A World Apart

Award: Best Actress - Tie
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): Linda Mvusi
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1988

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this "haunting, deeply moving film" (Los Angeles Times) brims with "emotion and radiant intelligence" (The New Yorker) and features Barbara Hershey in a "strikingly forceful performance" (New York) by Barbara Hershey, this potent account of personal and political turmoil brims with "emotion and radiant intelligence" (The New Yorker)!
South Africa, 1963. Communist Gus Roth (Jeroen Krabbe) is forced to flee Johannesburg to escape arrest, leaving his activist wife Diana (Hershey) to continue their crusade against apartheid. But when Diana is wrenched from her three daughters and jailed under the notorious 90-day Detention Act, she and her family face the ultimate sacrifice in the fight for freedom.

A Private Function

Award: Best Actress
Award Year: 1985
Recipient(s): Maggie Smith
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1985

Synopsis: The story takes place in post World War II England with wartime food rationing still in place. A couple of days before the coronation of Elizabeth II, and a group of businessmen want to impress their local government by giving a big party. Unfortunately, the contraband pig raised for the event is stolen.

Alice

Award: Best Actress
Award Year: 1990
Recipient(s): Mia Farrow
Theatrical Release Date: Dec 25, 1990

Synopsis: A mousy, pampered woman who married well tries to find herself and contemplates the unthinkable - an extramarital affair.

Annie Hall

Award: Best Actress
Award Year: 1977
Recipient(s): Diane Keaton
Theatrical Release Date: Apr 20, 1977

Synopsis: This Best Picture Oscar winner stars Woody Allen as a neurotic, New York comedian who falls for a quirky midwestern girl (Diane Keaton) in an on-again, off-again romance.

Babette's Feast

Award: Best Actress
Award Year: 1988
Recipient(s): Stephane Audran
Theatrical Release Date: Mar 04, 1988

Synopsis: In 1871 France, a women flees a commune and seels refuge in an austere village in Denmark. She earns her keep by cooking for the local nuns. The daily fare consists of bland and usual foods. After the French girl wins a Paris lottery, she decides to spice up the lives of the locals by cooking them a culinary feast.

Black Narcissus

Award: Best Actress
Award Year: 1947
Recipient(s): Deborah Kerr
Theatrical Release Date: Jun 03, 1948

Synopsis: Deborah Kerr stars in this visually stunning classic film about five nuns who bear physical and psychological hardships as they struggle to build a mission in a remote abandoned palace, high in the Himalayas. Based on a novel by Rumer Godden.

Blue Sky

Award: Best Actress
Award Year: 1994
Recipient(s): Jessica Lange
Theatrical Release Date: Sep 16, 1994

Synopsis: In 1962 a nuclear engineer, his provocative wife and their two daughters are transferred to a military base where they become entangled in a cover-up involving nuclear bomb testing.

Blue Velvet

Award: Best Actress
Award Year: 1986
Recipient(s): Isabella Rossellini
Theatrical Release Date: Sep 19, 1986

Synopsis: A sensual mystery thriller about strange happenings in a small North Carolina town. A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more, prehaps too much more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown's picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger. It is also an unforgettably fascinating and forboding world.

Brief Encounter

Award: Best Actress
Award Year: 1946
Recipient(s): Celia Johnson
Theatrical Release Date: Jan 01, 1945

Synopsis: A chance meeting quickly blossoms into a deep - but doomed - love affaire in this "engrossing and beautifully told story" (Hollywood Citizen-News) from Oscar winning director David Lean and writer Noel Coward.

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

Award: Best Actress
Award Year: 1969
Recipient(s): Gina Lollobrigida
Theatrical Release Date: Dec 20, 1968

Synopsis: Gina Lollabrigida is making a small fortune off support checks from three fliers she loved during WWII (Phil Silvers, Telly Savalas and Peter Lawford), each of whom thinks he's the father of her daughter!

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