Sophie's Choice
50% overall doesn't tell the real story for Sophie's Choice. This is a film that gets stronger as tournaments advance — a better matchup in a final than its win rate suggests. Anchored by what many consider the single greatest screen performance ever delivered, this is a film whose title entered the language as a synonym for impossible decisions. On a ballot, that cultural gravity is almost impossible to vote against. Voters pick in 1.4s on average — well under the 3.5s platform norm.
Synopsis
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
The opening number doesn't capture it. 37% early, 62% in the semis, 86% in the final — Sophie's Choice builds as the competition gets tougher, a trajectory most films can't sustain.
Sophie's Choice dominates Out of Africa at 100% — one of the most decisive matchups in its record. The Post at 100% is another comfortable win.
Meryl Streep: The G.O.A.T: Sophie's Choice clears The Devil Wears Prada in the opening round and dispatches The Bridges of Madison County at 80% in the final. A convincing start-to-finish run.
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