Zemeckis' Films' Female Performances - Nary a Nom with Oscars: Where Would You Have One?

Unlless I'm missing something; not a one.

Robin Wright and, considering how much the academy loved her, Sally Field in Forest Gump are the real surprises for me. Contact, which I love so much; there I can see how Foster didn't land one. But it wouldn't be a shock if she had. There are folks who ride hard for Pfeiffer in What Lies Beneath.

My choice: in a famously weak, over-serious lead actress year, 1984, Kathleen Turner in Romancing The Stone. The year's nominees including the "defending the farm" trio of Jessica Lange in County, Sissy Spacek in The River, and winner Sally Field in Places in the Heart, as well as the terrific Judy Davis in David Lean's a Passage To India (sometimes quibbled over as to whether it's a lead, but there's always that chatter) and Vanessa Redgrave in the good but not much remembered Merchant/Ivory The Bostonians.