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Sophie’s Choice

film by Pakula [1982]

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  • Pakula, Alan J.
    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

    role of Streep

    • Three-time Oscar winner
      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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