* Under Suspicion ( 2000 film ), a film starring Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman

The stadium served as the home field for the fictional Washington Sentinels in the 2000 film The Replacements with Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman ( ironically, it was called Nextel Stadium ).

His last film was The Replacements in 2000, opposite Gene Hackman and Keanu Reeves.

Other movies in which Suárez participated are: La Gran Fiesta ( 1985 ); Isabel la Negra ( 1990 ) with Míriam Colón and Raúl Juliá ; Havana ( 1990 ) produced by Sidney Pollack and Under Suspicion ( 2000 ) with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Nydia Caro.

She also appeared alongside Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman in the 2000 film The Replacements, and had a brief role in the 1996 indie film Swingers as Nikki.

Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned five decades.

" Determined to prove them wrong, Hackman hopped on a bus bound for New York City.

Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor as the character Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle in The French Connection ( film ) | The French Connection, 1971

Hackman showed a talent for both comedy and the " slow burn " as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor in Superman: The Movie ( 1978 ), as he would in its 1980 and 1987 sequels.

By the end of the 1980s, Hackman alternated between leading and supporting roles, earning another Best Actor nomination for Mississippi Burning.

In 2003 at the Golden Globes, Hackman was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his " outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.

Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star ( 1999 ), a sea adventure of the 19th century, Justice for None ( 2004 ), a Depression-era tale of murder, and Escape from Andersonville ( 2008 ) about a prison escape during the Civil War.

The Job Characteristics Theory of motivation identifies core job dimensions that provide motivation for individuals and include: skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback ( Hackman & Oldham, 1980 ).

Such expansions of team task assignments can make teams more effective and require teams to spend greater amounts of time discussing and planning strategies and approaches for completing assigned tasks ( Hackman, et al., 1976 ).

Gene Hackman portrays Lex Luthor in the 1978 Superman film, along with two of its sequels, Superman II ( 1980 ) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 ).

After two years there, Hackman headed for New York City, with Hoffman soon following.

Five years earlier, Welbach had caused a traffic accident in which he hit the car of local mobster Arnold Margolese ( Gene Hackman ), who was jailed for five years after the police searched his car following the crash, finding someone tied up in his trunk.

Despite having rejected the Oscar the previous year for his work in Patton, Scott was nominated for Best Actor, but the gold statuette went instead to Gene Hackman for The French Connection.

He was also Oscar-nominated for his performance in the film version of Fiddler, but lost to Gene Hackman, who won for his performance in The French Connection.

It also won Academy Awards for Best Actor ( Gene Hackman ), Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Ernest Tidyman ).

He was strongly opposed to the choice of Hackman for the lead, and actually first considered Paul Newman ( out of the budget range ), then Jackie Gleason, and a New York columnist, Jimmy Breslin, who had never acted before.

Friedkin almost settled for Rod Taylor ( who had actively pursued the role, according to Hackman ), another choice the studio approved, before he went with Hackman.

In 1985, New Richmond, Indiana was turned into Hickory, Indiana for the filming of the motion picture Hoosiers, starring Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, and Dennis Hopper.

It won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Hackman ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( McDormand ), Best Director, Best Film Editing ( Gerry Hambling ), Best Picture and Best Sound.

Functional leadership theory ( Hackman & Walton, 1986 ; McGrath, 1962 ; Adair, 1988 ; Kouzes & Posner, 1995 ) is a particularly useful theory for addressing specific leader behaviors expected to contribute to organizational or unit effectiveness.

Eugene Allen " Gene " Hackman ( born January 30, 1930 ) is a retired American actor and novelist.

Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Lyda ( née Gray ) and Eugene Ezra Hackman.

At sixteen years, Hackman left home to join the United States Marine Corps, where he served four-and-a-half years as a field radio operator.

In 1956, Hackman began pursuing an acting career ; he joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California.

Already seen as outsiders by their classmates, Hackman and Hoffman were later voted " The Least Likely To Succeed.

A 2004 article in Vanity Fair described how Hackman, Hoffman and Robert Duvall were all struggling actors and close friends while living in New York City in the 1960s.

Hackman was working as a doorman when he ran into an instructor whom he had despised at the Pasadena Playhouse.

Reinforcing " The Least Likely To Succeed " vote, the man had said, " See, Hackman, I told you you wouldn't amount to anything.

Hackman began performing in several Off-Broadway plays.

In 1967, Hackman appeared in an episode of the television series The Invaders entitled The Spores.

That same year, Hackman appeared in what became one of his most famous comedic roles as the blind hermit in Young Frankenstein.

During this decade Hackman also could be seen in Reds, Under Fire, Hoosiers, Power, Uncommon Valor and Bat * 21.

Hackman co-starred with Tom Cruise as a corrupt lawyer in The Firm ( 1993 ) and appeared in a second John Grisham story in 1996, playing a convict on death row in The Chamber.

In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

Hackman starred in the David Mamet crime film Heist, as an aging professional thief of considerable skill who is forced into one final job and the comedy Heartbreakers alongside Sigourney Weaver, Ray Liotta and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

On July 7, 2004, Hackman gave a rare interview to Larry King, in which Hackman announced that he had no future film projects lined up and believes his acting career is over.