Sally Field won the Best Actress Oscar in 1979 for playing a factory worker who helps unionize her fellow workers in “Norma Rae.” She no doubt surprised Academy members in her handling of this heavy drama role after years of light comedy in television sitcoms. Fields and the cast were well directed by Martin Ritt (“The Long, Hot Summer” 1958) from an excellent screenplay by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch.
The film won a second Academy Award for Best Original Song: “It Goes Like it Goes” by David Shire and Norman Gimbel. Co-stars include Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Gail Strickland, Barbara Baxley, Morgan Paull, John Calvin, Noble Willingham, Robert Broyles, and Grace Zabriskie, a familiar face to television viewers as Sarah Palmer in “Twin Peaks” (1990-1991). “Norma Rae” was quite a success at the box office for 20th Century Fox.
Norma Rae (1979)
cinema
My Review
Sally Field won the Best Actress Oscar in 1979 for playing a factory worker who helps unionize her fellow workers in “Norma Rae.” She no doubt surprised Academy members in her handling of this heavy drama role after years of light comedy in television sitcoms. Fields and the cast were well directed by Martin Ritt (“The Long, Hot Summer” 1958) from an excellent screenplay by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch.
The film won a second Academy Award for Best Original Song: “It Goes Like it Goes” by David Shire and Norman Gimbel. Co-stars include Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Gail Strickland, Barbara Baxley, Morgan Paull, John Calvin, Noble Willingham, Robert Broyles, and Grace Zabriskie, a familiar face to television viewers as Sarah Palmer in “Twin Peaks” (1990-1991). “Norma Rae” was quite a success at the box office for 20th Century Fox.