with the intent to swindle him of his inheritance, but during a cross-country road trip, a loving relationship develops between the brothers with strong blood ties. Rain Man had a total of eight nominations and four wins - for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay (by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow). It was the year's highest-grossing picture as well, taking in $173 million (domestic).

The other Best Picture nominees included the following: director Lawrence Kasdan's adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel, the psychological drama The Accidental Tourist (with four nominations and one win - Best Supporting Actress), with two co-stars - Kathleen Turner and William Hurt - that Kasdan had teamed together in an earlier film - Body Heat (1981) British director Steven Frears' first American feature film, the lush, pre-Revolutionary France costume drama of competitive sexual seduction Dangerous Liaisons (with seven nominations and three wins - Best Screenplay, Best Art/Set Direction, and Best Costume Design) director Alan Parker's propagandist account of the investigation of the disappearance of three civil rights activists in 1964 in the social drama Mississippi Burning (with seven nominations and only one win - Best Cinematography) director Mike Nichols' sophisticated romantic comedy about 80s corporate ladder-climbing and office politics in Working Girl (with six nominations and one win - Best Song by Carly Simon: "Let the River Run") Two of the five directors of Best Picture nominees were not included in the list of Best Director nominees. The two directors were Steven Frears' Dangerous Liaisons, and Lawrence Kasdan's The Accidental Tourist.

The two directors substituted for them were British director Charles Crichton for the Monty-Pythonesque, farcical caper comedy A Fish Called Wanda (with three nominations: Crichton's two nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay - and one win for Best Supporting Actor), and Martin Scorsese for his controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ (the film's sole nomination!). [This was Crichton's sole directorial nomination in his over-four decades as director, and this was his last theatrical film directorial effort.] It was highly improbable that either Crichton or Scorsese would win the Best Director award - as predicted, they didn't.

[Only once in Academy history has a Best Director Oscar been awarded to a director whose film was not nominated for Best Picture - that happened to director Frank Lloyd for his film The Divine Lady (1928-9).] Dustin Hoffman (with his sixth nomination) won his second Oscar for his role as the institutionalized, ultimately loveable, autistic idiot savant Raymond ('Ray(n)' 'Man(d)') Babbitt who is kidnapped by his ambitious brother Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) and taken on a cross-country trip in Rain Man.

In one memorable scene, Raymond nervously told his brother that he might miss his favorite TV program (The People's Court): "Uh, oh, 12 minutes to Wapner." The other Best Actor nominees were: Gene Hackman (with his fourth nomination) as in-your-face FBI investigating agent Rupert Anderson in Mississippi Burning Tom Hanks (with his first nomination) as body-switched Josh Baskin, a thirteen year old in a 35 year old body in the charming, soul-transference fantasy comedy directed by Penny Marshall Big (with two nominations and no wins) Mexican-American Edward James Olmos (with his first nomination) as inner-city high school math teacher Jaime Escalante in director Ramon Menendez' true-life story Stand and Deliver distinguished actor Max von Sydow (with his first nomination) as a Swedish widower in director Bille August's Swedish drama Pelle the Conqueror 26 year old Jodie Foster (with her second nomination) won her first Oscar, the Best Actress award for her performance as blue-collar, fast-food waitress Sarah Tobias, who is a gang-rape victim (in a road-side bar) accused of prompting her brutal assault because of her provocative demeanor and dress in director Jonathan Kaplan's courtroom

 drama The Accused (the film's sole nomination).

The other Best Actress nominees were: Glenn Close (with her fifth unsuccessful nomination) as wagering, pre-Revolutionary French aristocrat Marquise de Merteuil in a game of sexual seduction/conquest in Dangerous Liaisons Melanie Griffith (with her first nomination) as a victimized Staten Island brokerage firm secretary Tess McGill in Working Girl Meryl Streep (with her eighth nomination, and her sixth Best Actress nomination in the 80s) as Lindy Chamberlain, an unappealing, defiant Australian Seventh Day Adventist mother of a wild dog-kidnapped baby girl who is held responsible for the child's death in director Fred Schepisi's semi-true story, A Cry in the Dark (the film's sole nomination) Sigourney Weaver as controversial hermit Dian Fossey - a crusading, heroic, mountain-gorilla, anthropology expert in the Rwandan rain forest in director Michael Apted's biopic Gorillas in the Mist (with five nominations and no wins) [Double-nominee Weaver was nominated for two simultaneous awards in 1988 - her second and third career nominations. She became the first performer in Oscar history to receive simultaneous nominations in two acting categories and lose both awards.

Her failing 'accomplishment' was repeated by actress Emma Thompson in 1993.] Kevin Kline (with his first nomination), in the first surprise upset in the supporting categories, won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as ex-CIA assassin and ne'er-do-well jewel thief Otto, the crazy boyfriend of seductress thief Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) who wants a repressed English lawyer (John Cleese) to offer bail to a fellow jewel thief in the unlikely comedy A Fish Called Wanda. Other Best Supporting Actor nominees were: Alec Guinness (with his fourth and last career nomination for acting) for his role as William Dorritt in director/screenwriter Christine Edzard's screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' little-read novel Little Dorritt - Guinness was a veteran Dickens actor who had performed in Great Expectations (1946), played the role of Fagin in David Lean's Oliver Twist (1948), and also acted in Scrooge (1970).

Guinness had four acting nominations in his entire career: in 1952 (Best Actor for The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)), 1957 (Best Actor for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - his only win), 1977 (Best Supporting Actor for Star Wars (1977) ), and in this year. He was also nominated, his fifth, for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Horse's Mouth (1958).

favored nominee Martin Landau (with his first nomination) as Abe Karatz, the partner of inventive automaker Tucker in director Francis Ford Coppola's Tucker: the Man and His Dream (with three nominations and no wins) young River Phoenix (with his first nomination) as Danny Pope, the son of fugitive parents in director Sidney Lumet's Running on Empty Dean Stockwell (with his first nomination) as womanizing Mafia don Tony "The Tiger" Russo in director Jonathan Demme's comedy Married to the Mob (the film's sole nomination) Geena Davis (with her first nomination), in a surprise upset, won the Best Supporting Actress award for her (lead!) role as eccentric and wacky divorcee (and Corgi dog-trainer) Muriel Pritchett who is interested in a married travel guide writer (William Hurt) with an estranged wife (Kathleen Turner) in The Accidental Tourist.

Two Best Supporting Actress nominees were co-stars from Working Girl: Joan Cusack (with her first nomination) as Cyn Sigourney Weaver (with her second/third nomination) as brokerage firm executive Katharine Parker The remaining nominees were Frances McDormand (with her first nomination) as conflicted Ku Klux Klan member's wife Mrs. Pell, one of the townsfolk in Mississippi Burning, and Michelle Pfeiffer (with her first nomination) as the reserved, convent-bred Madame de Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons. This year had one of the most potent Best Foreign Language Film competitions in recent years. Bille August's Swedish film Pelle the Conqueror, starring Best Actor-nominated Sydow, defeated two other strong candidates among the field of four: Pedro Almodóvar's popular Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (its sole nomination) and Mira Nair's Indian expose Salaam Bombay! (its sole nomination).

Oscar Snubs and Omissions: Although the technically-outstanding Who Framed Roger Rabbit (with six nominations) was missing from the Best Picture nominees, it tied Best Picture-winning Rain Man, if one counts a Special Achievement Award, with four Oscar wins: Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Visual Effects, and a special recognition for animator Richard Williams. Two directors who should have been nominated, but weren't, were Penny Marshall for Big, and Jonathan Demme for Married to the Mob. A World Apart, Chris Menges' feature film directorial debut about apartheid set in early 1960s South Africa (with Barbara Hershey as journalist Diana Roth) wasn't even nominated in 1988. Neither was Michael Apted nominated as Best Director for Gorillas in the Mist.

Other remarkable performances without nominations included the following: Kevin Costner as veteran ball-player catcher "Crash" Davis and Susan Sarandon as sexy sports "Church of Baseball" groupie Southerner Annie Savoy in writer/director Ron Shelton's minor league baseball adult romantic comedy Bull Durham (with one unsuccessful nomination for Best Original Screenplay) Harrison Ford's first light comedy lead role as the charming but wary businessman Jack Trainer in Working Girl Michael Keaton as the ghostly Beetlejuice in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Michael Palin as stuttering mob hitman Ken in A Fish Called Wanda Leslie Nielsen as the incredibly funny, bumbling Lt. Frank Drebin in David Zucker's The Naked Gun (1988) - a feature length version of the TV show Police Squad black actor Forest Whitaker as legendary saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker in director Clint Eastwood's Bird Tom Cruise as Dustin Hoffman's self-centered, fast-talking hustling brother Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man Tom Hulce as brain-damaged Dominick/Nicky in Robert M.

Young's touching film about fraternal twin brothers named Dominick and Eugene Sally Field as housewife and aspiring comedienne Lilah Krytsick in Punchline William Hurt as distant travel guide writer Macon Leary in The Accidental Tourist John Malkovich as sexually-seductive Vicomte de Valmont in the acclaimed Dangerous Liaisons Eric Bogosian as acidic radio host Barry Champlain, and his tortured ex-wife Ellen (Ellen Greene) in Oliver Stone's Talk Radio (unnominated in any category) Drag queen Divine (Glenn Milstead) in a dual role (one male, one female) in John Waters' cult movie Hairspray as frumpy mother Edna Turnblad and racist sponsor Arvin Hodgepile Alan Rickman as the terrorizing German villain Hans Gruber in the exciting action film Die Hard Jack Palance as bandanna-wearing artist Rudi Cox, and the two female leads: Marianne Sagebrecht as desert-stranded Bavarian tourist Jasmin Munchgstettner and C.C.H.

Pounder as abandoned wife Brenda in director Percy Adlon's first English language film - the offbeat comedy/drama Bagdad Cafe (with one unsuccessful nomination for Best Song, "Calling You") Gena Rowlands as self-probing college professor Marion Post, and Sandy Dennis as her slighted friend in writer/director Woody Allen's Another Woman Jeremy Irons in two roles as Beverly and Elliot Mantle - identical twin gynecologists in director/co-writer David Cronenberg's creepy and violent Dead Ringers A Cry in the Dark (1988) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A Cry in the Dark ( 1988 ) Evil Angels (original title) A mother whose child was killed in a Dingo attack in the Australian outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.

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Director: Fred Schepisi An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, NY after returning there for the first time in decades. Director: Hector Babenco A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her ... See full summary » Director: Karel Reisz A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment. Director: Mike Nichols A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother. Director: Carl Franklin Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids. Director: Wes Craven After spending time with his new neighbors, an aspiring writer realizes they are harboring deep secrets that will forever change him. Director: Alan J. Pakula Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend. Director: Barbet Schroeder An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel.

The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at... See full summary » Director: Mike Nichols A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress. Director: Robert Benton In an afterlife way station resembling a block of hotels, the lives of the recently-deceased are examined in a court-like setting. Director: Albert Brooks Edit Storyline Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain. During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia, she claimed that she witnessed a dingo stealing her baby daughter, Azaria, from the family tent. Azaria's body was never found. Police noted some apparent inconsistencies in her story, and she was charged with murder. The case attracted a lot of attention, turning an investigation into a media circus, with the public divided in their opinions. Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au> A family torn apart. A public filled with outrage. A woman accused of murder. Genres: 11 November 1988 (USA) See more » Also Known As: A Cry in the Dark See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know?

Trivia Lindy Chamberlain refers to a case in which expert testimony wrongly sent three boys to prison. She's referring to the 1972 murder of 26-year-old Maxwell Confait in southeast London. Confait was strangled, and the building he lived in was burned down. Eighteen-year-old Colin Lattimore, 15-year-old Ronnie Leighton, and 14-year-old Ahmet Salih were arrested and charged with murder and arson. All three had alibis, but three prominent forensic pathologists testified to the time of death. One, Dr. Cameron, changed his mind on the stand and said Confait could have died at a time when the boys were not covered by their alibi. The boys were convicted and sentenced to prison. Two years later, the convictions were overturned. It turned out that Confait had been dead more than 48 hours before the fire, and the forensic pathologists were wrong about the fire speeding up the onset of rigor mortis. In 1980, Douglas Franklin was found to be the true murderer. See more » Goofs In the end credits, the movie's copyright year is 1988.

In Roman numerals, it would be MCMLXXXVIII. Instead, the year is MCMLXXXIII, 1983. See more » Quotes Michael Chamberlain : No, you're right, it's exactly the same model as mine. Les Smith : Have a look at what Webber found under the dash! (Hamilton, Australia) – See all my reviews If there is any Australian that I feel sorrier for, it would have to be Lindy Chamberlain. Her compelling story is one of the more famous court cases in Australian history. Also known as A cry in the dark', Evil Angel' shows how divided the Australian public really were towards this case and how the media can manipulate a story, by favouring just one side of a story that they believe is the whole truth. When I hear the cry The dingo's got my baby', it brings back memories from along time ago. During a camping trip, an infant disappears from her family's tent. When the child's mother spies a dingo nearby, authorities launch a frantic search, but all they find is a torn, bloodied garment.

The press, distressed by the mother's seeming "lack of emotion", and suspicious of her religious beliefs, begin to accuse her of murdering the baby. The sentiment against her begins to grow, and soon the whole continent is talking about the case. Despite the lack of evidence, the woman is imprisoned; although investigators eventually re-examine her story, the damage is done: the innocent mother's relationship with her husband has been irreparably destroyed. This is the documentary style film adaptation of the true story of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain. This film has some truly amazing performance in it. Meryl Streep is a wonderful actress, but in this film she does so much that you just have to like. She really becomes Lindy' and embodies what she actually went through. I remember reading that Streep had to have speaking classes, so she could sound Australian', which she does very well. But it is her persona I like the most. Streep performance as Chamberlain is so flawless, as she shows no emotion when she is going in and out of court, which is what the real Lindy Chamberlain did.

It is understandable that the general public would think that Lindy is guilty of murder, which is again testament to Streep's masterful performance. However in court Lindy is visibly upset, when she has to recall the night a dingo took her baby. The other performance which is most noteworthy is that of Sam Neill. While Neill has gone on to do many big performances in Hollywood blockbusters such as Jurassic Park' and the Aussie favourite The Dish', this is one film I continue to remember him from. I like how we see that Michael is visibly distressed by the whole court case scenario, with him stumbling through the interrogation when he is on the stand. It is also most taxing on the couple's personal life, with Michael the first one to crack. Yet there are some famous Australian cameos from many actors in Evil Angel'. Look at these for names; Maurie Fields, Charles Bud' Tingwell, John Howard, Frankie J. Holden, Mark Little, Mark Mitchell, Glenn Robbins and Kym Gyngell. All of them are well known personalities in Australian TV, and it is of great significance to this story to have such great fame among the cast of this film.

Director/Screenwriter of Evil Angel' Fred Schepisi does justice to this story in many ways. Firstly, Schepisi and co screenwriter Robert Caswell stuck very close to the story written by John Bryson. Then Schepisi directs this film in quite a unique way. He points the story in many ways, showing the Chamberlain's in one shot, then to the media, then to the general public. This amount of change gives the film great variety, which is good. If it was fixated with just the Chamberlains, this movie could have had major problems. I also like the many shots of Australia that this film shows off. Having this tragedy take place in the Northern territory, certainly gave that state and its famous attraction Ayers Rock (Uluru) some sort reputation, as this film does too. Yet there are some excellent shots in Alice Springs, Darwin and in the Chamberlain's home-town (for some time) of Mt. Isa in Queensland. This is good work of cinematographer Ian Baker. So with all those factors taken into consideration, this film looks deep into what it must be like to go through the loss of a baby child, taken by a wild animal.

It also a fascinating insight into what the media can do to turn a story and how merciless people can be towards someone that in all possibility could be innocent'. Although it is 22 years since this horrible event has happened, I realise that Chamberlain's lives were, and probably never will be the same again. Michael and Lindy had to go through the most painful of divorces, and their children had to go grow up with a large amount of innuendo attached to their lives. I am thankful that Lindy Chamberlain was released from prison, after serving three and a half years of a life imprisonment sentence for a crime which she did not commit. CMRS gives Evil Angel': 4 (Very Good Film) 25 of 28 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Simply Streep - Biography - The 1980s Website Welcome to Simply Streep - The Meryl Streep Archives, your online web resource on the Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy award winning actress, celebrated for her performances on the big screen, the theatre and television.

Providing a frequently updated fanbase since 1999, Simply Streep features all essential news and information on Miss Streep's work, with extensive archives of magazine scans and over 150.000 pictures and video clips. Enjoy your stay and check back soon! Biography: The 1980's In 1981, director Karel Reisz gave Meryl the opportunity to star in her first leading role and offered her a part in his historic drama, �The French Lieutenant�s Woman�, based on the novel by John Fowles, the screenplay was written by Harold Pinter, one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century. While critics - and her co-star Jeremy Irons - first wondered why an American actress was hired to play a British character in an adaptation of an acclaimed British novel, Meryl proved that she was the right choice. Twelve weeks before shooting commenced, she hired a vocal coach and spent long periods reading aloud from Jane Austin and George Eliot to speak the british accent of her character Sarah Woodruff perfectly. The victorian drama was shot on location in Lyme Regis.

Telling the story of an educated biologist, Charles Smithson, who�s engaged to be married, but falls in love with the outcast Sarah Woodruff, a stranger in town, since it was once rumored she had an affair with the title-given French Lieutenant. Reisz used a complicated, but masterfully performed turn in his storyline. A second plot, about two fictional actors, again performed by Streep and Irons, and their own little romance on the set of the film. While Irons� performance made no big difference between his Charles and the actor, called Mike, it was a joy to see two totally different appearances by Streep as the victorian Sarah and the modern and attractive actress Anna, and how their on-set romance is interwoven with the heavy cost of the victorian tragedy. Holding her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for �Kramer vs. Kramer� in April 1980. As Sarah Woodruff in �The French Lieutenant�s Woman�. As Sophie in �Sophie�s Choice�. Receiving her second Oscar, this time as Best Actress for �Sophie�, in 1983.

The French Lieutenant�s Woman and especially Streep�s double performance was praised by critics in the USA and the UK alike. The New York Times wrote: �Miss Streep has never looked more beautiful nor has she been more in command of her talent as she switches back and forth between the lightweight movie actress and the tragic Sarah, who enters the scene as a Hardy-like victim of fate and stays on to triumph as a modern woman a century ahead of her time.� When award season began, the British Academy recognized Streep�s performance with their BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe and the Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association followed. Meryl was also again nominated for an Oscar, the first time in the Leading Actress category, the award was eventually given to Katharine Hepburn. Meryl next joined a production she didn�t really believe in called, �Still of the Night� . This movie reunited her with the director of �Kramer vs. Kramer�, Robert Benton. Playing a mysterious murder suspect in the style of Grace Kelly, who begins a love affair with the victim�s psychatrist, performed by Roy Scheider. Although �Still of the Night� was a chilling thriller with some scary moments, the film largely panned by critics.

After all, Meryl was the up and coming new star in Hollywood. With only six films, for which she received three Oscar nominations and one win, as well as an Emmy for her television work, the real prime would only begin. In early 1980, director Alan J. Pakula began working on the wrenching Holocaust story �Sophie�s Choice�, based on a 1979 novel by William Styron. The part of the Polish concentration camp survivor Zawistowska turned to become the most wanted part for actresses. Although Pakula received offers from famous actresses, including Barbra Steisand, who offered him to play the part without any salary, the director kept an eye on an unknown Polish actress Meryl Streep felt this was the role she always wanted to play. Casting problems arose when the Polish actress originally signed for the part had problems with the English language and getting a visa to visit the USA., Streep took her chance and literally threw herself on the floor, begging Pakula to perform Sophie. As the project was stuck at that time, Meryl Streep went on to play in �The French Lieutenant�s Woman�.

After finishing it - and out of the blue - Pakula offered her the part of Sophie. Learning the Polish and the German language perfectly to perform Sophie, Meryl also helped Kevin Kline to gather the role of her lover Nathan, after she saw him on stage in �The Pirates of Penzance� in 1981. The film chronicles the unusual friendship between the aspiring author Stingo who moves to Brooklyn and soon becomes friends with his neighbors. Nathan, a sparkling, if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust, and his girlfriend Sophie, a survivor of the Nazi death camps. As Stingo and Sophie get closer, she reveals the tragic episodes of her life, including her time at the concentration camp. Those scenes, filmed in Yugoslavia, summarize the extraordinary talent that Streep achieves with speaking two foreign languages fluently. Further, she not only lost an amount of weight for the concentration scenes, but shaved her head. Often mentioned in film circles as one of the most horrorfying and moving scenes in filmmaking, is where Streep�s character must make an unthinkable choice between her two children.

�Sophie�s Choice� was released in December 1982 in the USA, but Meryl seemed to have no time to breathe. Only weeks after the film�s release, Meryl won the Best Actress award from the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, her third Golden Globe and, in March 1983, she won her second Oscar for her portrayal of Sophie. Despite the golden guy, Meryl awaited another new member to the Streep family, she was pregnant with her second child Mamie. She was already working on a new film, that would cause more controversy than any member of the film crew could have imagined. Streep took on the role of Karen Silkwood who died in a never solved car accident in 1974. Much speculation surrounded Silkwood�s mysterious death, as she had documents with her that would have proven the lack of safety at the Nuclear plant where she worked. It was later reported that Karen herself was radioactively contaminated. However, these documents were taken out of her car.

Eight years after Karen Silkwood�s story dominated the press and the people�s conversations in the USA, Mike Nichols, the acclaimed director of �The Graduate�, began working on a film about Silkwood. With a screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen, Meryl joined the project to star as pop singer Cher was cast, in her first �serious performance� as their roomate Dolly. Cher admitted she was �frightened of meeting Meryl. I thought it was going to be like having an audience with the Pope. Somebody so big she�s out of this world. I mean, me and Meryl Streep? Never!�. Filming on various locations in Texas, problems rushed in when the first reports on the filmmaking were published. It actually caused so much of a stir before it was released that the Kerr-McGee Corporation, which owns the nuclear plant where Silkwood worked, considered bringing a lawsuit against the producers. Despite some of the problems with the Kerr McGee Corporation, the actors seemed to enjoy the filming. As Cher reveals working with Meryl, �We�d knit, crochet, and joke about men.

Meryl and I talked about our kids so much I thought something was wrong with us, that we didn�t have an existence outside of them. Then I realized we were just two proud mothers.� When the movie officially opened on December 14, 1983, moviegoers had trouble connecting the gum-chewing, chain-smoking character of Karen Silkwood with the Meryl Streep they knew. But it is a testament to her acting ability that Meryl was able to persuade them to identify with this character; a beer-drinking redneck, a somewhat promiscuous divorced woman whose children live with their father. Although Silkwood�s parents were dismayed by the movie, and especially Meryl�s portrayal - Silkwood�s mother wondered why �those women from New York didn�t ever call to ask about Karen� - Streep�s unstudied characterization helped the film transcend its initial image as antinuclear propaganda. In its first month of release it made as much as it cost, twelve million dollars. The film�s hefty box office gross was helped in part by the January 1984 U.S. Surpreme Court decision to reinstate the ten-million-dollar award against the Kerr-McGee Corporation.

Meryl Streep herself received nominations for the Golden Globe, the British Academy Award and the Oscar in 1984, the third year in a row she got mentioned for these awards. While �Silkwood� lost in all five categories at the Oscars, Cher won a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress for her role as Dolly. As Karen Silkwood in �Silkwood�. Reunited with De Niro in �Falling in Love�. As Karen Blixen in �Out of Africa�. Holding her People�s Choice Award in 1986, winning Favorite Motion Picture Actress. After a well deserved break, in which Meryl gave birth to her second child and first daughter, Mary Willa, nicknamed Mamie, in 1983, she reteamed with her �Deer Hunter� co-star Robert De Niro. As audiences were looking forward to see America�s biggest male and female movie star again in a film, many were dissapointed by the result, the solid performed but stateless romance �Falling in Love�. And also her next project, the screen adaptation of David Hare�s �Plenty� was dismissed by audiences.

Filmed in France and England, Streep plays Susan Traherne, a young spy who has been irreparably changed by her wartime experiences as a Resistance fighter. She sets out in the post-war world to make her way to what she wants, no matter who is hurt, or how. Surrounded by an amount of talented actors, including Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, Ian McKellen and Sting, director Fred Schepisi failed to capture the power it had when it was performed on stage. Although critics weren�t satisfied by Streep�s performance, her co-stars Sir John Gieldgud and Tracey Ullman received nominations for the BAFTA Award. After box-office failures with her last two films, Meryl knew she should look again for a new character that had potential. But as with �Sophie�s Choice�, her new favorite project didn�t see her as the first choice. Stating that director Sydney Pollack didn�t think she was sexy enough to play the leading role in �Out Of Africa�, Streep auditioned in �a very low cut blouse and a push-up bra� to draw the director�s attention.

Whether it was Streep�s outfit or her willigness to take risks, Pollack made the perfect choice and offered Streep the role in his film, which should become the most beloved romance of the 80's cinema. �Out of Africa� is the autobiographical story of Karen Blixen who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is comp-licated by a husband of convenience, a true love, troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives and the war. Meryl Streep developed her accent by listening to actual recordings of Isak Dinesen reading her works. The three hour-long epic lovestory and compliment to Africa was hailed by critics and audiences - and was awarded with seven Academy Awards, including Best Film and Best Director, Meryl was beaten in the Best Actress category by Geraldine Page. She received nominations for the Golden Globe and the BAFTA, winning honors from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the David Di Donatello Award in 1986. Also in 1986 another major event in Meryl�s life took place, she gave birth to her third child, Grace Jane.

Her next film reteamed Streep with director Mike Nichols, who offered her the part of Rachel Samstat in �Heartburn�, the adaptation of Nora Ephron�s autobiographical bestseller about her failed wedding with Carl Bernstein, one of the famous reporters of the Washington Post, who investigated the Watergate break-in and first cracked the Watergate scandal in August 1972, which led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974. Meryl joined another legendary actor of the 70's. After first scenes were shot with Mandy Patinkin in the role of Bernstein (who is named Mark Foreman), the actor was replaced by Jack Nicholson. The film itself is well written and performed by Streep, Nicholson - and supporting roles by Jeff Daniels, Catherine O�Hara, Maureen Stapleton and Stockard Channing. The film was neither better or worse than the many comedy /dramas that were released in the mid-80's. Streep and Nicholson continued their on-screen relationship and both joined director Hector Babenco in his hopelessly sad drama �Ironweed�, based on the novel by William Kennedy.

Nicholson plays a schizophrenic drifter in 1938's Albany, New York, who spends Halloween in his home town after returning there for the first time in decades. If moviegoers ever had problems recognizing Streep, it was in �Ironweed�. Hidden under a felt hat and dressed in dirty rags, she plays Nicholson�s companion Helen Archer, who was a successful singer in the past, before she lost her home - and her mind. While �Ironweed� was hard to watch, it grossed 7 million dollars in the USA and recognized its stars, Nicholson and Streep, with nominations for both the Golden Globe and the Oscar. The mid-late 1980s bring a box office flaw to Streep�s career: �Plenty�, �Heartburn� and �Ironweed�, both with Jack Nicholson, and as Lindy Chamberlain in �A Cry in the Dark�, for which she wins Best Actress at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The 80s end with a venture to broad comedy in "She-Devil". What Meryl�s characters all had in common were loveable women, maybe with the exception of the alcoholic Helen in �Ironweed�.

Streep now took on a part to play Lindy Chamberlain, the mosted hated mother in Australia. The woman, who lived a normal life with her husband and her three children witnessed how a dingo stole her baby daughter out of the family�s tent during a vacation trip to the Ayers Rock in Australia in 1981. The Chamberlain�s tragic story covered all magazines in Australia, but Lindy�s cold radiation and tearless acception of her child�s loss made the Australian population distrustful of her. When the police note some apparent inconsistencies in her story, a witch hunt is opened by the media which results in a condemnation by the Australian court in 1982, sending Lindy Chamberlain to prison for life. Meryl Streep visited Lindy in prison, before she began to learn the accent and was transformed completely into Chamberlain. Again, she was at first unrecognizable with a black wig and huge glasses. In the middle of the filmmaking, the project seemed to become more up-to-date as never expected. In 1987, new evidence in the Chamberlain case was found that proved Lindy�s innocence,. Chamberlain was released from jail the same year.

�A Cry in the Dark� is a masterful chronicle of the case that shocked and eventually shamed a whole continent. And once again, it featured a tour-de-force performance by Meryl Streep. She was awarded with the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, the Australian Film Institute�s Best Actress award and nominations again for the Golden Globe and the Oscar. Making films for ten years now, Meryl Streep had achieved many honors, honors which some actors wait an entire lifetime to achieve. She won two Oscars and eight nominations as well as three Golden Globes and five People�s Choice Awards. But it was another number that would dominate her career from now on. Turning 40. Meryl Streep: An Extraordinary Talented Actress Meryl Streep: An Extraordinary Talent Meryl Streep Photo By Artem Creative Commons ShareAlike Licence Meryl Streep, is one of the finest, most talented and intelligent actresses of our time. She seems to inhabit characters rather than merely playing a role. Portraying some of the most difficult and memorable figures ever written for women, Meryl Streep has continuously redefined the definition of great acting.

Meryl Streep Photo By Andreas Tai Creative Commons ShareAlike Licence Her ability to make any role her own has made her a firm favourite with directors and film buffs. From the formidable and flamboyant Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada , to the stern puritan Sister Aloysius Beauvoir in Doubt her talents have never been confined to one particular genre. To date, Meryl Streep has received a staggering 15 Oscar nominations and won twice. Her Early Years Born Mary Louise Streep, in 1949, in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary W. Streep, a commercial artist, and Henry William Streep Jr. a pharmaceutical executive. Streep has two younger brothers Dana and Harry. Meryl Streep Photo By Jack Mitchell Creative Commons ShareAlike Licence Streep attended Bernard’s High School, before going on to study at Vassar College, where she received some tuition from Jean Arthur(an American film star of the 1930s and 40s) before going on to graduate with a BA in Drama in 1971. She subsequently secured an M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) from Yale School of Drama.

John Cazale Meryl Streep met actor John Cazale while working on the set of the theatre production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure in 1976. Reckoned by many to be one of the most gifted actors of his generation, John starred, to critical acclaim, in Dog Day Afternoon and The Godfather Part II . John Cazale And Meryl Streep In The Deer Hunter However, devastating news lay ahead not long into the couple’s relationship when John was diagnosed with cancer of the bone and he was given a bleak prognosis. Her First Film Under the shawdow of the emotional turmoil caused by John’s condition, Meryl made her debut in her first film Julia in 1977 and was praised for her performance. The following year, 1978, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, for her role as Linda in the film The Deer Hunter opposite John, who was now her fiance. Meryl Streep Photo By Alan Light John’s Death Meryl had taken the role in The Deer Hunter to be near John who was in the terminal stages of of cancer at the time.

She was not terribly interested in the part and was quoted as saying “They needed a girl between the two guys and I was it’. That same year she played the role of Inga in the film Holocaust , the film was shot in Germany and Austria. When Streep returned from filming she found her fiancé Cazale’s health had greatly deteriorated and she nursed him until he died on March 12, 1978. Don Gummer The same year Meryl Streep met her future husband Don Gummer . A friend of her brother, Gummer is a sculptor. The couple married on September 15, 1978. In 1979 the couple had their first child, Henry. Her second child Mary was born in 1983 and in 1986 she gave birth to her third child, Grace Jane Gummer. And The Oscar Goes To…Meryl Streep In 1979, Streep played the role of Joanna Kramer , a mother who fights to win custody of her child only to realize he is happiest living with his father played by Dustin Hoffman. Streep won an Academy Award in the category of Best Supporting Actress.

Meryl Streep Photo By jdeeringdavis There followed a host of successful films including, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Still Of The Night . Sophie’s Choice The 1982 film, Sophie’s Choice saw Streep cast in the role of a polish holocaust survivor. Streep is said to have filmed ‘the choice’ in one take refusing to do it again as she found it so emotionally draining. She was nominated and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Silkwood She followed up on this success in 1983 with the portrayal of union activist Karen Silkwood in the eponymous film Silkwood . She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance. Since then Streep has gone on to star in box office hits such as Out of Africa (1985) playing the role of Karen Bixen, a Danish writer opposite Robert Redford. Meryl Streep Receiving An Honory Degree From Harvard Photo By chensiyuan Creative Commons ShareAlike Licence Lindy Chamberlain In 1988 A Cry in the Dark was released in which Streep played Australian woman Lyndy Chambarlain.

Based on a true story, A Cry In The Dark documented a young couple’s experience of a misappropriation of justice. On August 17, 1980, a dingo took Lindy’s daughter, Azaria, while the family were camping at Uluru, Queensland, Australia. At an incompetent hearing, the prosecution citing evidence of blood presented in the Chamberlain’s car, put forth a theory that Lindy had slit the throat of her own daughter. Lindy Chamberlain was found guilty and sentenced to life while Michael, her husband, was convicted of assisting his wife in the murder of Azaria. While in prison Lindy gave birth to her fourth child, Kahlia. After an unsuccessful appeal new evidence was found in February 2, 1986. Azaria’s clothing was found partially buried near Uluru beside a dingo lair. She was released from prison a few days later and it later emerged that the ‘baby blood’ in the family car could have been any substance. There have been several cases of dingos killing children since.

Meryl Streep In The Iron Lady Continuing Excellence In 1995, she starred in the romantic The Bridges of Madison County opposite Clint Eastwood, playing the role of Francesca Johnson. In 2002 she appeared in another successful film, playing the role of Clarissa Vaughan in The Hours which also starred Nicole Kidman as Virgina Woolf In 2004 she was cast as Eleanor Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate that same year she returned to comedy for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events where she played Aunt Josephine. Meryl Streep With The Cast Of Mamma Mia And ABBA Photo By Daniel Åhs Karlsson Recent Films Her more recent films include the enormously popular The Devil Wears Prada, and Mamma Mia! The Movie . Her last film to date is Julie & Julia (film review) in which she plays the part of Julia Child a TV cook and author in the 70s and 80s. Meryl Streep is now in her 60s and no doubt will continue to amaze entertain and touch the lives of millions of people all over the world with her marvellous portrayal of women.

Further Reading Meryl Streep: A Critical Biography is not the usual fluffy celebrity book it is a critical analysis of Streep’s work and her approach to acting. For anyone interested in learning the techniques used by Meryl Streep, this book is a must. Amazon.co.uk For people living in Ireland or the United Kingdom, you can access Meryl Streep: A Critical Biography here. Amazon.ca For those who live in Canada, you can obtain Meryl Streep: A Critical Biography from here. Amazon.de Meryl was never in any movie called Life in the Dark, and the date cited as Lindy Chamberlain being released from prison was several months before she event went on trial. Got your facts wrong and your dates years out. Author BIOGRAPHY: Meryl Streep Lifetime twitter BIOGRAPHY This renowned actress was born Mary Louise Streep to father, Harry Streep Jr., a pharmaceutical executive, and mother, Mary, a commercial artist. Harry loved to play the piano and Mary loved to sing, so Streep and her two younger brothers grew up surrounded by music. She was raised in suburban Bernardsville, New Jersey and as a youth, dreamed of becoming an opera singer, taking up singing lessons at age 12.

She attended Bernardsville High School where she was a cheerleader and homecoming queen, before graduating in 1967. Streep had became interested in acting and went on to major in Drama and English at Vassar College. Following her graduation in 1971, she enrolled at the Yale University School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut, graduating in 1975. She went on to study costume design and playwriting at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. At the age of 22, Streep made her professional stage debut in ‘The Playboy of Seville’ (1971) and her Broadway debut was in ‘Trelawney of the Wells’ (1975). She was involved with the theatre from 1975 to 1981, when her film career really began to flourish. She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' ’27 Wagons Full of Cotton’ (1976). She also received Drama Desk Award nominations for her roles in ‘The Cherry Orchard’ (1976) and ‘Happy End’ (1977).

Her small screen debut was in the made-for-television movie ‘The Deadliest Season’ (1977) and her big screen debut in ‘Julia’ (1977), in which she gave an excellent performance in a small part in a flashback sequence. The following year, on 15 September 1978, she married sculptor Don Gummer. The couple have four children, Henry (b. 1979), Mary (aka Mamie) (b. 1983), Grace (b. 1986) and Louisa (b. 1991). Wasting no time in achieving accolades, Streep was nominated for her first Oscar for her second feature film role in ‘The Deer Hunter’ (1978), one of the most powerful films of all time. She won her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for her role in ‘Holocaust’ (1978). She then won two Academy Awards, the first for Best Supporting Actress for her role in ‘Kramer vs.

Kramer’ (1979), opposite Dustin Hoffman and the second for Best Actress as Sophie Zawistowski in ‘Sophie’s Choice’ (1982). She went on to make highly acclaimed performances in several films throughout the remainder of the 1980s. These include her first starring role in a feature film, ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ (1981) with Jeremy Irons; ‘Silkwood’ (1983) with Kurt Russell and Cher; ‘Out of Africa’ (1985) co-starring Robert Redford; ‘Heartburn’ (1986) and ‘Ironweed’ (1987), both with Jack Nicholson; and as Lindy Chamberlain, with Sam Neill in ‘Evil Angels’ (1988), the fact-based film drama, known in America as ‘A Cry in the Dark’, for which she won the 1989 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award. She won six People’s Choice Awards for Favourite Motion Picture Actress between 1984 and 1990, the year she was named World Favourite.

Some people viewed Streep’s career as having declined slightly in the early 1990s, due to the lack of suitable parts. There was ‘Postcards from the Edge’ (1990), with Shirley MacLaine and Dennis Quaid, and the farcical black comedy ‘Death Becomes Her’ (1992), with Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis. The romantic drama ‘The House of Spirits’ (1993) had an all-star cast including Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Winona Rider, Antonio Banderas and Vanessa Redgrave and was set in pre-World War II South America. Streep was back on top form with ‘The Bridges of Madison County’ (1995), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and ‘Marvin’s Room’ (1996) with Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton and Robert De Niro. Streep returned to television work, as executive producer of ‘…First Do No Harm’ (1997), a fact-based story in which she also starred. On 16 September 1998, she was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

‘Music of the Heart’ (1999) was a role that required her to learn to play the violin, which she did by practicing six hours a day for eight weeks. Returning to the stage in July 2001, for the first time in more than 20 years, she played Arkadina in Anton Chekov’s ‘The Seagull’. It was a New York production that also featured Natalie Portman, Kevin Kline, Chrisopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marcia Gay Harden and John Goodman. Five years later, she played the title role in ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’. She provided the voice of the Blue Mecha in Steven Spielberg’s ‘Artificial Intelligence: AI’ (2001) before playing real-life author Susan Orlean, with Nicholas Cage, in the quirky ‘Adaptation’ (2002). Next was ‘The Hours’ (2002) with Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore, for which Streep received a BAFTA nomination for her leading role performance.

She won her second Emmy Award for outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, as well as a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television, for the television mini series ‘Angels in America’ (2003), in which she played multiple roles opposite Al Pacino, Emma Thompson and Mary-Louise Parker. ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ (2004) found Streep playing a more comical role than her usual intense performances and was a film she really enjoyed making for that reason. ‘Prime’ (2005), a romantic comedy with Uma Thurman and Bryan Greenberg, cast Streep in the role of psychoanalyst Lisa Metzger, whose client falls in love with her son. She played the inimitable magazine editor, Miranda Priestly, in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ (2006), for which she earned SAG and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress.

She was cast as country music singer Yolanda Johnson in Robert Altman’s ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ (2006) and went on to star in a number of movies in 2007, including ‘Dark Matter’, ‘Evening’, ‘Rendition’ and ‘Lions for Lambs’. The latter saw her team up with Tom Cruise and Robert Redford, who directed the feature about US politics and the wars in the Middle East. Streep then took on the role of Donna Sheridan in the film version of the West End musical ‘Mamma Mia!’, which is based on the songs of ABBA. Co-starring Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard and Julie Walters, the movie earned her critical acclaim and led to Golden Globe and Satellite Award nominations. It also became the highest-grossing musical film of all time. Following the success of the musical, Streep went on to attract even more praise for her role as Sister Aloysius Beauvier in Scott Rudin’s ‘Doubt’, which landed her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

She won several other major accolades for the film, which paved the way for even greater critical triumph with her next project. ‘Julie & Julia’ (2009) not only earned her another Academy Award nomination, but helped her collect more than a dozen other gongs, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Next came a voice role in ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ and an appearance in ‘It’s Complicated’, both of which led to more recognition. Streep’s versatility also led to her landing the role of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in ‘The Iron Lady’ (2011). Her latest roles include 'Into The Woods' (2014) and 'Suffragette' (2015). Having worked extensively in theatre, television and film for over three decades, Streep is considered by many as one of the most respected and talented actresses of her generation. She certainly is a perfectionist when it comes to her work, preparing meticulously for a new role and is known for her ability to master different accents. She has a way of immersing herself so completely into her character that shows an intensity and love for acting.

With many projects underway and due for release in the next few years, Streep is showing no signs of slowing down. We are certain to be blessed with many more performances injected with the magic of Streep. Meryl Streep Meryl Streep . . Born on June 22, 1949, actor's actor, Meryl Streep is a two-time Oscar winner, and recipient of ten Academy Award Nominations. Meryl has two movies opening in 1999: "Still Life", "50 Violins" Meryl's Background Background: Meryl Streep was born and raised in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. She studied opera with Beverly Sills' coach. Streep was a graduate of Vassar and also the Yale School of Drama. Film Debut: Streep made her debut on the Silver Screen in a small role in the movie, "Julia". Oscar Winner: Streep won her first Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress, in her role as the wife who abandoned her husband (Dustin Hoffman) and their son in the 1979 film "Kramer vs. Kramer".

In 1983, Streep won a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a Holocaust survivor haunted by her memories in "Sophie's Choice". Star: Meryl got her Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday 16 September 1998. Family: Streep is married to sculptor Don Gummer. They live in Connecticut with their four children, Henry, Mary, Grace, and Louise. Bio 1999 - Berlinale Camera - Berlin International Film Festival 1983 - Oscar - Best Actress - "Sophie's Choice" 1980 - Oscar - Best Supporting Actress - "Kramer vs. Kramer" 1983 - Golden Globe - Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - "Sophie's Choice" 1982 - Golden Globe - Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama - "The French Lieutenant's Woman" 1980 - Golden Globe - Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role - "Kramer vs.

Kramer" 1989 - Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress - "A Cry in the Dark" 1978 - Emmy - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series - "Holocaust" 1982 - NSFC Award - Best Actress - "Sophie's Choice" 1979 - NSFC Award - Best Supporting Actress - "Kramer vs. Kramer", "Manhattan," and "Seduction of Joe Tynan" 1978 - NSFC Award - Best Supporting Actress - "The Deer Hunter" 1985 - LAFCA Award - Best Actress - "Out of Africa" 1982 - LAFCA Award - Best Actress - "Sophie's Choice" 1981 - LAFCA Award - Best Actress - "The French Lieutenant's Woman" 1979 - LAFCA Award - Best Supporting Actress - "Kramer vs.

Kramer", "Manhattan, and "Seduction of Joe Tynan" 1988 - AFI Award - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - "A Cry in the Dark" 1982 - BAFTA Film Award - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - "The French Lieutenant's Woman" 1980 - Woman of the Year - Hasty Pudding Theatricals Nominations 1999 - Oscar - Best Actress - "One True Thing" 1999 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - "One True Thing" 1999 - Golden Satellite Award - Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - "One True Thing" 1999 - People's Choice Award - Favorite Motion Picture Actress 1999 - SAG Award - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - "One True Thing" 1996 - Oscar - Best Actress - "The Bridges of Madison County' 1991 - Oscar - Best Actress - "Postcards from the Edge" 1989 - Oscar - Best Actress - "A Cry in the Dark

" 1988 - Oscar - Best Actress - "Ironweed" 1986 - Oscar - Best Actress - "Out of Africa" 1984 - Oscar - Best Actress - "Silkwood" 1982 - Oscar - Best Actress - "The French Lieutenant's Woman" 1979 - Oscar - Best Supporting Actress - "The Deer Hunter" 1998 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV - "...First Do No Harm" 1997 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - "Marvin's Room" 1996 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - "The Bridges of Madison County" 1995 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - "The River Wild" 1993 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical - "Death Becomes Her" 1991 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical - "Postcards from the Edge"

 1990 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical - "She-Devil" 1989 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - "A Cry in the Dark" 1986 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - "Out of Africa" 1984 - Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actress in a Notion Picture - Drama - "Silkwood" 1979 - Golden Globe - Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role - "The Deer Hunter" 1997 - Emmy - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special - "...First Do No Harm" 1996 - SAG Award - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - "The Bridges of Madison County" 1995 - SAG Award - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - "The River Wild" 1986 - BAFTA Film Award - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - "Out of Africa" Past Films

Question: For her role as Lindy Chamberlain, in which 1988 film, was Meryl Streep nominated for the Oscar for best actress?
Answer: A CRY IN THE DARK