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Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1986 · Winner
Academy Award Actress in a Leading Role 1986 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama 1986 · Nominated
Academy Award Actress in a Supporting Role 1986 · Nominated
Academy Award Music (Original Score) 1986 · Nominated
Academy Awards, USA. 1986 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Anne Bancroft. 1986 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Meg Tilly. 1986 Nominee Oscar. Best Music, Original Score.
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Despite generally mixed reviews from critics, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Actress (Bancroft), Best Supporting Actress (Tilly), and Best Original Score. Tilly won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress, while Bancroft was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
Original Score winner for Out of Africa, with presenters Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds. Billy Wilder, Akira Kurosawa and John Huston. Best Directing presenters. Anjelica Huston. Supporting Actress winner for Prizzi's Honor. View More Memorable Moments.
Sep 27, 1985 · Norman Jewison's adaptation of John Pielmeier's stage play. When naive novice nun Agnes is discovered with a dead newborn baby in her convent quarters, court-appointed psychiatrist Dr. Martha Livingston investigates her case.
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- Drama, Mystery
- Norman Jewison
- 1985-09-27
- Best Picture
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- Actor in A Leading Role
- Actress in A Leading Role
- Actor in A Supporting Role
- Actress in A Supporting Role
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- Music
- Film Editing
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Margaret Avery – The Color Purple Anjelica Huston – Prizzi’s Honor Amy Madigan – Twice in a Lifetime Meg Tilly – Agnes of God Oprah Winfrey – The Color Purple
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A Chorus Line – John Bloom Out of Africa – Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke Herring, Sheldon Kahn Prizzi’s Honor – Rudi Fehr, Kaja Fehr Runaway Train – Henry Richardson Witness– Thom Noble
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The story: A dead baby is found in a lonely convent, where the nuns lead a sequestered life and there are no men who possibly could have been the father - unless you count poor old Father Metineau, the nuns' spiritual adviser, who has a drinking problem.
It garnered three Academy Award nominations: Meg Tilly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Anne Bancroft for Lead Actress for her performance as Mother Miriam, and Best Score.