Sophie's Choice (film) 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition). Academy Awards BAFTA Awards Golden Globe Awards Writers Guild of America Streep also made a clean sweep in the Best Actress categories at all major critics groups: National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics and Boston Society of Film Critics Sophie's Choice (film) Sophie's Choice is a 1982 American drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, who adapted William Styron's novel of the same name. Meryl Streep stars as Sophie, a Polish immigrant who shares a boarding house in Brooklyn with her tempestuous
César Award for Best Actress the only actress to have won both awards, but for two different performances. Two actresses have won both the Best Actress César and the Best Actress Award of the Cannes Film Festival for the same performance: Isabelle Adjani for "Possession" and Elodie Bouchez for "The Dreamlife of Angels". In addition, Simone Signoret, Jeanne Moreau, Isabelle Huppert and Juliette Binoche have won both awards as well, but not for the same role. Following the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma (AATC)'s practice, the films below are listed by year of ceremony, which corresponds to the year following the film's year