Tom & Viv

UK (1994): Biography/Drama/Romance

Tom is T.S. Eliot (Willem Dafoe), the St. Louis-born poet who tried to turn himself into an Englishman. Viv is his wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood (Miranda Richardson). She's got money, which allows him to give up his job and focus on poetry. She urges him on, promotes him to the Bloomsbury group (which adopts him but looks down its nose at her), and begins to go slightly crazy. Is it Eliot's chilly demeanor (in a terrific repressed performance by Dafoe) that's driving her nuts, or something else? In fact, she suffers from misdiagnosed physical ailments, and a combination of drugs and alcohol send her around the bend. (Marshall Fine, Amazon.com)

· Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role 1994: Miranda Richardson
· Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role 1994: Rosemary Harris

2 nominations