Judd Hirsch was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Ordinary People in 1980 and again for The Fabelmans in 2022, which is among the longest gaps between acting nominations on record.
Taxi won him two Emmy Awards, and Independence Day gave him a father role that became one of that film’s most quoted. His Fabelmans performance runs about ten minutes and dominates the film entirely.
Donald SutherlandOrdinary People (1980) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Robert Redford's first film as director is a carefully observed drama about a family that cannot discuss a death, and it won Best Picture and Director over Raging…
Bill PullmanDean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…
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