Sophie's Choice (film) Sophie, its beautiful, complex, worldly heroine, gives Meryl Streep the chance at bravura performance and she is, in a word, incandescent." Pauline Kael of "The New Yorker" wrote that it "is, I think, an infuriatingly bad movie ... The whole plot is based on a connection that isn't there—the connection between Sophie and Nathan's relationship and what the Nazis did to the Jews. Eventually, we get to the Mystery—to Sophie's Choice—and discover that the incident is garish rather than illuminating, and too particular to demonstrate anything general." The film won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Streep), and was nominated
National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress a cash prize of 50,000 (US$780). Including ties and repeat winners, the DFF has presented a total of 33 Best Supporting Actress awards to 34 different actresses. Although Indian cinema produces films in more than 20 languages, the performances of films that have won awards are of ten languages: Bengali, English, Hindi, Meitei, Marathi, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, Haryanvi and Urdu. The first recipient was Rohini Hattangadi, who was honoured at the 32nd National Film Awards for her performance in the Hindi film "Party" (1984). , two actresses— Surekha Sikri and K. P. A. C. Lalitha— have been honoured twice. Sikri