Billy Bob Thornton
As actor, Mr. Thornton was Academy Award-nominated for his performance in Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan, for which he was additionally nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, and honored with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, for Best Supporting Actor. That film also earned him the first of his four Golden Globe Award nominations to date, with the others coming for his work in Joel and Ethan Coen's The Man Who Wasn't There (for which he additionally received an AFI Award nomination), Barry Levinson's Bandits, and Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa. He was named Best Actor of 2001 by the National Board of Review, for his work in The Man Who Wasn't There, Bandits, and Marc Forster's Monster's Ball.
Mr. Thornton's film credits as actor also include Richard Linklater's Bad News Bears, Peter Berg's Friday Night Lights, John Lee Hancock's The Alamo, Richard Curtis' Love Actually, Joel and Ethan Coen's Intolerable Cruelty, Ed Solomon's Levity, Michael Bay's Armageddon, Mike Nichols' Primary Colors, Oliver Stone's U Turn, Alex Cox' The Winner, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, James Keach's The Stars Fell on Henrietta, George Cosmatos' Tombstone, Adrian Lyne's Indecent Proposal, Taylor Hackford's Bound by Honor, and Mark Rydell's For the Boys. Six years prior to The Ice Harvest, he starred opposite John Cusack in Mike Newell's Pushing Tin. He next stars in Craig Gillespie's Mr. Woodcock and Michael Cristofer's Fade Out.
The 1996 release Sling Blade, which he starred in and directed from his own screenplay, was critically acclaimed and commercially successful, and secured his status as a sought-after actor and filmmaker. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was also Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated for Best Actor; and won the WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
As director, Mr. Thornton has also helmed the feature films Daddy and Them (which he also wrote and starred in) and All the Pretty Horses (based on Cormac McCarthy's best-selling novel of the same name), starring Matt Damon, Penélope Cruz, and Henry Thomas.
Prior to Sling Blade, Mr. Thornton had attained sleeper success with the independent feature One False Move, which he wrote (with Tom Epperson) and starred in (for director Carl Franklin).
Among his other screenplays are two more features written with Tom Epperson, A Family Thing (directed by Richard Pearce) and The Gift (directed by Sam Raimi).
Billy Bob Thornton Facts
| Occupation | Actor |
| Birthday | August 4, 1955 (54) |
| Sign | Leo |
| Birthplace | Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA |
| Height | 6' (1m83) |