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73 • SAG-AFTR A SPECIAL ISSUE 2023 • sagaftra.org everyone really did like her. Field spoke about that legendary moment with the American Academy of Achievement in 2005. "I wasn't terribly eloquent about it, but then, I'm not really terribly eloquent," she laughed. "All of this was really happening to me after I'd come from what I'd come from? I think I said exactly what I meant and I owned it." The '90s would see Field continuing to appear in hits and fan favorites, including 1989's beloved ensemble piece Steel Magnolias and another raucous ensemble in Soapdish. The dramatic Not Without My Daughter and the lighthearted and loving turns in Mrs. Doubtfire and Forrest Gump (she did not mind playing Tom Hanks' mother, though only 10 years his senior) rounded out the decade, with Field occasionally returning to television for guest spots. In the 2000s, Field garnered good reviews in a recurring role on ER, for which she won a Primetime Emmy, and later won another Emmy, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award, for her role in the critically acclaimed family drama Brothers & Sisters, which she also executive produced. The silver screen beckoned once again and, in 2012, Field briefly joined the Marvel Universe as Peter Parker's Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel, and that same year she received her third Oscar nomination and seventh SAG Award nomination, this time for the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's epic historical drama Lincoln. Field followed up this heralded performance with a smaller and more personal film, director Michael Showalter's indie hit, Hello, My Name Is Doris. So many years of experience under her belt has made Field smarter and wiser, but she must still constantly reinvent herself. And, younger performers would do well to heed her advice. "It's hard to give sage wisdom about anything," she told SAG-AFTRA, "but I do know that if you're not in this particular business FOCUS FE ATURES From top left, Forrest Gump (1994) with Tom Hanks; Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015); Spoiler Alert (2022) with Jim Parsons; 80 for Brady (2023) with Rita Moreno, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin PAR AMOUNT/PHOTOFEST ROADSIDE AT TR AC TIONS/PHOTOFEST PAR AMOUNT PIC TURES