Phenomenon

…as Days of Thunder (1990), Phenomenon (1996), and A Family Thing (1996). He wrote, directed, and starred in The Apostle (1997), a pet project he spent years developing and that earned him his third Oscar nomination for best actor. Duvall’s performance in A Civil Action (1998) was honored with his…

…(played by John Travolta) in Phenomenon (1996), and the unsettling title hit man in Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999).