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Line 68: [[File:James Ivory (1991.09).jpg|thumb|right|160px|Smith acted in [[James Ivory]]'s ''[[A Room with a View (1985 film)|A Room with a View]]'' (1986).]] Smith portrayed Charlotte Bartlett in the [[Merchant Ivory Productions|Merchant Ivory Production]] of ''[[A Room with a View (1985 film)|A Room with a View]]'' (1985). The film received universal acclaim earning 8 [[Academy Award]] nominations, including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]. The film starred [[Helena Bonham Carter]], [[Julian Sands]], [[Daniel Day-Lewis]], [[Dame Judi Dench]], [[Simon Callow]] and [[Denholm Elliott]]. Smith earned her fifth Academy Award nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] and won her second [[Golden Globe Award]] and her third [[British Academy Film Award]] for Best Actress. Smith won her fourth [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|BAFTA Film Awards for Best Actress]] for the title role in the 1987 film ''[[The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne]]'', directed by [[Jack Clayton]].<ref name="BAFTA322"/> [[Pauline Kael]] wrote: "Clayton is a felicitous choice to direct a character study film about a woman's rage against the Church for her wasted life. His first feature was ''[[Room at the Top (1959 film)|Room at the Top]]'' with [[Simone Signoret]] and he made ''[[The Innocents (1961 film)|The Innocents]]'' with Deborah Kerr and ''[[The Pumpkin Eater]]'' with [[Anne Bancroft]] – he knows how to show women's temperatures and their mind-body inter-actions. Maggie Smith becomes the essence of spinster – she makes you feel the ghastliness of knowing you're a figure of fun."<ref name= Kael>Kael, Pauline. ''Hooked'', pp. 410–411.</ref> In the early 1990s, Smith appeared in various box-office comedies. In 1991, Smith appeared as Granny Wendy in [[Steven Spielberg]]'s 1991 hit movie ''[[Hook (film)|Hook]]'', a fantasy adventure film based on the [[Peter Pan]] character. The film starred [[Robin Williams]] as Pan, [[Dustin Hoffman]] as Hook and [[Julia Roberts]] as [[Tinker Bell]]. The film was a financial success making $300 million at the box office.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0102057/|title= Hook – Box Office Mojo|website= Boxofficemojo|access-date= 3 June 2024}}</ref> In 1992, Smith starred as Mother Superior in the [[Whoopi Goldberg]] comedy film ''[[Sister Act]]'' and its sequel, ''[[Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit]]'' (1993).<ref>{{Cite web |title=''Sister Act'' cast: Where are they now?|first=Jami |last=Ganz |url=https://ew.com/movies/sister-act-where-are-they-now/|date=2 February 2023 |access-date=21 January 2024 |website=EW.com |language=en}}</ref> Smith also received a third [[British Academy Television Award]] nomination for her role as Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew in the 1992 TV film ''[[Memento Mori]]'',<ref name="BAFTA322"/> and her first [[Primetime Emmy Award]] nomination for her role as Violet Venable in the 1993 [[PBS]] television film ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer]]''. In 1993, she portrayed [[Lady Bracknell]] in [[Oscar Wilde]]'s comic play ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' at the [[Aldwych Theatre]] in the [[West End theatre|West End]], receiving her fourth [[Olivier Award]] nomination. The following year she starred in [[Edward Albee]]'s ''[[Three Tall Women]]'' for which she garnered critical acclaim. Theatre critic Paul Taylor for ''[[The Independent]]'' wrote, "Maggie Smith has to be seen to be believed. The sudden subsidings into wretched senile tears; the frustrated, dismissive flappings of her arm as her mind gropes impotently for a mislaid fact; the comic cunning with which she tries to cover over her patches of blankness; the beadily aggressive suspicion and the moments of alert cackling triumph – Smith's performance which, at the moment, is firmly on the right side of caricature, captures all this and more."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/review-theatre-three-tall-women-wyndham-s-theatre-london-1575556.html|title= REVIEW:Theatre Three Tall Women Wyndham's Theatre, London|website= [[The Independent]]|first=Paul |last=Taylor |date=1 October 1995|access-date= 19 June 2021}}</ref> She received her record fifth [[Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress|''Evening Standard'' Theatre Award for Best Actress]] for her performance.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/28/arts/albee-s-tall-women-wins-award-in-london.html|title= Albee's 'Tall Women' Wins Award in London|work= The New York Times|date= 28 November 1994|access-date= 3 June 2024}}</ref> | |||