Oscar bait success of summer blockbusters like "Jaws" and "Star Wars" (both of which had also been nominated for Best Picture), independent filmmakers refined Carr's methods of exploiting the Oscars. Merchant Ivory, who produced lavish costume dramas, often based on novels by Henry James or E. M. Forster, began to time their releases to align with the awards season. Their 1985 adaptation of Forster's "A Room with a View" won three of the eight Oscars it was nominated for. By 1991 the modern film-release calendar, in which studios released the movies they had the highest Oscar hopes for in autumn and December,
Bette Henritze 1972 she played a role in "Rage". In 1982 she appeared in the Oscar nominated film, "The World According to Garp", and in 1986 "Brighton Beach Memoirs" as Mrs. Murphy. In 1991 she played Emma in "Other People's Money" and in 1998 as Mrs. Skinner in "The Object of My Affection". In 1999, she played Dolores Engler in "Judy Berlin". In 2002, Henritze appeared in the Oscar nominated film "Far from Heaven" as Mrs. Leacock, and in 2009 she appeared as Annie in "Taking Woodstock". Henritze made her television debut on the series "The Edge of Night" and next appeared