What is a 1988 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Kevin Wade, that stars an American actress which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe?
Melanie Griffith Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. Griffith began her career as an adolescent in nonspeaking film roles before making her credited debut opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's "Night Moves" (1975). She rose to prominence for her role in Brian De Palma's "Body Double" (1984), which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith's subsequent performance in "Something Wild" (1986) garnered critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988's "Working Girl", which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe.
Linda Hunt Lydia Susanna Hunter (born April 2, 1945), better known by her stage name Linda Hunt, is an American film, stage, and television actress. After making her film debut playing Mrs. Oxheart in "Popeye" (1980), Hunt's breakthrough came playing the male character Billy Kwan in "The Year of Living Dangerously" (1982), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first person to win an Oscar portraying a character of the opposite sex.