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Actor: Ed Harris

Ed Harris has been nominated four times and won none, playing men with visible competence and a temper underneath it. The Right Stuff established the register as John Glenn, and Apollo 13 refined it as Gene Kranz.

The Abyss is the physical achievement. James Cameron’s shoot was notoriously punishing, with Harris nearly drowning, and he has declined to discuss the production for decades.

He directed and starred in Pollock, which he spent ten years developing and which won Marcia Gay Harden an Academy Award.

The Truman Show and Westworld gave him god-adjacent roles that use the authority differently, and A History of Violence is the best of his villains.

Apollo 13 (1995) film posterBill Paxton

Apollo 13 (1995) Review

The film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.

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The Abyss (1989) film posterEd Harris

The Abyss (1989) Review

The production achievement of The Abyss is extraordinary even by Cameron's standards. The Deepcore rig is a superbly designed setting, confined, functional, full of the specific texture of working machinery that Cameron consistently brings to his industrial environments.

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