Sophie's Choice Guide

: The narrative's central trauma is revealed through long flashbacks to Sophie's arrival at Auschwitz. A sadistic SS doctor forced her to choose which of her two children would be gassed immediately and which would be spared for labor.

: Directed and written by Alan J. Pakula , who adapted the 1979 novel by William Styron . Sophie's Choice

: Beyond Streep's win, the film received four other Oscar nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Music by Marvin Hamlisch. : The narrative's central trauma is revealed through

: Set in post-WWII Brooklyn (1947), a young Southern writer named Stingo moves into a boarding house where he befriends Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor, and her volatile, brilliant lover Nathan Landau. including Best Adapted Screenplay