Sissy Spacek Articles

Sissy Spacek in Todd Field's In the Bedroom Diane Lane, Christopher Walker, Roman Polanski: Oscar Veterans 2002 Sissy Spacek Sissy Spacek was nominated as Best Actress for her performance as a mother whose son was brutally killed in Todd Field's In the Bedroom. She lost to Halle Berry in Marc Forster's Monster's Ball. That was Spacek's first Oscar nod in 15 years. She had five [...]

AFFLICTION (1998) Direction: Paul Schrader Cast: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe, Mary Beth Hurt, Jim True, Marian Seldes Screenplay: Paul Schrader; from Russell Banks' novel Oscar Movies Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe, Sissy Spacek, Affliction Set in a snowy New England town, Affliction could have been an excellent depiction of a dysfunctional family's cycle of violence and how that is affected [...]

JFK Review: Part I The same cannot be said of Kevin Costner and Jim Garrison, who look about as similar as a camel and a platypus. Even so, that doesn't prevent Costner (right, with Donald Sutherland) from reaching a career apex as a tough and world-weary Mr. Smith who goes to Washington not to eulogize Lincoln or the country's Founding Fathers, but to learn about [...]

JFK (1991) Direction: Oliver Stone Cast: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Joe Pesci, Laurie Metcalf, Jack Lemmon, Sally Kirkland, Jay O. Sanders, Edward Asner, Walter Matthau, Vincent D'Onofrio, Michael Rooker, John Candy, Donald Sutherland Screenplay: Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar; from Jim Marrs' book Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy and Jim Garrison's book On the Trail of the Assassins [...]