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Actor: Ellen BurstynFilm: "Requiem for a Dream" Nomination: Best Actress Age: 68 Previous Oscar Noms: Best Actress, "Resurrection"(1978) Best Actress, "Same Time, Next Year"(1996) Best Actress, "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"(1974) -- WINNER Best Actress, "The Exorcist"(1973) Best Supporting Actress, "The Last Picture Show"(1971) Previous Wins for Role: Boston Society of Film Critics Golden Satellite Awards Las Vegas Film Critics Online Film Critics Southeastern Film Critics Previous Noms for Role: Chicago Film Critics Golden Globes Independent Spirit Awards Screen Actors Guild Awards Toronto Film Critics Character Bio:In "Requiem for a Dream," Ellen Burstyn plays Sara Goldfarb, a widow who spends her days locked up in her apartment with her addiction - eating chocolates and watching her favorite self-help TV show. Her son Harry, a heroin addict, keeps steeling her TV to pawn it for drugs. Sara is convinced that she is going to get on her favorite show, so she begins dieting to fit into her favorite red dress. Her friend introduces her to a somewhat less than ethical doctor who prescribes diet pills. As the film progresses we see Sara become addicted to the diet pills. She becomes a shell of her former self and begins imagining her refrigerator is trying to eat her.
Read the Florida Times-Union review of "Requiem for a Dream"
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