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
Candango for Best Actress movie has been divided by two actresses. In 1993, came the only triple win. Lucélia Santos, Maria Zilda Bethlem and Norma Bengell divided the Candango for Best Actress for "Vagas para Moças de Fino Trato". In 2008 came the only non-nominal victory, the jury awarded the prize to the "female cast of the film "Siri-Ará". Despite being a festival where only Brazilian films can participate, five foreign actresses have won the award, acting in national films. This happened in 1967 with the Italian Rossana Ghessa, protagonist of "Bebel, Garota Propaganda", in 1971 with the Argentine Adriana Prieto, lauded by "O