Judy Davis (1982). In 1984, she was cast as Adela Quested in David Lean's final film "A Passage to India", an adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. The film became a critics' favourite, opening to tremendous praise worldwide and "Variety" praised Davis for having "the rare gift of being able to look very plain (as the role calls for) at one moment and uncommonly beautiful at another. Likewise, "The Washington Post" wrote, "With makeup the color of smudged ivory, her pallor enhanced by the off-white linens she wears, Davis is
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