discussed in biography

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  In Alan J. Pakula: Films of the 1980s

  However, his next film, Sophie’s Choice (1982), was one of his best as a director. Adapted from William Styron’s award-winning novel, it featured Meryl Streep’s Oscar-winning performance as a Holocaust survivor whose postwar life in Brooklyn has been irrevocably damaged by her concentration-camp

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Oscar to Streep for best actress, 1982

produced by Grade

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  In Lew Grade, Baron Grade of Elstree

  … (1981), The Dark Crystal (1982), Sophie’s Choice (1982), and Mask (1985). The money lost, however, on his 1980 film, Raise the Titanic, caused him to sell his production company in 1982. Grade then became chairman of Embassy Communications International until 1985, when he formed the Grade Co. He was knighted…

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role of Streep

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  In Meryl Streep: Stardom: The Deer Hunter, Sophie’s Choice, and Silkwood

  …fights to regain his custody—and Sophie’s Choice (1982)—as a Polish survivor of a Nazi concentration camp—earned her Academy Awards for supporting actress and leading actress, respectively. She further demonstrated her range and her gifts for rendering complex emotional states and seamless characterization in such roles as a modern-day actress portraying…

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