Last week Sissy Spacek said she was expecting "a real gullywasher" of a rainstorm.

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Press, who looks like a young Sissy Spacek, and Blunt, with her impervious liquid stare, are terrific.

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With Sissy Spacek as the patient in a psychiatric institution who Tells Us What It All Means.

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Similarly, Sissy Spacek faces little real competition as best actress.

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He also appeared in several movies, the best remembered of which is "Coal Miner's Daughter, " which won Sissy Spacek an Oscar for her portrayal of country star Loretta Lynn.

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Picks for best actress in a drama motion picture went to Kidman, Halle Berry ("Monster's Ball"), Judi Dench ("Iris"), Sissy Spacek ("In the Bedroom") and Tilda Swinton ("The Deep End").

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Sissy Spacek plays a proper Southern matron with an independent streak, and Whoopi Goldberg is the housemaid who inspires her to become a car-pool driver during the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56.

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"I'm a huge Sissy Spacek fan, " she says.

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With Kevin Costner as New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, Sissy Spacek as his wife, Gary Oldman as Oswald, and an all-star cast of witnesses and conspirators: Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci (an abominable performance), Donald Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Jack Lemmon, Ed Asner, John Candy, Walter Matthau.

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