Don’t Look Now (1973)
Nicolas Roeg's 1973 Venice grief drama. Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie.
Donald Sutherland worked constantly for six decades and never won a competitive Academy Award, receiving an honorary one in 2017. The face, long and slightly wrong, made him equally usable as a comic presence and a source of dread.
MASH and Kelly’s Heroes gave him the counterculture register, Klute and Don’t Look Now the serious dramatic work, and the final shot of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of the most effective endings in horror, resting entirely on his face and a sound.
Ordinary People is the performance most critics name, as a father holding a family together while it dissolves around him.
He worked into his late eighties and his son Kiefer has been open about how much of his own approach came from watching him.