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Each year Florida Film Festival brings celebrity guests to share a film of their choice. This year Sissy Spacek was in attendance at tonight's screening of Badlands. After the film the audience enjoyed a Q&A where Sissy shared stories from Badlands as well as many of her other films and experiences. Mrs. Spacek was very entertaining and looked great! This wasn't too much of a surprise as she has played younger for several of her films. In Coal Miner's Daughter she played a 14 year old Loretta Lynn when she was 27 years old!
The Florida Film Festival is in it's final few days and offers screenings through Sunday 4/17. Check out their schedule and catch a film or many before it's a wrap for 2016!
From Florida Film Festival's press release:
Each year Florida Film Festival brings celebrity guests to share a film of their choice. This year Sissy Spacek was in attendance at tonight's screening of Badlands. After the film the audience enjoyed a Q&A where Sissy shared stories from Badlands as well as many of her other films and experiences. Mrs. Spacek was very entertaining and looked great! This wasn't too much of a surprise as she has played younger for several of her films. In Coal Miner's Daughter she played a 14 year old Loretta Lynn when she was 27 years old!
The Florida Film Festival is in it's final few days and offers screenings through Sunday 4/17. Check out their schedule and catch a film or many before it's a wrap for 2016!
From Florida Film Festival's press release:
Sissy Spacek has been one of the industry’s most respected actresses in a career spanning four decades. Her many honors include an Academy Award®,a Screen Actors Guild Award, five additional Oscar® nominations, a Grammy nomination, three Golden Globe Awards, and numerous critics awards.
She first gained the attention of critics and audiences with her performance in Terrence Malick’s widely praised 1973 drama Badlands. In 1976, Spacek earned her first Academy Award nomination and won a National Society of Film Critics Award for her chilling performance in the title role of Brian De Palma’s Carrie, based on the Stephen King novel. The following year, she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for her work in Robert Altman’s Three Women.
In 1980, Spacek starred as Loretta Lynn in the acclaimed biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter, winning the Oscar and Golden Globe Award for her performance. Spacek also swept the New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics, National Board of Review, and National Society of Film Critics Awards for her portrayal of the country music legend.
Spacek received another Golden Globe nomination the next year for her work in Raggedy Man, directed by her husband Jack Fisk. She earned her third Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for her role in Costa-Gavras’s 1982 drama Missing, opposite Jack Lemmon, and her fourth Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for her work in 1984’s The River, in which she starred with Mel Gibson.
In 1987, Spacek gained her fifth Academy Award nomination and won another Golden Globe and the New York film Critics Circle Award for her performance in the dark comedy Crimes of the Heart. Her most recent Oscar nomination came for her portrayal of a mother grieving for her murdered son in the drama In the Bedroom, for which she also won a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and an AFI Film Award for Best Actress. In addition, she garnered Best Actress Awards from a number of critics’ organizations, including the Los Angeles, New York, and Broadcast Film Critics. Her work in In the Bedroom also brought Spacek two Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award nominations, one for Outstanding Lead Actress and another for Outstanding Cast, shared with the rest of the film’s ensemble.
Some of Spacek’s other film credits include A Home at the End of the World; The Straight Story; Affliction; JFK; The Long Walk Home; Hot Rod; Night, Mother; Four Christmases; Get Low; and The Help. She can currently be seen in Netflix's Bloodline.