![]() ![]() Woods got his start playing young punks in bit parts, and has always been a neurotic, angry guy in most of his character's portrayals. Which one do you think he should have won an award for.lolĢ016-2017 Justice League Action (TV Series)Ģ014 Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix (Video Game)Ģ012 Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom (Video Game)Ģ010 Kingdom Hearts Re:coded (Video Game)Ģ010 Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (Video)Ģ010 Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (Video Game)Ģ007 Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ (Video Game)Ģ006 Scarface: The World Is Yours (Video Game)Ģ004 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Video Game)Ģ004 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction (Video short)Ģ003 Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (TV Movie)Ģ002 Robbie the Reindeer in Legend of the Lost Tribe (TV Short) So since 2001 he has had no Golden Globe nominations.let's look at the body of work that he thinks he's been blacklisted from awards. Oh baloney - sour grapes over not getting parts - lol. James Woods: Former Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Philip Berk Blacklisted Me over Hillary Clinton Mentioned a #MeToo moment involving Brendan Fraser's own problems with the President of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assoc.'s definition of assault. He didn't support Hillary Clinton, with predictable results. A remarkable performer with an incredibly diverse range of acting talent, Woods remains one of Hollywood's outstanding leading men.Interesting article about this talented actor and former Dem. Woods also appeared in the critically praised The Virgin Suicides (1999), in the coming-of-age movie Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), as a corrupt medico in Any Given Sunday (1999), and in the comedy-horror spoof Scary Movie 2 (2001). Not to be typecast solely as hostile hoodlums, Woods has further expanded his range to encompass providing voice-overs for animated productions including Hercules (1997), Hooves of Fire (1999), and Stuart Little 2 (2002). Haldeman in Nixon (1995), portrayed serial killer Carl Panzram in Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995), and then as accused civil rights assassin Byron De La Beckwith in Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). ![]() Woods was equally impressive as sneaky hustler Lester Diamond who cons Sharon Stone in Casino (1995), made a tremendous H.R. The decade of the 1990s started off strongly with high praise for his role as Roy Cohn in the television production of Citizen Cohn (1992). There seemed to be no stopping the rise of this star as he continued to amaze movie-goers with his remarkable versatility and his ability to create such intense, memorable characters. Woods quickly followed up with another role in another Joseph Wambaugh film adaptation, The Black Marble (1980), as a sleazy and unstable cable-T.V.-station owner in David Cronenberg's mind-bending and prophetic Videodrome (1983), as gangster Max Bercovicz in Sergio Leones mammoth epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and scored a best actor Academy Award nomination as abrasive journalist Richard Boyle in Oliver Stone's gritty and unsettling Salvador (1986). However, it was Woods' cold-blooded performance as the cop killer in The Onion Field (1979), based on a Joseph Wambaugh novel, that seized the attention of movie-goers to his on-screen power. After appearing in a handful of New York City theater productions, Woods scored his first film role in All the Way Home (1971) and followed that up with meager supporting roles in The Way We Were (1973) and The Choirboys (1977). James earned a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropping out during his sophomore year in 1967, he then headed off to New York with his fraternity brother Martin Donovan to pursue aspirations to appear on the stage. He graduated from Pilgrim High School in 1965, near the top of his class. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather Thomas E. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. ![]() James Howard Woods was born on Apin Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. ![]()
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