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John Hurt. Jump to. 22 wins & 18 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1981 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. The Elephant Man. 1979 Nominee Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Midnight Express. Australian Film Institute. 2005 Nominee AFI Award. Best Supporting Actor. The Proposition. Berlin International Film Festival.
Hurt earned Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Midnight Express (1978), and Best Actor for The Elephant Man (1980). Other films include Alien (1979), Heaven's Gate (1980), Champions (1984), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), The Hit (1984), Scandal (1989), The Field (1990), Rob Roy (1995), and Contact (1997).
Hurt's bold, unabashed approach on the flamboyant and controversial gent who dared to be different was rewarded with the BAFTA (British TV Award). This triumph led to the equally fascinating success as the cruel and crazed Roman emperor Caligula in the epic television masterpiece I, Claudius (1976) , followed by another compelling ...
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Jun 18, 2024 · For his magnetic performance in the latter as a heroin addict in a Turkish prison, he received a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award and was nominated for an Academy Award.
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- Alien. Film (1979) 53 votes. In Ridley Scott's 1979 movie Alien, the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, led by Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), encounter an unknown life form after being awakened from stasis to investigate a distress signal from a distant planet.
- The Elephant Man. Film (1980) 62 votes. In the gripping biographical drama, The Elephant Man, John Merrick (John Hurt) is a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four. Film (1984) 38 votes. A man loses his identity while living under a repressive regime. In a story based on George Orwell's classic novel, Winston Smith (John Hurt) is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light.
- 10 Rillington Place. Film (1971) 21 votes. A seemingly model citizen living in mid-century London, John Christie (Richard Attenborough) is actually a killer.
Jan 26, 2012 · The legendary characters he portrayed include Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Rich in A Man For All Seasons – a film which won seven BAFTA Awards and six Academy Awards – and Max in Midnight Express, for which he won the BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for Best Supporting Actor.
Jan 25, 2017 · Hurt's performance in the prison drama Midnight Express (1978) brought him international renown and earned Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards, along with an Academy Award nomination.
