If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

Lange received three more nominations for Country (1984) Sweet Dreams (1985) and Music Box (1989) before being nominated a sixth time and winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a manic depressive housewife in Blue Sky (1994). Her performance in the film also earned her a Golden Globe along with awards from the National Society of Film Critics the New York Film Critics Circle the Boston Society of Film Critics and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle. Her Broadway debut which was met by mixed reviews also occurred that same year when Jessica Lange portrayed Blanche DuBois in a production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Alec Baldwin.

Lange received three more nominations for Country (1984) Sweet Dreams (1985) and Music Box (1989) before being nominated a sixth time and winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a manic depressive housewife in Blue Sky (1994). In 1982 Jessica Lange became the first performer in forty years to receive two Oscar nominations within the same year; Jessica Lange won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a soap opera star in Tootsie and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the troubled actress Frances Farmer in Frances.