Great double Oscar movies, great actresses..Dianne Wiest
15.Cops & Robbersons
Chevy Chase, Jack Palance
Released: 1994
Directed by: Michael Ritchie
14.Passengers
Anne Hathaway, David Morse
Released: 2008
Directed by: Rodrigo García
13.Dan in Real Life
Emily Blunt, Steve Carell
Released: 2007
Directed by: Peter Hedges
12.The Lost Boys
Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman
Released: 1987
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
The Lost Boys is a 1987 American teen horror film starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Alex Winter, Jamison..11.
Little Man Tate
Jodie Foster, Harry Connick
Released: 1991
Directed by: Jodie Foster
10.The Horse Whisperer
Scarlett Johansson, Kate Bosworth
Released: 1998
Directed by: Robert Redford
9.Robots
Halle Berry, Robin Williams
Released: 2005
Directed by: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
8.I Am Sam
Sean Penn, Dakota Fanning
Released: 2001
Directed by: Jessie Nelson
7.Radio Days
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
Released: 1987
Directed by: Woody Allen
6.Practical Magic
Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock
Released: 1998
Directed by: Griffin Dunne[AdSense-A]
5.The Purple Rose of Cairo
Viggo Mortensen, Mia Farrow
Released: 1985
Directed by: Woody Allen
4.Independence Day
Dianne Wiest, Kathleen Quinlan
Released: 1983
Directed by: Robert Mandel
3.Bullets over Broadway
Jennifer Tilly, Mary-Louise Parker
Released: 1994
Directed by: Woody Allen
2.Hannah and Her Sisters
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Woody Allen
Released: 1986
Directed by: Woody Allen
1.Edward Scissorhands
Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder
Released: 1990
Directed by: Tim Burton
Dianne Evelyn WiesT (born March 28, 1948)is an American actress. She has twice won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for the Woody Allen films Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Bullets over Broadway (1994), and appeared in three other films by Allen: The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Radio Days (1987), and September (1987). Wiest’s other film appearances include Footloose (1984), The Lost Boys (1987), Bright Lights, Big City (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Little Man Tate (1991), The Birdcage (1996), Practical Magic (1998), Dan in Real Life (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Rabbit Hole (2010), Sisters (2015), Let Them All Talk (2020) and I Care a Lot (2021).[AdSense-A]
Wiest received an Academy Award nomination for Parenthood (1989), and won a Golden Globe Award for Bullets over Broadway. She won the 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Road to Avonlea, and the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for In Treatment (2008–09). Her other television credits include Law & Order (2000–02), and the CBS comedy series Life in Pieces (2015–2019).
Her early screen roles include small roles in It’s My Turn and I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can, both starring Jill Clayburgh in the lead roles. In 1984, she starred in Footloose, as the reverend’s wife and Ariel’s mother.
Under Woody Allen’s direction, Wiest won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Hannah and Her Sisters in 1987 and Bullets over Broadway in 1995.She also appeared in three other Woody Allen films: The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Radio Days (1987) and September (1987)[AdSense-A]
She followed her first Oscar success with performances in The Lost Boys (1987) and Bright Lights, Big City (1988). She also starred with Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards, Keanu Reeves and Martha Plimpton in Ron Howard’s Parenthood, for which she received her second Oscar nomination. Other major film roles include Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990), Jodie Foster’s Little Man Tate (1991) and The Birdcage (1996), Mike Nichols’ remake of La Cage aux Folles.[AdSense-A]
On television, her performance on the series Road to Avonlea in 1989 brought her her first Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Dramatic Series. She received another nomination for her performance in the 1999 telefilm The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, co-starring Sidney Poitier. She starred in the television mini-series The 10th Kingdom in 2000. From 2000 to 2002, Wiest portrayed interim District Attorney Nora Lewin in the long-running NBC crime drama Law & Order. She also played the character in two episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and the pilot episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Wiest starred alongside Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche in Dan in Real Life (2007) and had a key supporting role in Charlie Kaufman’s 2008 film Synecdoche, New York.[AdSense-A]
In 2008, she appeared as Gabriel Byrne’s therapist, Gina Toll, on the HBO television series In Treatment, for which she received her second Emmy Award, for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She received another nomination (in the same category) for the second season, in 2009, but did not win.[AdSense-A]
She starred alongside Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole (2010), which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival. Wiest also co-starred in Lawrence Kasdan’s 2012 comedy Darling Companion, alongside Kevin Kline and Diane Keaton. In 2020, Wiest starred in Steven Soderbergh’s drama Let Them All Talk alongside Meryl Streep, and Candice Bergen. That same year she also starred opposite Rosamund Pike in the action thriller I Care a Lot.[AdSense-A]
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