Editing Jessica Lange (section)

===1990–2008: Established actress ===
[[File:Jessica Lange on the red carpet at the 62nd Annual Academy Awards cropped.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Lange at the [[62nd Academy Awards]] in 1990]]
Lange continued making films throughout the 1990s, periodically taking time off to raise her children and do theater- and television-based projects. She began the decade in [[Paul Brickman]]'s warmly received ''[[Men Don't Leave]]'' (1990), for which she earned positive reviews and came in third place for the [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Carr |first=Jay |date=January 7, 1991 |title='GoodFellas' is national critics' choice |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-goodfellas-is-nationa/171317556/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |work=Boston Globe |page=38 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> She was then approached by [[Martin Scorsese]] and [[Robert De Niro]], who had both auditioned her for the role of [[Jake LaMotta]]'s wife in ''[[Raging Bull]]'' (1980), to star in a remake of ''[[Cape Fear (1991 film)|Cape Fear]]'' (1991). The film was the year's 12th- highest-grossing film. In 1992, Lange once again starred opposite De Niro in [[Irwin Winkler]]'s ''[[Night and the City (1992 film)|Night and the City]]'', and in a television adaptation of [[Willa Cather]]'s ''[[O Pioneers!]]'', receiving her seventh Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Lange made her [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] debut, which met mixed reviews portraying [[Blanche DuBois]] in a production of [[Tennessee Williams]]'s ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' opposite [[Alec Baldwin]]. Critics rebuked her performance, with the [[Boston Globe]] stating "Jessica Lange is learning a new craft—theatre—at Blanche’s expense, and ours."<ref>{{harvnb|Uzarowski|2023|p=136}}: "...reviews [for the production] were mixed. Most critics were less than kind to Jessica…the Boston Globe summed up the response."</ref>

In 1994, Lange was lauded for her performance as a [[manic depressive]] army wife in the 1960s in [[Tony Richardson]]'s final film, ''[[Blue Sky (1994 film)|Blue Sky]]''.<ref>{{harvnb|Uzarowski|2023|p=143}}: Lange's performance in Blue Sky "received some of the most glowing reviews of her career…"</ref> In 1995, she won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for this performance, along with the [[Golden Globe Award]] for Best Actress, the [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress]], the Utah Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, and the [[Sant Jordi Award]] for Best Actress. She also came in second place for the [[National Board of Review Award for Best Actress]], the [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress]], and the [[Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress]]. She became the second actress, after Streep, to follow a Best Supporting Actress Oscar with a Best Actress Oscar, an achievement not repeated until nearly 20 years later by [[Cate Blanchett]]. Despite its critical praise, and despite Lange's Oscar-winning performance ''Blue Sky'' was not a box office success.<ref>{{harvnb|Uzarowski|2023|p=143}}: "...never became a box office hit…" And p. 145: Grossed $3 million, compared to that year's [[Forrest Gump]] (1994), at $300 million.</ref>

In 1995, Lange gave critically lauded performances in ''[[Losing Isaiah]]'', opposite [[Halle Berry]], and ''[[Rob Roy (1995 film)|Rob Roy]]'', with [[Liam Neeson]]. The same year, she reprised her role as Blanche DuBois in a CBS television adaptation of ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', opposite Alec Baldwin, [[Diane Lane]], and John Goodman. She received glowing reviews for her performance, which earned her fourth Golden Globe Award and her first [[Primetime Emmy Award]] nomination for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie]].

In 1996, Lange made her London stage debut in another performance as Blanche DuBois, which received rave reviews. The next year, she starred opposite [[Michelle Pfeiffer]] in a film adaptation of [[Jane Smiley]]'s [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning novel ''[[A Thousand Acres (film)|A Thousand Acres]]''. Lange received her ninth Golden Globe Award nomination and won the [[Venice Film Festival]]'s Schermi d'Amore award for her performance in the film. In 1998, she starred opposite [[Elisabeth Shue]] in a film adaptation of [[Honoré de Balzac|Balzac]]'s ''[[Cousin Bette (1998 film)|Cousin Bette]]'', for which she received strong reviews. The same year, Lange starred opposite [[Gwyneth Paltrow]] in ''[[Hush (1998 film)|Hush]]'', which generally received negative reviews, though [[Roger Ebert]] praised Lange's performance, writing, "The film's most intriguing element is the performance by Jessica Lange, who by not going over the top provides Martha with a little pathos to leaven the psychopathology."<ref name="EbertonHush">{{cite news|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980306/REVIEWS/803060302/1023|title="Hush" film review|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|access-date=October 17, 2011|date=March 6, 1998|archive-date=June 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061646/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19980306%2FREVIEWS%2F803060302%2F1023|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Lange received strong reviews for her performance in ''[[Titus (film)|Titus]]'', [[Julie Taymor]]'s 1999 adaptation of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Titus Andronicus]]'', co-starring [[Anthony Hopkins]] and [[Alan Cumming]]. ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' critic [[Lisa Schwarzbaum]] included Lange in a "for your consideration" article directed at the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]], writing, "Jessica Lange already has two Oscars and six nominations to her credit, so her appearance near the words 'Academy Awards' should never be a surprise. But everything about her daring performance in ''Titus'' as Tamora, the Queen of the Goths, is an astonishment. Donning breastplates, vowing vengeance, tearing into Shakespeare for the first time as if nothing could be more fun, Lange steals the show{{snd}}and when the star of the show is Anthony Hopkins, that's grand theft."<ref name="TitusSpecialReview">{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2000/01/14/oscars-2000-best-supporting-actress/|title=Oscars 2000: Best Supporting Actress |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] | date= January 14, 2000 | access-date=October 21, 2019}}</ref>

[[File:Taormina film festival 2009, jessica lange 02.JPG|thumb|upright|180px|Lange (2009)]]
Lange began the new millennium with a London stage production of [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'', playing the part of the [[morphine]]-addicted family matriarch Mary Tyrone, for which she became the first American actress to receive an [[Olivier Award]] nomination.<ref>{{cite news |title=Oscar-winner Jessica Lange will return to Broadway |work=BBC News |date=May 27, 2015 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32897043 |access-date=August 2, 2021 |archive-date=August 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802153106/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32897043 |url-status=live }}</ref> She appeared mostly in supporting roles thereafter, most notably opposite [[Christina Ricci]] in [[Prozac Nation (film)|the 2001 adaptation]] of [[Elizabeth Wurtzel]]'s best-selling memoir on [[Major depressive disorder|depression]], ''[[Prozac Nation]]''. In 2003, Lange starred opposite [[Tom Wilkinson]] in HBO's ''[[Normal (2003 film)|Normal]]'', a film about a man who reveals to his wife his decision to have a sex change, for which she received nominations for the Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. She followed this with performances in the [[Bob Dylan]] vehicle ''[[Masked and Anonymous]]'' (2003), [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Big Fish]]'' (2003), [[Jim Jarmusch]]'s ''[[Broken Flowers]]'' (2005) and [[Wim Wenders]]'s ''[[Don't Come Knocking]]'' (2005), before starring in a Broadway revival of [[Tennessee Williams]]'s ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' for which she received mixed reviews.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} She later starred with [[Tammy Blanchard]] in a remake of ''[[Sybil (2007 film)|Sybil]]'' in 2007.