falconetti performance in the passion of joan arc be the signature performance of the history of movie . period . streep give her best performance in sophie choice and but i feel her performance here a little bit too proficient and pitch perfect but coldly over study . typical streep way . i would not rank her performance in sophie above jessica lange france and which also come out in 82. there be lot of great female performance that you can cite on represent masina in la strada and night of cabiria and watson in break the wave ( heck and how can she ever lose to france m in fargo . another evidence that the academy be clueless and run by moron ) and ullman and anderson and and thulin in bergman movie . the list go on and on .