Silkwood

…Alice Arlen, the screenplay for Silkwood (1983), based on the true story of Karen Silkwood (portrayed in the movie by Meryl Streep), a union activist who died while investigating safety violations at a nuclear fuel production plant. Silkwood won Ephron her first Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay. She…

It was Silkwood (1983), however, that marked Nichols’s return to form. Meryl Streep starred as Karen Silkwood, a real-life lab worker at a nuclear plant in Oklahoma who died (1974) under mysterious circumstances while trying to expose safety violations at the facility. Streep, Cher (in a supporting…

A movie of Silkwood’s story, Silkwood (1983), was directed by Mike Nichols. It featured Meryl Streep as the protagonist and Cher as her roommate.

…for her supporting role in Silkwood (1983). In 1988 she won an Academy Award for her starring role as an Italian American widow in the romantic comedy Moonstruck (1987). Her other films include Mask (1985), Suspect (1987), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Mermaids (1990), and Tea with Mussolini (1999).

… in Mike Nichols’s acclaimed drama Silkwood (1983). In 1984 he appeared in the romantic comedy Swing Shift, which also featured Goldie Hawn. Although the film was a disappointment, Russell and Hawn became one of Hollywood’s most enduring couples. He then starred in a series of crime dramas, including The Mean…

…Woman (1981), a factory-worker-turned-activist in Silkwood (1983), and the aristocratic Danish author Isak Dinesen in Out of Africa (1985). She won the Cannes film festival and New York Film Critics’ Circle awards for best actress for her moving performance in A Cry in the Dark (1988) as Lindy Chamberlain, the…