Oscar Actors: Voight, Jon–Background, Career, Awards

Jon Voight (born December 29, 1938) is the winner of one Oscar Award, having been nominated for four.

He has also won four Golden Globe Awards and has been nominated for eleven. He is the father of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven.

Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his Oscar-nominated performance as Joe Buck, a would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy (1969).

During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance (1972); a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978), for which he won Best Actor Oscar; and a penniless ex-boxing champion in the remake of The Champ (1979).

His output became sparse during the 1980s and early 1990s, although he won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as the ruthless bank robber Oscar “Manny” Manheim in Runaway Train (1985). Voight made a comeback in Hollywood during the mid-1990s, starring in Michael Mann’s crime epic Heat (1995) opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. He portrayed Jim Phelps in Mission: Impossible (1996), a corrupt NSA agent in Enemy of the State (1998), and the unscrupulous attorney Leo F. Drummond in Coppola’s The Rainmaker (1997), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s, appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali (2001) for which his supporting performance was nominated for the Academy Award, the Golden Globe Award and a Critics Choice Award, and also as Nazi officer Jürgen Stroop in Uprising (2001), as Franklin D. Roosevelt in Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor (2001) and as Pope John Paul II in the eponymous miniseries (2005). Voight also appears in Showtime’s Ray Donovan TV series as Mickey Donovan, a role that brought him newfound critical and audience acclaim and his fourth Golden Globe win in 2014.

On November 21, 2019, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

Voight was born on December 29, 1938, in Yonkers, New York, to Barbara (née Kamp) and Elmer Voight (Elemír Vojtka, Slovakia), a professional golfer. He has two brothers, Barry Voight, a former volcanologist at Pennsylvania State University, and James Wesley Voight, known as Chip Taylor, a singer-songwriter who wrote “Wild Thing” and “Angel of the Morning”. Voight’s paternal grandfather and his paternal grandmother’s parents were Slovak immigrants, while his maternal grandfather and his maternal grandmother’s parents were German immigrants. Political activist Joseph P. Kamp was his great-uncle through his mother.

Voight was raised as a Catholic[8] and attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York, where he first took an interest in acting, playing the comedic role of Count Pepi Le Loup in the school’s annual musical, The Song of Norway. Following his graduation in 1956, he enrolled at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he majored in art and graduated with a B.A. in 1960. After graduation, Voight moved to New York City, where he pursued an acting career.

In the early 1960s, Voight found work in television, appearing in several episodes of Gunsmoke, between 1963 and 1968, as well as guest spots on Naked City and The Defenders, both in 1963, and Twelve O’Clock High, in 1966 and Cimarron Strip in 1968.

His theatre career took off in January 1965, playing Rodolfo in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge in an Off-Broadway revival.

Voight’s film debut did not come until 1967, when he took a part in Phillip Kaufman’s crimefighter spoof, Fearless Frank. Voight also took a small role in 1967’s western, Hour of the Gun, directed by veteran helmer John Sturges. In 1968 Voight took a role in director Paul Williams’s Out of It.

In 1969, Voight was cast in the groundbreaking Midnight Cowboy, a film that would make his career. Voight played Joe Buck, a naïve male hustler from Texas, adrift in New York City. He comes under the tutelage of Dustin Hoffman’s Ratso Rizzo, a tubercular petty thief and con artist. The film explored late 1960s New York and the development of an unlikely, but poignant friendship between the two main characters. Directed by John Schlesinger and based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, the film struck a chord with critics and audiences. Because of its controversial themes, the film was released with an X rating and would make history by being the only X-rated feature to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Both Voight and co-star Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor, but lost out to John Wayne in True Grit.

In 1970, Voight appeared in Mike Nichols’ adaptation of Catch-22, and re-teamed with director Paul Williams to star in The Revolutionary, as a left wing college student struggling with his conscience.

Voight next starred in 1972’s Deliverance. Directed by John Boorman, from a script that poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his own novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip in a feral, backwoods America. Both the film and the performances of Voight and co-star Burt Reynolds received great critical acclaim, and were popular with audiences.

Voight also appeared at the Studio Arena Theater, in Buffalo, New York in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire from 1973-74 as Stanley Kowalski.

Voight played a directionless young boxer in 1973’s The All American Boy, then appeared in the 1974 film, Conrack, directed by Martin Ritt. Based on Pat Conroy’s autobiographical novel The Water Is Wide, Voight portrayed the title character, an idealistic young schoolteacher sent to teach underprivileged black children on a remote South Carolina island. The same year he appeared in The Odessa File, based on Frederick Forsyth’s thriller, as Peter Miller, a young German journalist who discovers a conspiracy to protect former Nazis still operating within Germany. This film first teamed him with the actor-director Maximilian Schell, who acted out a character named and based on the “Butcher of Riga” Eduard Roschmann, and for whom Voight would appear in 1976’s End of the Game, a psychological thriller based on a story by Swiss novelist and playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

Voight was Spielberg’s first choice for the role of Matt Hooper in the 1975 film Jaws, but he turned down the role, which was ultimately played by Richard Dreyfuss.

In 1978, Voight portrayed the paraplegic Vietnam veteran Luke Martin in Hal Ashby’s film Coming Home, and was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of a cynical, yet noble paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-antiwar-activist Ron Kovic, with whom Fonda’s character falls in love. The film included a much-talked-about love scene between the two. Jane Fonda won her second Best Actress award for her role, and Voight won for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

In 1979, Voight once again put on boxing gloves, starring in 1979’s remake of the 1931 Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper vehicle, The Champ, with Voight playing the part of an alcoholic ex-heavyweight and a young Ricky Schroder playing the role of his adoring son. The film was an international success, but less popular with American audiences.

He next reteamed with director Ashby in 1982’s Lookin’ to Get Out, in which he played Alex Kovac, a con man who has run into debt with New York mobsters and hopes to win enough in Las Vegas to pay them off. Voight both co-wrote the script and also co-produced. He also produced and acted in 1983’s Table for Five, in which he played a widower bringing up his children by himself.

Also in 1983, Voight was slated to play Robert Harmon in John Cassavetes’ Golden Bear-winning Love Streams, having performed the role on stage in 1981. However, a few weeks before shooting began, Voight announced that he also wanted to direct the picture and was consequently dropped.

In 1985, Voight teamed up with Russian writer and director Andrei Konchalovsky to play the role of escaped con Oscar “Manny” Manheim in Runaway Train. The script was based on a story by Akira Kurosawa, and paired Voight with Eric Roberts as a fellow escapee. Voight received Oscar nomination for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe’s award for Best Actor. Roberts was also honored for his performance, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Voight followed up this and other performances with a role in the 1986 film, Desert Bloom, and reportedly experienced a “spiritual awakening” toward the end of the decade. In 1989 Voight starred in and helped write Eternity, which dealt with a television reporter’s efforts to uncover corruption.

He made his first acting debut into television movies, acting in 1991’s Chernobyl: The Final Warning, followed by The Last of his Tribe, in 1992. He followed with 1992’s The Rainbow Warrior for ABC, the story of the ill-fated Greenpeace ship sunk by French operatives in the Auckland Harbour. For the remainder of the decade, Voight would alternate between feature films and television movies, including a starring role in the 1993 miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove, a continuation of Larry McMurtry’s western saga, 1989’s Lonesome Dove. Voight played Captain Woodrow F. Call, the part played by Tommy Lee Jones in the original miniseries. Voight made a cameo appearance as himself on the Seinfeld episode “The Mom & Pop Store” airing November 17, 1994, in which George Costanza buys a car that appears to be owned by Jon Voight. Voight described the process leading up to the episode in an interview on the Red Carpet at the 2006 BAFTA Emmy Awards:

Well what happened was I was asked to be on Seinfeld. They said: “Would you do a Seinfeld?” And I said, and I just happened to know to see a few Seinfelds and I knew these guys were really tops; they were really, really clever guys, and I liked the show. And so I said “Sure!” and I thought they would ask me to do a walk-on, the way it came: “Would you come be part of the show?” And I said “Yeah, sure I’ll do it.” You know what I mean? Then I got the script and my name was on every page because it was about my car. And I laughed; it was hysterically funny. So I was really delighted to do it. The writer came up to me and he said “Jon, would you come take a look at my car to see if you ever owned it?”, because the writer wrote it from a real experience where someone sold him the car based on the fact that it was my car. And I went down and I looked at the car and I said “No, I never had this car.” So unfortunately I had to give him the bad news. But it was a funny episode.

In 1992, Voight appeared in the HBO film The Last of His Tribe.

In 1995, Voight played the role of “Nate”, a fence in the film, Heat, directed by Michael Mann, and appeared in the television films Convict Cowboy, and The Tin Soldier, also directing the latter film.

Voight next appeared in 1996’s blockbuster film Mission: Impossible, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Tom Cruise. Voight played the role of spymaster James Phelps, a role originated by Peter Graves in the television series.

In 1997, Voight appeared in six films, beginning with Rosewood, based on the 1923 destruction of the primarily black town of Rosewood, Florida, by the white residents of nearby Sumner. Voight played John Wright, a white Rosewood storeowner who follows his conscience and protects his black customers from the white rage. Voight next appeared in Anaconda. Set in the Amazon, he played Paul Sarone, a snake hunter obsessed with a fabled giant anaconda, who hijacks an unwitting National Geographic film crew who are looking for a remote Indian tribe. Voight next appeared in a supporting role in Oliver Stone’s U Turn, portraying a blind man. Voight took a supporting role in The Rainmaker, adopted from the John Grisham novel and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He played an unscrupulous lawyer representing an insurance company, facing off with a neophyte lawyer played by Matt Damon. His last film of 1997 was Boys Will Be Boys, a family comedy directed by Dom DeLuise.

The following year, Voight had the lead role in the television film The Fixer, in which he played Jack Killoran, a lawyer who crosses ethical lines in order to “fix” things for his wealthy clients. A near-fatal accident awakens his dormant conscience and Killoran soon runs afoul of his former clients. He also took a substantial role in Tony Scott’s 1998 political thriller, Enemy of the State, in which Voight played Will Smith’s character’s stalwart antagonist from the NSA .

Voight was reunited with director Boorman in 1998’s The General. Set in Dublin, Ireland, the film tells the true-life story of the charismatic leader of a gang of thieves, Martin Cahill, at odds with both the police and the Provisional IRA. Voight portrays Inspector Ned Kenny, determined to bring Cahill to justice.

Voight next appeared in 1999’s Varsity Blues. Voight played a blunt, autocratic football coach, pitted in a test of wills against his star player, portrayed by James Van Der Beek. Produced by fledgling MTV Pictures, the film became a surprise hit and helped connect Voight with a younger audience.

Voight played Noah in the 1999 television production Noah’s Ark, and appeared in Second String, also for TV. He also appeared with Cheryl Ladd in the feature A Dog of Flanders, a remake of a popular film set in Belgium.

2000s
Voight next portrayed President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 2001’s action/war film Pearl Harbor, having accepted the role when Gene Hackman declined (his performance was received favorably by critics). Also that year, he appeared as Lord Croft, father of the title character of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.[14] Based on the popular video game, the digital adventuress was played on the big screen by Voight’s own real-life daughter Angelina Jolie.

That year, he also appeared in Zoolander, directed by Ben Stiller who starred as the title character, a vapid supermodel with humble roots. Voight appeared as Zoolander’s coal-miner father. The film extracted both pathos and cruel humor from the scenes of Zoolander’s return home, when he entered the mines alongside his father and brothers and Voight’s character expressed his unspoken disgust at his son’s chosen profession.

Also in 2001, Voight joined Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria and David Schwimmer in the made-for-television film Uprising, which was based on the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. Voight played Major-General Juergen Stroop, the German officer responsible for the destruction of the Jewish resistance, and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie

Director Michael Mann tagged Voight for a supporting role in the 2001 biopic Ali, which starred Will Smith as the controversial former heavyweight champ, Muhammad Ali. Voight was almost unrecognizable under his make-up and toupée, as he impersonated the sports broadcaster Howard Cosell. Voight received his fourth Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, for his performance.

Also in 2001, he appeared in the television mini-series Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story along with Vanessa Redgrave, Matthew Modine, Richard Attenborough, and Mia Sara.

In the CBS miniseries Pope John Paul II, released in December 2005, Voight, who was raised a Catholic, portrayed the pontiff from the time of his election until his death, garnering an Emmy nomination for the role.

In 2003, he played the role of Marion Sevillo/Mr. Sir in Holes. In 2004, Voight joined Nicolas Cage, in National Treasure as Patrick Gates, the father of Cage’s character. In 2005, he played Pope John Paul II in the second part of CBS’ miniseries, Pope John Paul II. In 2006, he was Kentucky Wildcats head coach Adolph Rupp in the Disney hit Glory Road. In 2007, he played United States Secretary of Defense John Keller in the summer blockbuster Transformers, reuniting him with Holes star Shia LaBeouf. Also in 2007, Voight reprised his role as Patrick Gates in National Treasure: Book of Secrets. He appeared in Bratz with his goddaughter Skyler Shaye.

In 2009, Voight played Jonas Hodges, the American antagonist, in the seventh season of the hit Fox drama 24, a role that many argue is based on real life figures Alfried Krupp, Johann Rall and Erik Prince. Voight plays the chief executive officer of a fictional private military company based in northern Virginia called Starkwood, which has loose resemblances to Academi and ThyssenKrupp. Voight made his first appearance in the two-hour prequel episode 24: Redemption on November 23. He then went on to recur for 10 episodes of Season 7. He joined Dennis Haysbert as the only two actors ever to have been credited with the “Special Guest Appearance” card on 24. That same year Voight also lent his voice talents in the Thomas Nelson audio Bible production known as The Word of Promise. In this dramatized audio, Voight played the character of Abraham. The project also featured a large ensemble of other well known Hollywood actors including Jim Caviezel, Lou Gossett, Jr., John Rhys-Davies, Luke Perry, Gary Sinise, Jason Alexander, Christopher McDonald, Marisa Tomei and John Schneider.[15][16]

2010s

Voight in June 2013
In 2013, Voight made his much acclaimed appearance on Ray Donovan as Mickey Donovan, the main character’s conniving father. Voight received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2014 for his work on Ray Donovan.[17][18]

On March 26, 2019, Voight was appointed to a six-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.[19][20]

Political views

Voight alongside Donald Trump in 2019 after receiving the National Medal of Arts
In his early life, his political views aligned with American liberal views and he supported President John F. Kennedy, describing his assassination as traumatizing to people at that time.[21] He also worked for George McGovern’s voter registrations efforts in the inner cities of Los Angeles.[22] Voight actively protested against the Vietnam War.[23] In the 1970s, he made public appearances alongside Jane Fonda and Leonard Bernstein in support of the leftist Unidad Popular group in Chile.[24]

In a July 28, 2008 op-ed in The Washington Times, he wrote that he regretted his youthful anti-war activism, and claimed that the peace movement of that time was driven by “Marxist propaganda”. He also claimed that the radicals in the peace movement were responsible for the communists coming to power in Vietnam and Cambodia and for failing to stop the subsequent slaughter of 1.5 million people in the Killing Fields.[23]

In May 2008, Voight paid a solidarity visit to Israel in honor of its 60th birthday. “I’m coming to salute, encourage and strengthen the people of Israel on this joyous 60th birthday”, said Voight. “This week is about highlighting Israel as a moral beacon. At a time when its enemies threaten nuclear destruction, Israel heals.”[25]

Voight endorsed Republican presidential nominees Mitt Romney and Donald Trump in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections respectively.[26][27] Speaking at an inauguration rally for Donald Trump in January 2017 Voight said, “God answered all our prayers” by granting Trump the White House. In May 2019, Voight released a short two-part video on Twitter supporting President Trump’s policies, and calling him “the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln”.[28]

Personal life
In 1962, Voight married actress Lauri Peters, whom he met when they both appeared in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music. They divorced in 1967. He married actress Marcheline Bertrand in 1971. They separated in 1976, filed for divorce in 1978, and it was finalized in 1980. Their children, James Haven (born May 11, 1973) and Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975), would go on to enter the film business as actors and producers.

Voight has never remarried in the 40 years since his second divorce. Over the decades, he has dated Linda Morand, Stacey Pickren, Rebecca De Mornay, Eileen Davidson, Barbra Streisand, Nastassja Kinski and Diana Ross.

In popular culture
In the Seinfeld episode “The Mom & Pop Store”, George Costanza buys a 1989 Chrysler LeBaron thinking it was previously owned by Jon Voight, but Jerry points out that Jon Voight must have misspelled his first name with an “h” in the owner’s manual for this to be true. Jon Voight appears briefly as himself in the episode and bites Kramer on the arm. By the end of the episode it is revealed that the car was actually owned by a periodontist named John Voight.

Filmography
Film
Year Title Role Notes
1967 Fearless Frank Fearless Frank
Hour of the Gun Curly Bill Brocius
1969 Midnight Cowboy Joe Buck
Out of It Russ
1970 Catch-22 1st Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder
The Revolutionary A
1972 Deliverance Ed Gentry
1973 The All-American Boy Vic Bealer
1974 Conrack Pat Conroy
The Odessa File Peter Miller
1975 End of the Game Walter Tschanz Only released in West Germany in 1978
1978 Coming Home Luke Martin
1979 The Champ Billy Flynn
1982 Lookin’ to Get Out Alex Kovac Also writer
1983 Table for Five J. P. Tannen
1985 Runaway Train Oscar ‘Manny’ Manheim
1986 Desert Bloom Jack Chismore
1990 Eternity Edward / James Also writer
1995 Heat Nate
1996 Mission: Impossible Jim Phelps
1997 The Rainmaker Leo F. Drummond
Rosewood John Wright
Anaconda Paul Serone
U Turn Blind Man
Most Wanted Gen. Adam Woodward / Lt. Col. Grant Casey
1998 Enemy of the State Thomas Brian Reynolds
The General Ned Kenny
1999 Baby Geniuses N/A Co-executive producer
Varsity Blues Coach Bud Kilmer
A Dog of Flanders Michael La Grande
2001 Zoolander Larry Zoolander
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Lord Richard Croft
Pearl Harbor Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ali Howard Cosell
2003 Holes Mr. Sir/Marion Sevillo
2004 Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 Bill Biscane/Kane
The Manchurian Candidate Senator Thomas Jordan
National Treasure Patrick Gates
The Five People You Meet In Heaven Old Eddie
2006 The Legend of Simon Conjurer Dr. Crazx
Glory Road Adolph Rupp
2007 September Dawn Jacob Samuelson
Transformers Mr. John Keller
Bratz Principal Dimly
National Treasure: Book of Secrets Patrick Henry Gates
2008 Pride and Glory Francis Tierney Sr.
Four Christmases Creighton
An American Carol George Washington
Tropic Thunder Himself Cameo
2012 Beyond Jon Koski
Beatles Stories Himself Documentary
2013 Baby Geniuses and the Mystery of the Crown Jewels Taxi Driver Direct-to-video
Getaway Mysterious Voice
Dracula: The Dark Prince Leonardo Van Helsing
2014 Baby Geniuses and the Treasure of Egypt Moriarty Direct-to-video
The Final Song N/A Executive producer
2015 Woodlawn Paul “Bear” Bryant
Baby Geniuses and the Space Baby Moriarty Direct-to-video
2016 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Henry Shaw Sr.
American Wrestler: The Wizard Principal Skinner
2017 Same Kind of Different as Me Earl Hall
2018 Surviving the Wild Gus (Grandfather)
2020 Roe v. Wade Warren E. Burger Filming
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1963 Naked City Victor Binks Episode: “Alive and Still a Second Lieutenant”
The Defenders Cliff Wakeman 2 episodes
1966 Summer Fun Episode: “Kwimpers of New Jersey”
NET Playhouse Episode: “A Sleep of Prisoners”
12 O’Clock High Capt. Karl Holtke Episode: “Graveyard”
1966–68 Gunsmoke Petter Karlgren / Cory / Steven Downing 3 episodes
1967 Coronet Blue Peter Wicklow Episode: “The Rebels”
1967 N.Y.P.D. Adam Episode: “The Bombers”
1968 Cimarron Strip Bill Mason Episode: “Without Honor”
1991 Chernobyl: The Final Warning Dr. Robert Gale Movie
1992 The Rainbow Warrior Peter Willcox Movie
The Last of His Tribe Professor Alfred Kroeber Movie
1993 Return to Lonesome Dove Captain Woodrow F. Call Miniseries
1994 Seinfeld Himself Episode: “The Mom & Pop Store”
1995 Tin Soldier Yarik Movie; also director
Convict Cowboy Ry Weston Movie
1998 The Fixer N/A Movie; executive producer
1999 Noah’s Ark Noah Movie
2000 The Princess & the Barrio Boy N/A Movie; executive producer
2001 Uprising Maj. Gen. Jürgen Stroop Movie
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story Sigfriend “Siggy” Mannheim Miniseries
2002 Second String Head Coach Chuck Dichter Movie
2003 Jasper, Texas Billy Rowles Movie
2004 The Five People You Meet in Heaven Eddie Movie
The Karate Dog Hamilton Cage Movie
2005 Pope John Paul II John Paul II Miniseries
2008 24: Redemption Jonas Hodges Movie
2009 24 Jonas Hodges 10 episodes
2010 Lone Star Clint Thatcher 2 episodes
2013–2020 Ray Donovan Mickey Donovan 82 episodes
2016 JL Ranch John Landsburg Movie
2020 JL Ranch: The Wedding Gift John Landsburg Movie
Awards and nominations
Year Association Category Work Result
1969 BAFTA Awards Best Newcomer Midnight Cowboy Won
1969 Golden Globe Awards New Star of the Year – Actor Midnight Cowboy Won
1969 National Society of Film Critics Best Actor Midnight Cowboy Won
1969 New York Film Critics Circle Best Actor Midnight Cowboy Won
1969 Academy Awards Best Actor Midnight Cowboy Nominated
1969 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Midnight Cowboy Nominated
1972 Deliverance Nominated
1975 NAACP Image Award NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Conrack Nominated
1978 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Coming Home Won
1978 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Coming Home Won
1978 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Actor Coming Home Won
1978 National Board of Review Best Actor (tie) Coming Home Won
1978 New York Film Critics Circle Best Actor Coming Home Won
1978 National Society of Film Critics Best Actor Coming Home Nominated
1979 Academy Awards Best Actor Coming Home Won[29]
1979 Golden Globe Awards Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama The Champ Nominated
1985 Runaway Train Won
1985 Academy Awards Best Actor Runaway Train Nominated
1992 Golden Globe Awards Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film The Last of His Tribe Nominated
1997 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture The Rainmaker Nominated
2001 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor Ali Nominated
2001 Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Ali Nominated
2001 Chicago Film Critics Association Best Actor Ali Nominated
2001 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor Ali Nominated
2001 Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Ali Nominated
2001 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Uprising Nominated
2004 Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie The Five People You Meet in Heaven Nominated
2005 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Pope John Paul II Nominated
2013 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Ray Donovan Nominated
2013 Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Ray Donovan Won
2013 Critics’ Choice Television Awards Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Ray Donovan Nominated
2013 Satellite Awards Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Ray Donovan Nominated
2015 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Ray Donovan Nominated