A Passage to India (film) Best Picture, Best Director for Lean, and Best Actress for Judy Davis for her portrayal as Adela Quested. Peggy Ashcroft won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal as Mrs Moore, making her, at 77, the oldest actress to win the award, and Maurice Jarre won his third Academy Award for Best Original Score. Adela Quested (Judy Davis) is sailing from England to British Raj India with Mrs Moore (Peggy Ashcroft), the latter the mother of her intended bridegroom, Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers); Mrs Moore's son from her first marriage. He is the Collector and the City
Judy Davis dual roles, a mother, Georgia, and her daughter Nina. For her performance, Davis earned another Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actress. In 1990, she had a cameo in Woody Allen's "Alice"; this would be her first appearance in an Allen-directed film. The following year, she was featured in Joel Coen's "Barton Fink", which won the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival and in David Cronenberg's adaptation of the hallucinogenic novel "Naked Lunch". She returned to E. M. Forster territory in "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and won an Independent Spirit Award for her work as mannish woman author