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 Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress (1985 and 1989), Dianne Wiest (1986 and 1994), Patricia Clarkson (2002 and 2003) and Amy Adams (2005 and 2012) each won the award two times. Winning the award at age 13 for "Taxi Driver" (1976), Jodie Foster is the youngest winner in this category. In 2009, Mo'Nique became the first African-American to win in this category for her performance in "Precious". National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the annual awards given by the National Society of Film Critics. This awards was given