In her first Academy Award-winning role, Streep played Joanna Kramer, a wife and mother who, unsatisfied with her life, decides to leave her marriage and child. Her performance captured her character's confusion and emotional strain and served to cement Streep's growing reputation as a consummate actress. She delivered two other outstanding supporting performances in 1979, as an alluring Southern lawyer in The Seduction of Joe Tynan and as Woody Allen's ex-wife in Manhattan. Streep was ... nominated for Academy Awards in 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1995, 1998, 1999, and 2002; she won her second Oscar for her role in Sophie's Choice (1982).