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
David di Donatello for Best Actress David di Donatello for Best Actress The David di Donatello for Best Actress (Italian: "David di Donatello per la migliore attrice protagonista") is a film award, one of the David di Donatello Awards, presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, "Academy of Italian Cinema") to recognize the outstanding performance in a leading role of an actress who has worked within the Italian film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. Nominees and winner are selected via a run-off voting by all the members of the Accademia. The award was first given in 1956. Sophia Loren is the record