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 with Kristen Stewart's English-language performance. Nevertheless, Virna Lisi's and Carmen Maura's roles included some parts of Italian-language and Spanish-language, respectively. International actresses who have received nomination are: Virna Lisi is the only actress to have won both the Best Supporting Actress César and the Best Actress Award of the Cannes Film Festival for her portrayal of Catherine de Médicis in "Queen Margot". Following the AATC's practice, the films below are listed by year of ceremony, which corresponds to the year following the film's year of release. For example, the César for Best Supporting Actress of 2010 was awarded on February