Susan Sarandon "Thelma & Louise" (1991), "Lorenzo's Oil" (1992), and "The Client" (1994), finally winning in 1995 for "Dead Man Walking". She was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award in 1994. Additionally, she has received eight Golden Globe nominations, including for "White Palace" (1990), "Stepmom" (1998), "Igby Goes Down" (2002), and "Bernard and Doris" (2007). Her other movies include "Little Women" (1994), "Anywhere but Here" (1999), "Cradle Will Rock" (1999), "The Banger Sisters" (2002), "Shall We Dance" (2004), "Alfie" (2004), "Romance & Cigarettes" (2005), "Elizabethtown" (2005), and "Enchanted" (2007). Sarandon has appeared in two episodes of "The Simpsons", once as herself
Helen Prejean correspond with convicted murderer Elmo Patrick Sonnier, held on Death Row in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. Sonnier had been sentenced to death by electrocution. She visited Sonnier in prison and agreed to be his spiritual adviser in the months leading up to his execution. The experience gave Prejean greater insight into the process involved in executions, for the convict, families, and others in the prison, and she began speaking out against capital punishment. At the same time, she founded "Survive", an organization devoted to counseling the families of victims of violence. Prejean has since ministered to other