Bill Paxton

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person William Paxton (May 17, 1955 – February 25, 2017) was an American actor, filmmaker and musician. A versatile character actor known for his distinctive Texan drawl and everyman screen persona,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> he was a four-time Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nominee, among other accolades.

Paxton starred in films like Near Dark (1987), Tombstone (1993), Apollo 13 (1995), Twister (1996), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and A Simple Plan (1998), and played supporting roles in Weird Science (1985), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and Nightcrawler (2014). He was a close collaborator of director James Cameron,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> appearing in his films The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), True Lies (1994), and Titanic (1997). He made his directorial debut with the 2001 horror film Frailty, in which he also starred, earning him Saturn Award nominations for Best Director and Best Horror Film.

On television, Paxton starred as Bill Henrickson on the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011), for which he earned three Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor – Television Series Drama during the show's run. He was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for portraying Randall McCoy in the History Channel miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012).

Early life

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Paxton being raised above the crowd as a child as President Kennedy emerges from the Hotel Texas before his assassination in November 1963

William Paxton<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} "On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middle name! My father doesn't like middle names."</ref> was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 17, 1955, the son of Mary Lou (née Gray; 1926–2016) and John Lane Paxton (1920–2011).<ref name="New York Times"/> His mother was a Catholic who raised him and his siblings in her faith.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His father was a businessman, lumber wholesaler, museum executive, and (during his son's career) an occasional actor, notably appearing in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films as Bernard Houseman and alongside Paxton in A Simple Plan (1998). His great-great-grandfather was Elisha Franklin Paxton (1828–1863), a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War who was killed commanding the Stonewall Brigade at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

Paxton is distantly related to actress Sara Paxton and was the great-nephew of Mary Paxton Keeley, a prominent journalist and close friend of Bess Truman. At the age of eight, he was in the crowd when President John F. Kennedy emerged from the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on the morning of his assassination on November 22, 1963. Photographs of Paxton being lifted above the crowd are on display at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He later co-produced the film Parkland about the assassination. He graduated from Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth in 1973, after which he studied at Richmond College in London, alongside his old high-school friend Danny Martin. There, they met fellow Texas native Tom Huckabee, with whom they made Super 8 short films for which they built their own sets.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> One of Paxton's first lead roles was in Huckabee's experimental film Taking Tiger Mountain. Paxton subsequently moved to Los Angeles, where he worked in props and art departments and as a parking valet at the Beverly Hills Hotel.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After being rejected by film schools in Southern California, he switched his ambitions from directing to acting.<ref name="Gilbey">Template:Cite news</ref>

Career

Acting and filmmaking

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Paxton in April 2010

Among Paxton's earliest roles were as a mortuary assistant in Mortuary (1983), a minor role as a punk in The Terminator (1984), a minor role as a bartender in Streets of Fire, a supporting role as the lead protagonist's bullying older brother Chet Donnelly in John Hughes's Weird Science (1985), and Private William Hudson in Aliens (1986).

He directed several short films, including the music video for Barnes & Barnes's novelty song "Fish Heads", which aired during Saturday Night LiveTemplate:'s low-rated 1980–81 season and was in heavy rotation during the early days of Canadian music channel MuchMusic. He was cast in a music video for the 1982 Pat Benatar song "Shadows of the Night" in which he appeared as a Nazi radio officer.

In 1981, Paxton worked in the movie Stripes<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as a soldier, in the bar scene with John Candy and Bill Murray.

He worked alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator (1984) and in Commando (1985), as well as in True Lies (1994), which reunited him with James Cameron.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He reunited with Cameron on Aliens (1986). His performance in the latter film as Private Hudson earned him the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He also appeared in Weird Science (1985). In 1987, Paxton played the most psychotic of the vampires, Severen, in Kathryn Bigelow's critically acclaimed neo-Western horror film, Near Dark.

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Paxton in April 2014

In 1990, Paxton appeared in Predator 2 (1990). He collaborated with James Cameron again on Titanic (1997), which was the highest-grossing film of all time at its release. In his other roles, Paxton played Morgan Earp in Tombstone (1993), Fred Haise in Apollo 13 (1995), Bill Harding in Twister (1996), and lead roles in dark dramas such as One False Move (1992) and A Simple Plan (1998). In 1990, he co-starred with Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn in Navy Seals.

Paxton also appeared in Indian Summer (1993) and Mighty Joe Young (1998). After 2000, he appeared in U-571 (2000), Vertical Limit (2000), Frailty (2001), Broken Lizard's Club Dread (2004), Thunderbirds (2004), Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and Nightcrawler (2014).

Paxton directed the feature films Frailty (2001), in which he also starred, and The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005).<ref name="tcmdb" /> Four years after appearing in Titanic, he joined Cameron on an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic. A film about this trip, Ghosts of the Abyss, was released in 2003.<ref name="tcmdb" /> He also appeared in the music video for Limp Bizkit's 2003 song "Eat You Alive" as a sheriff. In addition, Paxton also played a character in both Spy Kids 2 and Spy Kids 3-D.

Paxton starred in "A Bright Shining Lie" (HBO 1998), an American war drama television film written and directed by Terry George, based on Neil Sheehan's 1988 book of the same name and the true story of John Paul Vann's experience in the Vietnam War.

His highest-profile television performances received much positive attention, including his lead role in HBO's Big Love (2006–2011), for which Paxton received three Golden Globe Award nominations.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also received positive reviews for his performance in the History Channel's miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012), for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award alongside co-star, Kevin Costner.

In 2014, he played the role of the villainous John Garrett in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and a supporting role in Edge of Tomorrow (2014).<ref name="tcmdb" /> He starred alongside Jon Bernthal, Rose McGowan and John Malkovich as a playable character in the 2014 video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (downloadable "Exo Zombies" mode).<ref name="cod">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Paxton starred as General Sam Houston in the Western miniseries Texas Rising for The History Channel in 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In February 2016, Paxton was cast as Detective Frank Rourke for Training Day, a crime-thriller television series set 15 years after the events of the eponymous 2001 movie.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It premiered a year later.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His final film appearance was in The Circle (2017), released two months after his death.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Music

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} In 1982, Paxton and his friend Andrew Todd Rosenthal formed a new wave musical band called Martini Ranch. The band released its only full-length album, Holy Cow, in 1988 on Sire Records.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The album was produced by Devo member Bob Casale, and featured guest appearances by two other members of that band.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The music video for the band's single "Reach" was directed by James Cameron.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> In 2018, his performances as Peter "Coconut Pete" Wabash in Broken Lizard's Club Dread were released posthumously on the album Take Another Hit: The Best of Coconut Pete.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Personal life

Paxton married Kelly Rowan in 1979 and they divorced a year later.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He later met Louise Newbury on the Number 37 bus in Twickenham, London, where she was a student, and they were married in 1987.<ref name="New York Times"/> They lived in Ojai, California, and had two children: son James (b. 1994), who also became an actor, and daughter Lydia (b. 1997).<ref name="New York Times">Template:Cite news</ref>

Death and lawsuit

In early 2017, Paxton stated in an interview on WTF with Marc Maron that he had a damaged aortic heart valve, resulting from rheumatic fever that he contracted as a child.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On February 14, 2017, he underwent open-heart surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to repair the damaged valve and correct an aortic aneurysm.<ref>Bill Paxton Died Of Stroke Following Surgery – Update March 6, 2017.</ref><ref name=strickland>Template:Cite news</ref> A day later, he underwent an emergency second surgery to repair a damaged coronary artery.<ref name=deerwester/> His condition deteriorated over the following 10 days, and he died of a stroke on February 25 at the age of 61.<ref name="New York Times"/><ref name="Gilbey"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="NBC News">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was cremated and his ashes were buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park of Hollywood Hills.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

One year after Paxton's death, his family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Ali Khoynezhad, the surgeon who performed his operation, alleging that Khoynezhad used "high-risk and unconventional" methods and that he was not present in the operating room when Paxton developed complications such as ventricular dysfunction, tachycardia, and a compromised right coronary artery, which they claim contributed to the coronary artery damage that necessitated a second surgery and ultimately led to Paxton's death.<ref name=deerwester>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The case was set for trial in Los Angeles Superior Court in March 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In February 2022, Paxton's family reached a partial settlement with General Anesthesia Specialists Partnership for $1 million.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In August 2022, the case was settled against Cedars-Sinai and Khoynezhad under undisclosed terms.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Tributes

Public figures

Many dozens of filmmakers and actors across the entertainment spectrum paid tribute to Paxton in the aftermath of his death.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=tribute>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

On February 26, 2017, while introducing the annual In Memoriam segment at the 89th Academy Awards the day after Paxton's death, a visibly emotional Jennifer Aniston paid tribute to him.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His Big Love co-star Chloë Sevigny remembered him as "one of the less cynical, jaded people [she'd] ever met in the business" and said, "He believed in entertainment being transportive and transformative. He believed in the magic of what we can bring to people. That was really a gift that he gave to me."<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The television show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. paid tribute at the end of its season-four episode "What If...", and a number of storm chasers paid tribute to his role in Twister by spelling out his initials "BP" via the Spotter Network.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Films

The 2017 film Call Me by Your Name was dedicated to Paxton's memory. The film's producer, Peter Spears, explained that his husband Brian Swardstrom, who was also Paxton's best friend and agent, once visited the set with Paxton during filming and befriended the film's director Luca Guadagnino, who ultimately decided to dedicate the film "in loving memory of Bill Paxton". Close friend and frequent collaborator James Cameron wrote a tribute in an article for Vanity Fair, detailing their 36-year friendship and expressing regret over the projects they would not be able to make together.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The 2019 John Travolta film The Fanatic, which co-starred Paxton's son James, was dedicated to Paxton. James would later play a younger version of Paxton's S.H.I.E.L.D. character in the final season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which served as a tribute to his role in the show. Cameron's 2022 film, Avatar: The Way of Water was dedicated to the memory of Paxton as well as to James Horner, who previously worked with Cameron on Aliens, Titanic and the first Avatar. Paxton worked with both Cameron and Horner on the former two films. Cameron had hoped to cast Paxton in the Avatar sequels before his death.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Abbr
1975	Crazy Mama	John	Uncredited	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1981	Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker/Night Warning	Eddie	as William Paxton
	Stripes	Soldier #8		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1983	Reckless	'Bobo'
	Template:Sortname	Gilbreath		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Mortuary	Paul Andrews		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Taking Tiger Mountain	Billy Hampton		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1984	Streets of Fire	Clyde The Bartender		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Impulse	Eddie		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Template:Sortname	Johnny		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1985	Weird Science	Chet Donnelly		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Commando	Intercept Officer #1		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1986	Aliens	Private William Hudson		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1987	Near Dark	Severen		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1988	Pass the Ammo	Jesse Wilkes		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1989	Slipstream	Matt Owens		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Next of Kin	Gerald Gates		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Back to Back	Bo Brand		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1990	Brain Dead	Jim Reston		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Template:Sortname	Howard 'Hojo' Jones		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Navy SEALs	Floyd "God" Dane		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Predator 2	Detective Jerry Lambert		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1991	Template:Sortname	Gus		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1992	One False Move	Sheriff Dale 'Hurricane' Dixon		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Template:Sortname	Graham Krakowski		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Trespass	Vince		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1993	Boxing Helena	Ray O'Malley		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Indian Summer	Jack Belston		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Monolith	Tucker		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Tombstone	Morgan Earp		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1994	Future Shock	Vince		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	True Lies	Simon		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1995	Apollo 13	Fred Haise		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Template:Sortname	Zachary Cody		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Frank and Jesse	Frank James		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1996	Twister	Dr. Bill Harding		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Template:Sortname	Jerry Bruckner		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1997	Traveller	Bokky		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Titanic	Brock Lovett		<ref name="tcmdb" />
1998	Template:Sortname	Hank Mitchell		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Mighty Joe Young	Professor Gregory O'Hara		<ref name="tcmdb" />
2000	U-571	Lieutenant Commander Mike Dahlgren		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Vertical Limit	Elliot Vaughn		<ref name="tcmdb" />
2001	Frailty	Dad Meiks	Also director	<ref name="tcmdb" />
2002	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	'Dinky' Winks	Cameo	<ref name="tcmdb" />
2003	Ghosts of the Abyss	Himself / narrator		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Resistance	Major Ted Brice		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	'Dinky' Winks	Cameo	<ref name="tcmdb" />
2004	Broken Lizard's Club Dread	Pete 'Coconut Pete' Wabash		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Thunderbirds	Jeff Tracy		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Haven	Carl Ridley		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2005	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D	Edgar Mitchell	Short film	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2007	Template:Sortname	Robbie		<ref name="tcmdb" />
2011	Haywire	John Kane
	Tornado Alley	Narrator
2012	Shanghai Calling	Donald		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2013	The Colony	Mason		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	2 Guns	CIA Agent Earl		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Red Wing	Jim Verret		<ref name="tcmdb" />
2014	Million Dollar Arm	Tom House		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Edge of Tomorrow	Master Sergeant Farell		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Nightcrawler	Joe Loder		<ref name="tcmdb" />
2015	Pixies	Eddie Beck	Voice	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2016	Term Life	Detective Joe Keenan		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Mean Dreams	Wayne Caraway		<ref name="tcmdb" />
2017	The Circle	Vinnie Holland	Posthumous release	<ref name="tcmdb" />

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Abbr
1983	Deadly Lessons	Eddie Fox	Movie	<ref name="tcmdb" />
1985	Template:Sortname	Bob Maracek		<ref name="tcmdb" />
	The Atlanta Child Murders	Campbell	Miniseries	<ref name="tcmdb" />
1986	Fresno	Billy Joe Bobb	Miniseries (4 episodes)	<ref name="tcmdb" />
	Miami Vice	Detective Vic Romano	Episode: "Streetwise"
1987	The Hitchhiker	Trout	Episode: "Made for Each Other"	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1993	Tales from the Crypt	Billy DeLuca	Episode: "People Who Live in Brass Hearses"
1998	Template:Sortname	John Paul Vann	Movie	<ref name="tcmdb" />
2003	Frasier	Ernie	Episode: "Analyzed Kiss"
2006–11	Big Love	Bill Henrickson	Lead role (53 episodes)	<ref name="NYTObit">Template:Cite news</ref>
2012	Hatfields & McCoys	Randolph McCoy	Miniseries (3 episodes)	<ref name="NYTObit" />
2013	JFK: The Day That Changed Everything	Narrator	Documentary	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2014	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	John Garrett	6 episodes
2015	Texas Rising	Sam Houston	Miniseries	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	The Gamechangers	Jack Thompson	Movie	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2017	Training Day	Detective Frank Roarke	Lead role (13 episodes)

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Role	Notes	Ref.
1980	"Fish Heads"	Barnes & Barnes	Main character	Also director	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
1982	"Love Tap"		Main character
	"Shadows of the Night"	Pat Benatar	Wehrmacht-Unteroffizier		<ref name="filmreference" />
1983	"Soak It Up"	Barnes & Barnes	Main character
1984	"Ah Ā"
1986	"How Can the Labouring Man Find Time for Self-Culture?"	Martini Ranch
1987	"Touched by the Hand of God"	New Order			<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1988	"Reach"	Martini Ranch	Main character		<ref name="filmreference" />
2003	"Eat You Alive"	Limp Bizkit	Sheriff		<ref name="filmreference" />

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2015	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare	Kahn	Exo Zombies	<ref name="cod" />

Theme park attractions

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Twister...Ride it Out	Himself	Pre-show co-host with Helen Hunt

Production work

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer	Notes
1977	The Egyptian Princess, an Unfolding Fantasy	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No	Short
1980	Saturday Night Live	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No	1 episode
	Barnes & Barnes: Fish Heads	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Video short; Executive producer
1981	Barnes & Barnes: Love Tap	Template:No	Template:No	Template:Yes	Video short; Head writer
1982	Scoop	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Short Co-writer
1988	Martini Ranch: Reach	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No	Video short
	Martini Ranch: How Can the Laboring Man Find Time for Self-Culture	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No	Video Short
1997	Traveller	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No
2001	Frailty	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No
2005	Template:Sortname	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:No	<ref name="tcmdb" />
2007	The Good Life	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No	Executive producer
2011	Tattoo	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:Yes	Short
2013	Parkland	Template:No	Template:Yes	Template:No

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Title	Result	Template:Abbr
1983	USA Film Festival	Honorable Mention	Scoop	Template:Won
1987	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Aliens	Template:Won	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1995	CableACE Awards	Best Actor in a Dramatic Series	Tales from the Crypt	Template:Nom	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1996	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Apollo 13	Template:Won	<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1997	Saturn Awards	Best Actor	Twister	Template:Nom
1998	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Titanic	Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1999	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film	A Bright Shining Lie	Template:Nom	<ref name="GG">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2003	Saturn Awards	Best Director	Frailty	Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2006	Satellite Awards	Best Actor – Television Series Drama	Big Love	Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2007				Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actor – Television Series Drama		Template:Nom	<ref name="GG" />
2008				Template:Nom	<ref name="GG" />
2009	Satellite Awards	Best Actor – Television Series Drama		Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2010	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actor – Television Series Drama		Template:Nom	<ref name="GG" />
2012	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie	Hatfields & McCoys	Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2013	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie		Template:Nom	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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