Sissy Spacek won Best Actress for Coal Miner’s Daughter, singing all of Loretta Lynn’s songs herself at Lynn’s insistence.
Carrie brought her first nomination at twenty-six, playing a sixteen-year-old, and the prom sequence is one of the most reproduced in horror. Badlands and In the Bedroom fill out a career of six nominations. She has consistently lived in Virginia and not Los Angeles.
Everett McGillThe Straight Story (1999) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. David Lynch made a G-rated film about a seventy-three-year-old man driving a lawnmower three hundred miles to see his dying brother, and it is the least ironic…
Martin SheenBadlands (1973) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Malick's first film takes a real killing spree and narrates it in the voice of a fifteen-year-old girl who describes murder in the vocabulary of a movie magazine. The…
Amy IrvingBrian De Palma's 1976 King adaptation. Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, John Travolta supporting.
Donald Sutherland1991 Oliver Stone conspiracy drama with Kevin Costner as New Orleans DA Jim Garrison prosecuting Clay Shaw for the Kennedy assassination. JFK is Oliver Stone's 1991 American historical drama.
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