Meryl Streep commenting that she played it on "automatic pilot". She performed the role of Katherine in "The Taming of the Shrew" for Shakespeare in the Park, and also played a supporting role in "Manhattan" (1979) for Woody Allen. Streep later said that Allen did not provide her with a complete script, giving her only the six pages of her own scenes, and did not permit her to improvise a word of her dialogue. In the drama "Kramer vs. Kramer", Streep was cast opposite Dustin Hoffman as an unhappily married woman who abandons her husband and child. Streep thought that the script
1979 National Society of Film Critics Awards 1979 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 14th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1980, honored the best filmmaking of 1979. 1. Breaking Away<br> 2. "Kramer vs. Kramer"<br> 3. "Manhattan"<br> 4. "10" 1. Woody Allen – "Manhattan"<br> 1. Robert Benton – "Kramer vs. Kramer"<br> 3. Peter Yates – "Breaking Away"<br> 4. Blake Edwards – "10" 1. Dustin Hoffman – "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Agatha"<br> 2. Peter Sellers – "Being There"<br> 3. Nick Nolte – "North Dallas Forty"<br> 4. Jack Lemmon – "The China Syndrome"<br> 5. Klaus Kinski – "Nosferatu the Vampyre" ("Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht")