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Actor: Melinda Dillon

Melinda Dillon was nominated twice, for Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Absence of Malice, the first playing a mother whose child is taken and whose distress is the film’s emotional anchor. A Christmas Story gave her the mother, and she originated a role in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Broadway.

A Christmas Story (1983) film poster

A Christmas Story (1983)

Peter Billingsley plays Ralphie. The film operates as memory instead of plot.