Billy Bob ThorntonAwards

Born:
August 4, 1955 in Hot Springs, Arkansas
Occupation:
Actor, Screenwriter
Biography:
One of Hollywood's few celebrators of the "Southern bad boy" image, country musician turned actor-screenwriter-director Billy Bob Thornton consistently engenders a reputation -- via chosen onscreen parts and fervent tabloid reports of his allegedly wild off-camera life -- as an iconoclastic...Read More

  • Bad Santa

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

    Nominated
    Hollywood Foreign Press Association
    2003

  • Bandits

    Best Actor

    Won
    National Board of Review
    2001

  • The Man Who Wasn't There

    Best Actor

    Won
    National Board of Review
    2001

  • Monster's Ball

    Best Actor

    Won
    National Board of Review
    2001

  • The Man Who Wasn't There

    Best Actor

    Nominated
    American Film Institute
    2001

  • Bandits

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

    Nominated
    Hollywood Foreign Press Association
    2001

  • The Man Who Wasn't There

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

    Nominated
    Hollywood Foreign Press Association
    2001

  • A Simple Plan

    Best Supporting Actor

    Won
    Broadcast Film Critics Association
    1998

  • A Simple Plan

    Best Supporting Actor

    Won
    Los Angeles Film Critics Association
    1998

  • Primary Colors

    Best Supporting Actor

    Won
    Broadcast Film Critics Association
    1998

  • A Simple Plan

    Best Actor - Runner-up

    Won
    Toronto Film Critics Association
    1998

  • A Simple Plan

    Best Supporting Actor

    Nominated
    Screen Actors Guild
    1998

  • A Simple Plan

    Best Supporting Actor

    Nominated
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
    1998

  • Sling Blade

    Best Adapted Screenplay

    Won
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
    1996

  • Sling Blade

    Best Actor

    Won
    Chicago Film Critics Association
    1996

  • Sling Blade

    Special Achievement

    Won
    National Board of Review
    1996

  • Sling Blade

    Best First Feature

    Won
    Independent Spirit Awards
    1996

  • Sling Blade

    Best Actor

    Nominated
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
    1996

  • Sling Blade

    Best Actor

    Nominated
    Screen Actors Guild
    1996

  • One False Move

    Best Screenplay

    Nominated
    Independent Spirit Awards
    1992

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