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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.
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
Field, 77, was nominated for her role in Norma Rae, which also earned her a Golden Globe Award. In the new book, 50 Oscar Nights, to be published Tuesday, January 23, Field claimed that Reynolds ...
Crystal Lee Sutton (née Pulley; December 31, 1940 – September 11, 2009) was an American union organizer and advocate who gained fame in 1979 when the film Norma Rae was released, based on events related to her being fired from her job at the J.P. Stevens plant in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on May 30, 1973, for "insubordination" after she copied an anti-union letter posted on the ...
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 ...
The 52nd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1979 and took place on April 14, 1980, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.