Sissy Spacek won an Academy Award for Best Actress for the Thomas Rickman film Coal Miner's Daughter.
Thomas Rickman (sometimes credited as Tom Rickman) is an American film director and screenwriter known for such films as "Coal Miner's Daughter", "Hooper", "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "Truman". 
 It stars Sissy Spacek as Loretta, a role that earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. 
