Best Actress Collection [5 Discs]Best Actress Collection [5 Discs]

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DVD FEATURES:
  • Region: 1
  • Number of Discs: 5
  • Screen: Color
  • Audio: Dolby Surround
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
AWARDS
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  •     Won Best Actress - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  •     Won Best Actress - 1999 (Hilary Swank)
  •     Won Best Actress - 1979 (Sally Field)
  •     Won Best Song - 1979 (Norman Gimbel, David Shire)
  •     Won Best Actress - 1957 (Joanne Woodward)
  •     Won Best Actress - 1956 (Ingrid Bergman)
  •     Nominated Best Actor - 2005 (Joaquin Phoenix)
  •     Nominated Best Costume Design - 2005 (Arianne Phillips)
  •     Nominated Best Editing - 2005 (Michael McCusker)
  •     Nominated Best Sound Mixing - 2005 (Doug Hemphill, Paul Massey, Peter Kurland)
  •     Nominated Best Supporting Actress - 1999 (Chloë Sevigny)
  •     Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay - 1979 (Harriet Frank, Jr., Irving Ravetch)
  •     Nominated Best Picture - 1979 (Tamara Asseyev, Alex Rose)
  •     Nominated Best Drama or Comedy Score - 1956 (Alfred Newman)
  • Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
  •     Nominated Outstanding Nonfiction Series - 2008
  •     Nominated Outstanding Nonfiction Series - 2007
  •     Nominated Best Nonfiction Series - 2006
  •     Nominated Best Nonfiction Series - 2005
  • American Cinema Editors Guild
  •     Nominated Best Edited Feature - Comedy or Musical - 2005 (Michael McCusker)
  • Art Directors Guild
  •     Nominated Best Art Direction in a Contemporary Film - 2005 (David James Bomba)
  • Boston Society of Film Critics
  •     Won Best Actress - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  • British Academy of Film and Television Arts
  •     Won Best Actress - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  •     Won Best Sound - 2005 (Doug Hemphill, Paul Massey, Donald Sylvester, Peter Kurland)
  •     Nominated Best Actor - 2005 (Joaquin Phoenix)
  •     Nominated Best Film Music - 2005 (T-Bone Burnett)
  •     Nominated Best Actress - 2000 (Hilary Swank)
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Actress - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  •     Won Best Actress - 1999 (Hilary Swank)
  •     Nominated Best Actor - 2005 (Joaquin Phoenix)
  •     Nominated Best Picture - 2005
  •     Nominated Best Soundtrack - 2005
  • Cannes Film Festival
  •     Won Best Actress - 1979 (Sally Field)
  •     Won Grand Technical Prize - 1979
  • Chicago Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Actress - 1999 (Hilary Swank)
  •     Won Best Supporting Actress - 1999 (Chloë Sevigny)
  •     Nominated Best Actor - 2005 (Joaquin Phoenix)
  •     Nominated Best Actress - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
  •     Won Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comed - 2005 (Joaquin Phoenix)
  •     Won Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Com - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  •     Won Best Picture - Musical or Comedy - 2005
  •     Won Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - 1999 (Hilary Swank)
  •     Won Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - 1979 (Sally Field)
  •     Won Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - 1957 (Joanne Woodward)
  •     Won Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - 1956 (Ingrid Bergman)
  •     Nominated Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture M - 1999 (Chloë Sevigny)
  •     Nominated Best Picture - Drama - 1979
  •     Nominated Best Screenplay - 1979 (Harriet Frank, Jr., Irving Ravetch)
  •     Nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama - 1956 (Helen Hayes)
  • Independent Spirit Awards
  •     Won Best Actress - 1999 (Hilary Swank)
  •     Won Best Supporting Actress - 1999 (Chloë Sevigny)
  •     Nominated Best First Feature Over $500,000 - 1999 (Kimberly Peirce)
  •     Nominated Best First Screenplay - 1999 (Andy Bienen, Kimberly Peirce)
  •     Nominated Producers Award - 1999 (Eva Kolodner)
  • Kansas City Film Critics Association
  •     Nominated Best Actress - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  • Las Vegas Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Actress - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Actress - 1999 (Hilary Swank)
  •     Won Best Supporting Actress - 1999 (Chloë Sevigny)
  •     Won Best Actress - 1979 (Sally Field)
  • National Board of Review
  •     Won Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress - 1999 (Hilary Swank)
  •     Won Best Directorial Debut - 1999 (Kimberly Peirce)
  •     Won Best Actress - 1979 (Sally Field)
  •     Won Best Actress - 1957 (Joanne Woodward)
  •     Won Best Actor - 1956 (Yul Brynner)
  •     Nominated Best Picture - 2005
  •     Nominated Best Picture - 1999
  •     Nominated Best Picture - 1956
  • National Society of Film Critics
  •     Won Best Actress - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  •     Won Best Actress - Runner-up - 1999 (Hilary Swank)
  •     Won Best Supporting Actress - 1999 (Chloë Sevigny)
  • New York Film Critics Circle
  •     Won Best Actress - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  •     Won Best Actress - 1999 (Hilary Swank)
  •     Won Best Actress - 1979 (Sally Field)
  •     Won Best Actress - 1956 (Ingrid Bergman)
  • Online Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Actress - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  •     Nominated Best Actor - 2005 (Joaquin Phoenix)
  • Phoenix Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Use of Previously Published or Recorded Music - 2005
  •     Won Top Ten Film of the Year - 2005
  • Producers Guild of America
  •     Nominated Producer of the Year - 2005 (Cathy Konrad, James Keach)
  • San Francisco Film Critics Circle
  •     Won Best Actress - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  • Screen Actors Guild
  •     Won Best Actress - 2005 (Reese Witherspoon)
  •     Nominated Best Actor - 2005 (Joaquin Phoenix)
  •     Nominated Best Female Actor in a Leading Role - 1999 (Hilary Swank)
  •     Nominated Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role - 1999 (Chloë Sevigny)
  • Telluride Film Festival
  •     Film Presented - 2005
  • Toronto Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Actress - 1999 (Hilary Swank)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
REVIEWS:
  • Before her Oscar-winning, breakthrough role as a union organizer in Norma Rae, Sally Field was famous for being television's The Flying Nun and for her subsequent lightweight comic work, particularly with Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit. Casting Field in the lead role of a poor, uneducated worker who organizes a Southern mill proved to be a stroke of genius. She wasn't known for portraying assertive, powerful characters, and so her transformation in the film from mousy and helpless to an icon of resistance symbolized for many audiences similar psychic and social journeys. Norma Rae became an authentic portrait of empowerment because its heroine (and the actress portraying her) seemed so ordinary to begin with. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
  • The classic treatment of the popular story of Princess Anastasia is this 1956 Hollywood version by Soviet-born director Anatole Litvak, based on a play by Marcelle Maurette. The lustrous Ingrid Bergman won her second Academy Award for her finely modulated portrayal of an amnesia victim who is manipulated by an exiled Russian White general (Yul Brynner) into posing as the long-lost daughter of the late Czar Nicholas. Anastasia marked Bergman's Hollywood comeback from her own exile in Europe following an overplayed personal scandal with Italian director Roberto Rossellini. The skeptical Russian Grand Duchess is played by the reliable Helen Hayes. Highly theatrical in its structure, this Anastasia is slick and entertaining, if not particularly attentive to historical nuances. Litvak uses his own experiences of fleeing both Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union to fashion a thoughtful, sophisticated study about the intertwining of political and personal deception. After Bergman's exquisite portrayal, the character of Anastasia was fated to decline, through it was later attempted by Amy Irving in 1986 and in a Don Bluth animated version in 1997. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
  • The surprising success of The Three Faces of Eve unleashed numerous films and stories to come about multiple personalities. In 1957, delving into mental illness was a more controversial proposition, and The Three Faces of Eve broke disturbing new ground for Hollywood. Joanne Woodward, who would later play the psychiatrist treating Sybil in that 1976 classic about a woman with multiple personalities, won an Oscar as a woman with three personalities: a mousy housewife, a party girl, and a sophisticated matron. The film also represented a growing cultural trend of examining the psychological toll on women of the constricting gender roles of the 1950s. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
  • Walk the Line is first and foremost a love story. Director James Mangold touches on most of the standard scenes people have come to expect from movies about real-life musicians, but the material is infused with energy by two outstanding lead performances. Joaquin Phoenix passes the test that buries most performers who play famous musicians; one never doubts that he is playing a person capable of creating these fantastic songs. That he handles his own singing in the film is simply a bonus. Even if he does not sound exactly like Cash, he is close enough that -- when augmented by the film's outstanding editing and the emotional thrust of the story -- the illusion is complete. As good as he is, Reese Witherspoon matches him perfectly, registering every contradictory feeling in a smart woman forced to play the fool in public. The scenes in which they duet, particularly a scorching version of "It Ain't Me Babe," display an emotional connection between the two that can rival any movie love story. That connection carries over when the couple is off-stage, particularly in a wonderful early scene in a diner where one begins to sense the spark the two feel between each other. Walk the Line is an outstanding love story, a highly entertaining look at the life of a young rock star on tour, and a showcase for two strong young actors to give great performances. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
  • With what was possibly the most acclaimed independent debut film since Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, first-time director Kimberly Peirce paints an unforgettable portrait of small-town doldrums and gender identity crisis, using the harrowing tale of Teena Brandon, a young Nebraska girl who successfully passed herself off as a male, resulting in a violent attack on her life. Expertly realized by Peirce, the film is straightforward, uncompromised filmmaking, and smartly removes any traces of martyrdom or cheap sentiment in exploring its fascinating lead case study. More than any film about gender identity preceding it, Boys doesn't resort to needless exposition in order to translate the story to the uninitiated. This factor is best actualized by the film's sterling cast, including Hilary Swank in a mesmerizing, dexterous performance as Brandon; Chloe Sevigny, heartbreaking and faultless as Brandon's love interest; and Peter Sarsgaard, hypnotically and believably menacing as one of Brandon's eventual assailants. In a robust Best Actress victory, lead actress Swank managed to beat perennial favorite Annette Bening to the Oscar podium in 1999, proving that being a relatively new talent to motion pictures was by no means a deterrent to the recognition of her significant achievement. (Many noted that not since Simone Signoret's win for 1959's Room at the Top had an actress in an independently-produced film received the statuette.) The events of Boys are also covered in a documentary film about the same subject, The Brandon Teena Story, which recounts some material in a different light. ~ Jason Clark, Rovi

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