Susan Orlean in Adaptation (2002)īe warned: This is a trippy movie! Nicolas Cage, 57, stars as the real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, 62 (and his fictional twin brother Donald), who is experiencing writer's block as he tries to adapt a (real) book about orchid poacher John Laroche (Chris Cooper, 69, who won an Oscar for the role) by (real) New Yorker writer Susan Orlean (Streep). The Most Meryl Moment: When Mike returns from Vietnam, Linda is the only one left at his welcome home party, and her warm and exuberant “Oh, Michael!” conveys so much about their shared history and affection.Īwards Attention: Academy Awards (nomination), BAFTAs (nomination), Golden Globes (nomination), plus wins from the American Movie Awards and the National Society of Film Critics AwardsĭON'T MISS THIS: 13 Female Directors You Should Discover Right NowĬolumbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection 7. It's easy to see why best friends Mike (Robert De Niro, 77) and Nick (Christopher Walken, 78) were both smitten with her. In this brutal, three-hour Vietnam War epic, Linda stands out as the emotional core, and Streep mines real emotions from the stock “girl back home” character. She called Linda “essentially a man's view of a woman,” marked by passivity and vulnerability, but she took the part to spend more time with her boyfriend, actor John Cazale, who was dying of lung cancer. The role that would earn Streep her first Oscar nod didn't immediately catch the future legend's eye - in fact, just the opposite. Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images 8.
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