Sissy Spacek uses her freckled pallor and whitish eyelashes to suggest a squashed, groggy girl who could go in any direction; at times, she seems unborn – a fetus. I don't see how this performance could be any better; she's touching, like Elizabeth Hartman in one of her victim roles, but she's also unearthly – a changeling." She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in the film. After "Carrie", Spacek played the small role of housekeeper Linda Murray in Alan Rudolph's ensemble piece "Welcome to LA" (1976) and cemented her reputation in independent cinema with her performance as Pinky Rose in Robert Altman's classic "3 Women" (1977). A review in "The New York Times" wrote "In this film Miss Spacek adds a new dimension of eeriness to the waif she played so effectively in "Carrie"." Altman was deeply impressed by her performance: "She's remarkable, one of the top actresses I've ever worked with. Her resources are like a deep well." Brian de Palma added: "[Spacek is] a phantom. She has this mysterious way of slipping into a part, letting it take over her. She's got a wider range than any young actress I know." Spacek helped finance "Eraserhead" (1977), David Lynch's directorial debut, and she is thanked in the credits of the film. Spacek began the 1980s with an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980), in which she played country music star Loretta Lynn, who selected her for the role. In the film, both she and Beverly D'Angelo, who played Patsy Cline, performed their own singing. Film critic Roger Ebert has credited the movie's success "to the performance by Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn. With the same sort of magical chemistry she's shown before, when she played the high school kid in "Carrie," Spacek at 29 has the ability to appear to be almost any age on screen. Here, she ages from about 14 to somewhere in her 30s, always looks the age, and never seems to be wearing makeup." In addition, Andrew Sarris of "The Village Voice" wrote "Sissy Spacek – yes, I'm flabbergasted – is simple and faithful as Lynn. Spacek's face is no more of an actor's instrument than it ever was, but given a human being to play, given a director concerned with acting, she makes that woman exist.