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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
Burt Reynolds and Sally Field. Bettmann/Getty Images Sally Field revealed that when she won an Oscar for best actress in 1980, her then-boyfriend, Burt Reynolds, refused to attend the ceremony ...
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 ...
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 ...
When a print newspaper photographer caught Mr. Sheffield trying to pull his reluctant nanny across the picket line, the duo became the faces of the movement overnight, with her representing the ...
Sally Field – Norma Rae; Runners-up: Marsha Mason – Chapter Two and Bette Midler – The Rose; Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas – Being There and The Seduction of Joe Tynan; Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep – Kramer vs. Kramer, Manhattan and The Seduction of Joe Tynan; Best Screenplay: Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer; Best ...