1985 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Winner
![Places in the Heart Sally Field](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/places-in-the-heart-image.jpg)
Places in the Heart
Sally Field
In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people.
1985 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Nominees
![A Passage to India Judy Davis](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-passage-to-india-image.jpg)
A Passage to India
Judy Davis
![Country Jessica Lange](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/country-image.jpg)
Country
Jessica Lange
![The Bostonians Vanessa Redgrave](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-bostonians-image.jpg)
The Bostonians
Vanessa Redgrave
![The River Sissy Spacek](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-river-image.jpg)