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
César Award for Best Supporting Actress Actress: Nathalie Baye is the only actress with multiple wins in both categories. Three films have received both accolades: "One Deadly Summer" in 1984 (Best Actress to Isabelle Adjani, Best Supporting Actress to Suzanne Flon), "Indochine" in 1993 (Best Actress to Catherine Deneuve, Best Supporting Actress to Dominique Blanc) and "Queen Margot" in 1995 (Best Actress to Isabelle Adjani, Best Supporting Actress to Virna Lisi). Three women have won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress after previously winning the César Award for Most Promising Actress: Both Cécile de France and Julie Depardieu have won their two awards with a