Actor: Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed and starred in Sling Blade, winning Best Adapted Screenplay and a Best Actor nomination for a character he had developed as a stage monologue.

A Simple Plan brought a supporting nomination, and Bad Santa gave him a comic register of complete misanthropy that the film never softens.

Fargo on television won him a Golden Globe, and he fronts a working rock band. He has been open about severe obsessive compulsive disorder and about how it affects the work.