Editing Emma Thompson (section)

===''Sense and Sensibility'' and established actress (1994–1999)===
In 1994, Thompson made her Hollywood debut playing a goofy doctor alongside [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] and [[Danny DeVito]] in ''[[Junior (1994 film)|Junior]]''. Although the male pregnancy storyline was poorly received by most critics and flopped at the box office,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1058426-junior |title=Junior |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=21 January 2014 |archive-date=28 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140128091728/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1058426-junior/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Mick LaSalle]] of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' praised the lead trio.<ref>{{cite news |last1=La Salle |first1=Mick |title=FILM REVIEW – Schwarzenegger Gets Sensitive in 'Junior' |url=http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-REVIEW-Schwarzenegger-Gets-Sensitive-in-3030769.php |access-date=28 November 2015 |work=The San Francisco Chronicle |date=9 June 1995 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208112257/http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-REVIEW-Schwarzenegger-Gets-Sensitive-in-3030769.php |url-status=live }}</ref> She returned to [[independent film|independent cinema]] for a lead role in ''[[Carrington (film)|Carrington]]'', which studied the platonic relationship between artist [[Dora Carrington]] and writer [[Lytton Strachey]] (played by [[Jonathan Pryce]]). Roger Ebert remarked that Thompson had "developed a specialty in unrequited love",<ref>{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |title=Carrington |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/carrington-1995 |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |access-date=19 January 2014 |date=17 November 1995 |archive-date=3 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203113231/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/carrington-1995 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the ''TV Guide Film & Video Companion'' commented that her "neurasthenic mannerisms, which usually drive us batty, are appropriate here".<ref name="Books2004">{{cite book |title=TV Guide Film & Video Companion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gNEdYxQM_hkC |year=2004 |publisher=Barnes & Noble Books |isbn=978-0-7607-6104-5 |page=146}}</ref>

[[File:Bridleway by Efford House, 1996-geograph-3391607.jpg|thumb|Efford House in Holbeton which stood in for Barton Cottage in ''[[Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' (1995)]]

Thompson's Academy success continued with ''[[Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' (1995), generally considered to be the most popular and authentic of the numerous film adaptations of [[Jane Austen]]'s novels made in the 1990s.<ref name="Galperin2003">{{cite book |last=Galperin |first=William H. |title=The Historical Austen |url=https://archive.org/details/historicalausten0000galp |url-access=registration |year=2003 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=0-8122-3687-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historicalausten0000galp/page/109 109]}}</ref><ref name="Flavin2004">{{cite book |last=Flavin |first=Louise |title=Jane Austen in the Classroom: Viewing the Novel/reading the Film |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WokjuZOeXSwC&pg=PA42 |date=1 January 2004 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-0-8204-6811-2 |page=42 |access-date=27 February 2016 |archive-date=3 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703072042/http://books.google.com/books?id=WokjuZOeXSwC&pg=PA42 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Jones2005">{{cite book |last=Jones |first=Wendy S. |title=Consensual Fictions: Women, Liberalism, and the English Novel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O-EVGVxHrgkC&pg=PA101 |year=2005 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-0-8020-8717-1 |page=101 |access-date=27 February 2016 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801111456/https://books.google.com/books?id=O-EVGVxHrgkC&pg=PA101 |url-status=live }}</ref> Thompson—a lifelong lover of Austen's work—was hired to write the film based on the period sketches in her series ''Thompson''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1995/12/17/jane-austen-does-lunch.html |first=Jack |last=Kroll |title=Jane Austen does lunch |newspaper=The Daily Beast |date=17 December 1995 |access-date=30 January 2014 |archive-date=16 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816105111/http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1995/12/17/jane-austen-does-lunch.html |url-status=live }}</ref> She spent five years developing the screenplay,<ref>{{cite book |first=Emma |last=Thompson |title=Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay and Diaries |chapter=The Diaries |publisher=Bloomsbury |editor1-first=Lindsay |editor1-last=Doran |editor2-first=Emma |editor2-last=Thompson |year=1995 |isbn=1-55704-782-0 |page=208}}</ref> and took the role of the spinster sister [[Elinor Dashwood]] despite, aged 35, being 16 years older than the literary character.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/62625 |title=Sense and Sensibility |work=Turner Classic Movies |first=Frank |last=Miller |access-date=30 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701174531/http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/62625%7C0/Sense-and-Sensibility.html |archive-date=1 July 2013 |url-status=live |df=dmy}}</ref> Directed by [[Ang Lee]] and co-starring [[Kate Winslet]], ''Sense and Sensibility'' received widespread critical acclaim and ranks among the highest-grossing films of Thompson's career.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sense and Sensibility |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1068832-sense_and_sensibility/ |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=30 January 2014 |archive-date=20 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220054313/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1068832-sense_and_sensibility/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="highest">{{cite web |title=Emma Thompson |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=emmathompson.htm&sort=gross&order=DESC&p=.htm |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=30 January 2014 |archive-date=1 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201194507/http://boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=emmathompson.htm&sort=gross&order=DESC&p=.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Shelly Frome remarked that she displayed a "great affinity for Jane Austen's style and wit",<ref name="Frome2009">{{cite book |last=Frome |first=Shelly |title=The Art and Craft of Screenwriting: Fundamentals, Methods and Advice from Insiders |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=587lUbco-WoC&pg=PA105 |date=27 January 2009 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8267-2 |page=105 |access-date=27 February 2016 |archive-date=3 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703065254/http://books.google.com/books?id=587lUbco-WoC&pg=PA105 |url-status=live }}</ref> and Graham Fuller of ''[[Sight and Sound]]'' saw her as the film's [[auteur]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Shih |first=Shu-mei |title=Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HoZX3XSgm-0C&pg=PA58 |date=19 June 2007 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-94015-4 |access-date=27 February 2016 |archive-date=3 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703070713/http://books.google.com/books?id=HoZX3XSgm-0C&pg=PA58 |url-status=live }}</ref> Thompson received a third nomination for Best Actress and won the award for [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]], making her the only person in history to win an Oscar for both acting and screenwriting.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/emma-thompson-how-jane-austen-saved-me-from-going-under-1929510.html |title=Emma Thompson: How Jane Austen saved me from going under |newspaper=The Independent |first=Andrew |last=Johnson |date=28 March 2010 |access-date=18 August 2011 |archive-date=26 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126120637/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/emma-thompson-how-jane-austen-saved-me-from-going-under-1929510.html |url-status=live }}</ref> She also earned a second [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress]] and a [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay]].<ref name="nyt"/>

Thompson was absent from screens in 1996, but returned the following year with [[Alan Rickman]]'s directorial debut, ''[[The Winter Guest]]''. Set over one day in a Scottish seaside village, the drama allowed Thompson and her mother ([[Phyllida Law]]) to play mother and daughter on screen.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Winter Guest |work=Chicago Sun-Times |first=Roger |last=Ebert |date=16 January 1998 |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-winter-guest-1998 |access-date=1 February 2014 |archive-date=4 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204025245/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-winter-guest-1998 |url-status=live }}</ref> She then returned to America to appear in an episode of ''[[Ellen (TV series)|Ellen]]'', and her self-parodying performance received a [[Primetime Emmy Award]] for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series|Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series]].<ref name="yahoo"/><ref name="emmy">{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/emma-thompson |title=Emma Thompson – Emmy Awards, Nominations and Wins |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424194836/https://www.emmys.com/bios/emma-thompson |archive-date=24 April 2020 |website=[[Emmy Awards]] |access-date=31 January 2014}}</ref>

For her second Hollywood role, Thompson starred with [[John Travolta]] in [[Mike Nichols]]'s ''[[Primary Colors (film)|Primary Colors]]'' (1998), playing a couple based on [[Bill Clinton|Bill]] and [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Primary Colors |work=Chicago Sun-Times |first=Roger |last=Ebert |date=20 March 1998 |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980320/REVIEWS/803200304 |access-date=31 January 2014 |archive-date=11 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011182124/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19980320%2FREVIEWS%2F803200304 |url-status=live }}</ref> Thompson's character, Susan, is described as that of an "ambitious, long-suffering wife" who has to deal with her husband's infidelity.<ref>{{cite web |first=Alex |last=Tunzelmann von |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/may/29/primary-colors-bill-clinton-film-accuracy |title=Primary Colors: fiction takes second place to fact |work=The Guardian |date=29 May 2013 |access-date=27 March 2014 |archive-date=27 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327234440/http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/may/29/primary-colors-bill-clinton-film-accuracy |url-status=live }}</ref> The film was critically well received but lost money at the box office.<ref>{{cite web |title=Primary Colors |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/primary_colors/ |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=31 January 2014 |archive-date=4 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204052719/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/primary_colors/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="boxofficemojo.com">{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=primarycolors.htm |title=Primary Colors |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=31 January 2014 |archive-date=31 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131162036/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=primarycolors.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> According to [[Kevin O'Sullivan (journalist)|Kevin O'Sullivan]] of the ''[[Daily Mirror]]'', Americans were "blown away" by her performance and accent, and top Hollywood producers became increasingly interested in casting her.<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Sullivan |first=Kevin |url= |title=Film: First Lady Steps Down for A Year; Emma Thompson Is in Demand Following Her 'Hillary Clinton' Role in Primary Colors, but She's Taking a Year off Instead |newspaper=Daily Mirror |date=30 October 1998 |access-date= }}</ref> Thompson rejected many of the offers, expressing concerns about living in Los Angeles behind walls with bodyguards, and stated "LA is lovely as long as you know you can leave". She also admitted to feeling tired and jaded with the industry at this point, which influenced her decision to leave film for a year.<ref>{{cite news |first=Julie L. |last=Belcove |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-72510059.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611091212/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-72510059.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 June 2014 |title=TRUE WIT (interview with actress Emma Thompson) |newspaper=WWD |date=16 March 2001 |access-date=27 March 2014}}</ref> Thompson followed ''Primary Colors'' by playing an [[FBI]] agent opposite Rickman in the poorly received thriller ''[[Judas Kiss (1998 film)|Judas Kiss]]'' (1998).<ref>{{cite web |title=Judas Kiss |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/judas_kiss/reviews/ |website=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=1 February 2014 |archive-date=19 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219192959/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/judas_kiss/reviews/ |url-status=live }}</ref>