Jon Voight is an American actor known for his roles on stage and screen. He received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and four Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Voight won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978). His was Oscar-nominated for playing Joe Buck, a gigolo, in Midnight Cowboy (1969), a ruthless bank robber Oscar "Manny" Manheim in Runaway Train (1985) and as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali (2001). He won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles and the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor. He also received three Golden Globe Awards for Coming Home, Runaway Train and Ray Donovan (2014).
For his roles in television he received four Primetime Emmy Awards nominations for his performances as Major General Jürgen Stroop in the NBC war drama film Uprising (2001), the title role in the CBS miniseries Pope John Paul II (2005), and Michael "Mickey" Donovan in the Showtime crime series Ray Donovan (2013–2020). For his performance as Eddie in the religious drama The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2005) he received a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie.
Major awards Academy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1970 Best Actor Midnight Cowboy 1979 Coming Home 1986 Runaway Train 2002 Best Supporting Actor Ali
BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.British Academy Film Awards 1969 Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Midnight Cowboy
Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2001 Best Supporting Actor Ali Critics' Choice Television Awards 2014 Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Ray Donovan 2016 Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.Primetime Emmy Awards 2002 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a MovieUprising 2006 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Pope John Paul II 2014 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Ray Donovan (episode: "Fite Nite") 2016 Ray Donovan (episode: "The Kalamazoo")
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 1970 Most Promising Newcomer – Male Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Midnight Cowboy 1973 Deliverance 1979 Coming Home 1980 The Champ 1986 Runaway Train 1993 Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Movie The Last of His Tribe 1998 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture The Rainmaker 2002 Ali 2014 Best Supporting Actor – Television Ray Donovan (season 1) 2015 Ray Donovan (season 2)
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2005 Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Critics awards AwardYearCategoryNominated workResult Chicago Film Critics Association 2001 Best Supporting Actor Ali Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association 2001 Best Supporting Actor Ali Los Angeles Film Critics Association 1978 Best Actor Coming Home National Board of Review 1978 Best Actor Coming Home 2001 Career Achievement Award National Society of Film Critics 1969 Best Actor Midnight Cowboy 1978 Best Actor Coming Home New York Film Critics Circle 1969 Best Actor Midnight Cowboy 1978 Best Actor Coming Home
Miscellaneous awards AwardYearCategoryNominated workResult Beverly Hills Film Festival 2011 Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 1998 Favorite Villain Enemy of the State Boston Film Festival 2016 Best Ensemble Cast American Wrestler: The Wizard CableACE Awards 1993 Actor in a Movie or Miniseries The Last of His Tribe 1995 Children's Special – 7 and Older The Tin Soldier Cannes Film Festival 1978 Best Actor Coming Home CineVegas 2009 Marquee Award Giffoni Film Festival 1995 François Truffaut Award Gold Derby Awards 2005 TV Movie/Mini Lead Actor The Five People You Meet in Heaven Golden Raspberry Awards 1997 Worst Actor Anaconda Worst Supporting Actor Most Wanted and U Turn Worst Screen Couple Anaconda 2004 Worst Supporting Actor Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 2007 Bratz, National Treasure: Book of Secrets September Dawn, and Transformers 2023 Worst Actor Mercy 2024 Worst Supporting Actor Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land, and Strangers Worst Screen Combo Megalopolis Laurel Awards 1969 Male New Face Midnight Cowboy Movieguide Awards 2016 Best Actor Woodlawn NAACP Image Awards 1975 Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Conrack Online Film & Television Association 2006 Best Actor in a Motion Picture or Miniseries Pope John Paul II Polish Film Festival (Los Angeles) 2015 Pola Negri Award Pope John Paul II Satellite Awards 2013 Best Supporting Actor – Television Ray Donovan ShoWest Convention 1979 Male Star of the Year Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1997 Worst Supporting Actor Anaconda Most Annoying Fake Accent Anaconda and Most Wanted 2004 Worst Supporting Actor Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 Worst Fake Accent – Male Theatre World Awards 1967 Distinguished Performance That Summer - That Fall Vienna Independent Film Festival 2020 Best Supporting Actor Roe v. Wade Western Heritage Awards 1994 Television Feature Film Return to Lonesome Dove
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