Although his output slowed during the 1980s, Voight received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train ( 1985 ).

The film and the performances of Voight and co-star Burt Reynolds received great critical acclaim and were popular with audiences.

Voight received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe's award for Best Actor.

Voight next portrayed President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 2001's action / war film, Pearl Harbor, having accepted the role when Gene Hackman declined ( his performance was received favorably by critics ).

Voight played Major-General Juergen Stroop, the German officer responsible for the destruction of the Jewish resistance, and received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Big Spring was also featured in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, which starred Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight and received the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1969.

Voight at the 60th Academy Awards | Academy Awards in 1988

Fonda and Voight won an Academy Award for their performances.

It won Academy Awards for Best Actor ( Jon Voight ), Best Actress ( Jane Fonda ) and Best Original Screenplay ( Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, and Nancy Dowd ).

Voight and Roberts were both nominated for Academy Awards for their respective roles.

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor ( Jon Voight ), Best Supporting Actor ( Eric Roberts ) and Editing.

According to an interview featurette with Jon Voight on the DVD of Coming Home ( 1978 ), Cleland also served during this time as a consultant on the Academy Award-winning drama set in a VA hospital in 1968.

Starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, both in Academy Award-winning performances, it was for this film that Ashby earned his only Best Director nomination from the Academy for his work.

Academy Award nominations for Best Film, Best Actor ( J. Voight ) and Best Supporting Actor ( Eric Roberts ), USA, 1986.

* Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama – Jon Voight

Coming Home premiered at the at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival where Voight won the Award for Best Actor for his performance.

Golden Globes Award for Best Actor ( drama ) to Jon Voight ( USA ), 1986.

In the critically acclaimed CBS miniseries Pope John Paul II, released in December 2005, Voight, who was raised a Catholic, portrayed the pontiff from the time of his election until his death, garnering an Emmy nomination for the role.

Voight endorsed former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for the 2008 Republican Party nomination.

As Voight had reportedly been difficult and uncooperative during production, many feel that it was Ashby's skillful editing of a particularly melodramatic scene which earned him the nomination.

The year 1997 was a busy time for Voight in which he appeared in six films, beginning with Rosewood, based on the 1923 destruction of the primarily black town of Rosewood, Florida, by the white residents of nearby Sumner.

At the time of Jolie's birth, Bisset was starring with Jolie's father, Jon Voight, in the film End of the Game, which Schell directed.

Actors Mickey Rourke, Chuck Norris and Jon Voight also appear, while Voight's " pretty hot at one time " daughter is Angelina Jolie.

By the time Voight was caught, Armstrong's group was just four-himself, team-mate Jose Azevedo, Georg Totschnig and Ivan Basso.

Voight was estranged from his children for several years, but they reconciled in 2007 after Bertrand's death.

Both Voight and co-star Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor, but lost out to John Wayne in True Grit.

This film first teamed him with the actor-director Maximilian Schell, who acted out a character named, and based on, " Butcher Of Riga " Eduard Roschmann, and for whom Voight would appear in 1976's End of the Game, a psychological thriller based on a story by Swiss novelist and playwright, Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

Voight was Steven Spielberg's first choice for the role of Matt Hooper in the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, but he turned down the role, which was ultimately played by Richard Dreyfuss.

Voight, who was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of an embittered paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-anti-war activist Ron Kovic, with whom Fonda's character falls in love.

Jane Fonda won her second Best Actress award for her role, and Voight won for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Set in the Amazon, Voight played Paul Sarone, a snake hunter obsessed with a fabled giant anaconda, who hijacks an unwitting National Geographic film crew looking for a remote Indian tribe.

The following year, Voight had the lead role in the television movie The Fixer, in which he played Jack Killoran, a lawyer who crosses ethical lines in order to " fix " things for his wealthy clients.

Voight played Noah in the 1999 television production Noah's Ark, and appeared in Second String, also for TV.

Director Michael Mann tagged Voight for a small but crucial role in the 2001 biopic Ali, which starred Will Smith as the controversial former heavyweight champ, Muhammad Ali.

" In another interview in Miami with AventuraUSA. com, Voight said he first met Giuliani " years ago " at a movie premiere in New York City and the main reason for his support was Giuliani's public poise in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

In March 2008, Voight appeared at a rally aboard the in San Diego, California, for the kick-off of Vets for Freedom's National Heroes Tour.

In an April 11, 2008, interview on the CNN Headline News Glenn Beck Show Voight stated that he had thrown his support to Republican Senator John McCain for President.

The film was nominated for six Razzie Awards in 1998 including Worst Picture, Worst Actor ( Jon Voight ), Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, Worst New Star (" the animatronic anaconda ") and Worst Screen Couple ( Voight and " the animatronic anaconda ").

The film was nominated for two Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor ( Jon Voight, also for Most Wanted ).

Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his performance as a would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy ( 1969 ).

In Variety magazine, Todd McCarthy wrote, " The director's visual and aural dapplings are strikingly effective at their best, but over the long haul don't represent a satisfactory alternative to in-depth dramatic scenes ; one longs, for example, for even one sequence in which Ali and Dundee discuss boxing strategy or assess an opponent ", but he did have praise for the performances: " The cast is outstanding, from Smith, who carries the picture with consummate skill, and Voight, who is unrecognizable under all the makeup but nails Cosell's distinctive vocal cadences ".

: After years of gestation, the idea for the Toonerville Trolley was born one day up in Westchester County when my wife and I had left New York City to visit Charlie Voight, the cartoonist, in the Pelhams.

As a note of trivia, the cemetery was one of the scenes used in the filming of the 1972 thriller, Deliverance, starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight.