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Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt from a screenplay written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. The film is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton [4] [5] – which was told in the 1975 book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by reporter Henry P. Leifermann of The New York Times [6] – and stars Sally Field in the title role.
She has received various accolades, including two Academy Award for Best Actress for Norma Rae (1979), and Places in the Heart (1984). She also received three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and nominations for a Tony Award and for two British Academy Film Awards.
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In a year that included some big films — “Apocalypse Now,” “Norma Rae,” and “All That Jazz” — it was the smaller drama with big performances that won out, taking Oscars for Best ...
Sally Field - Norma Rae; Best Supporting Actor: Paul Dooley - Breaking Away; Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep - Manhattan, The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Kramer vs. Kramer; Best Director: John Schlesinger - Yanks; Career Achievement Award: Myrna Loy
Sally Field revealed that when she won an Oscar for best actress in 1980, her then-boyfriend, Burt Reynolds, refused to attend the ceremony with her.. Field, 77, was nominated for her role in ...
If you had polled the opening night audience of The Beautician and the Beast back in 1997, few moviegoers would have predicted that Fran Drescher — let alone President Drescher — would someday ...
Sally Field – Norma Rae as Norma Rae Webster. Jill Clayburgh – La Luna as Caterina Silveri; Lisa Eichhorn – Yanks as Jean Moreton; Jane Fonda – The China Syndrome as Kimberly Wells; Marsha Mason – Promises in the Dark as Dr. Alexandra Kendall; Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Actor Actress; Peter Sellers ...