A Civil Action

Duvall’s performance in A Civil Action (1998) was honored with his third Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. In 2002 he returned to directing with Assassination Tango, in which he played a hit man who, while on an assignment, becomes interested in the tango; he also wrote the…

…Falls on Manhattan (1996) and A Civil Action (1998), Gandolfini became an icon in his role-of-a-lifetime on The Sopranos, which debuted on HBO in 1999. The series was as much the story of a dysfunctional family as it was of the crime syndicate as endangered species, and at the centre…