John Malkovich Wiki Biography
John Gavin Malkovich, simply known as John Malkovich, is a famous American actor, fashion designer, film producer and director, as well as a businessman. During his lengthy acting career, John Malkovich has starred in over seventy films, many of which brought him awards and accolades, and established him as a prominent actor in the industry. Malkovich’s rise to fame began in 1984, where he starred alongside Sally Field, Danny Glover and Ed Harris in Robert Benton’s award-winning drama film “Place in the Heart”. For his role of Mr. Will, John Malkovich received a nomination for an Academy Award, while the movie itself collected an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, as well as a Silver Bear Award.
John Malkovich Net Worth $45 Million
The next wave of Malkovich’s success came in 1993 with a thriller film directed by Wolfgang Petersen entitled “In the Line of Fire”, where the main characters were portrayed by Clint Eastwood and Rene Russo. The film gathered several award nominations and with mainly positive critical reviews grossed more than $187 million in the box office worldwide. A famous actor, how rich is John Malkovich? According to sources, John Malkovich’s net worth is estimated to be $45 million. Needless to say, most of Malkovich’s wealth comes from his acting career.
John Malkovich was born in 1953, in Christopher, Illinois, however he spent most of his childhood in Benton, where he attended Benton Consolidated High School. Malkovich’s passion for acting started in high school when he began appearing in musicals, as well as other school and theatre plays. Malkovich’s interest in theatre influenced his decision to major in the subject in the Illinois State University. Prior to his huge success, John Malkovich was a part of “Steppenwolf Theatre Company” based in Chicago with which he worked on various plays. In order to pursue an acting opportunity, John Malkovich moved out to New York in 1980 where he appeared in Sam Shepard’s play “True West”. Malkovich’s performance in this play earned him an Obie Award.
Before making his debut in television, John Malkovich made several more appearances on theatre stages and debuted on Broadway in Arthur Miller’s play entitled “Death of a Salesman”.
Malkovich’s first film was Robert Altman’s “A Wedding”, a comedy movie starring Carol Burnett, Lillian Gish and Geraldine Chaplin, where he appeared as an extra in some of the scenes. Malkovich then went on to star in “Places in the Heart” and since then has been a part of some of the best known movies. Malkovich appeared in “Of Mice and Men” with Casey Siemaszko, “Empire of the Sun” with Christian Bale and Nigel Havers, and Spike Jonze’s “Being John Malkovich” with John Cusack, Cameron Diaz and Catherine Keener.
In regards to his career as a producer, John Malkovich produced such films as “Juno” with Michael Cera, Jason Bateman and Ellen Page, which won an Academy Award and three Oscar nominations, “Young Adult” with Charlize Theron, and more recently an award-winning film entitled “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” with Logan Lerman.
| Full Name | John Malkovich |
| Net Worth | $45 Million |
| Date Of Birth | December 9, 1953 |
| Place Of Birth | Christopher, Illinois, United States |
| Height | 6 ft (1.83 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Fashion designer, Film director, Businessperson, Voice Actor, Film Producer, Screenwriter |
| Education | Benton Consolidated High School, Illinois State University |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Spouse | Glenne Headly (m. 1982–1988) |
| Children | Amandine Malkovich, Loewy Malkovich |
| Parents | Daniel Leon Malkovich, Joe Anne Malkovich |
| Siblings | Danny Malkovich, Amanda Malkovich, Rebecca Malkovich, Melissa Malkovich |
| Partner | Nicoletta Peyran (1989–) |
| Nicknames | John Gavin Malkovich |
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| IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000518 |
| Awards | Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Silver Bear Award, Obie Award |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, MTV Movie Award for Best Villain, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Independent Spir… |
| Movies | “True West” (1980), “Death of a Salesman”, “A Wedding” (1978), “Places in the Heart” (1984), “Of Mice and Men”, “Empire of the Sun”, “Being John Malkovich” (1999), “Crossbones” (2014) |
| TV Shows | Crossbones |
| Trademark | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Soft mellow voice |
| 2 | Often plays menacing, sadistic villains |
| Title | Salary |
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| In the Line of Fire (1993) | $1,000,000 |
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| 1 | I was sitting in Piccadilly, when a guy came up and asked some directions. So I told him where to go and I went back to reading my book. But he kept saying, ‘Don’t I know your face?’ ‘Aren’t you an actor?’ ‘What have you done?’ And finally I said, ‘Look, why don’t you go wherever it is you’re trying to find’. Which might sound kinda snotty. But, by the 60,000th time, it really starts to be a drag. Those things you lose forever. No one can really warn you they’re going. It’s not the kind of thing anyone could prepare you for. I was an actor for ten years and nobody ever bothered me once. But what can I say? You know – Garbo had a point. |
| 2 | [on the funeral of the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who died at 106 years old] He was an example for everyone, he had his own vision and point of view, he was the only man we thought won’t die, I loved him. |
| 3 | This is what politics is to me: Somebody tells you all the trees on your street have a disease. One side says give them food and water and everything will be fine. One side says chop them down and burn them so they don’t infect another street. That’s politics. And I’m going, Who says they’re diseased? And how does this sickness manifest itself? And is this outside of a natural cycle? And who said this again? And when where they on the street? But we just have people who shout, “Chop it down and burn it” or “Give it food and water,” and there’s your two choices. Sorry, I’m not a believer. |
| 4 | In movies you’re a product. And if I’m a product, I’m a Tabasco sauce. I’m not a sort of shepherd’s pie, and that’s the way it is. |
| 5 | I’m not a Method actor. I don’t believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I’m playing a blind man, I don’t go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don’t go in for that very much, principally because I’d rather make it up. |
| 6 | I like to direct movies, but I don’t like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it’s pretty irritating to get a movie on and you get all that irritation already as a producer. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don’t really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not all to say that I would never do it again, or it would never happen again. But I haven’t read any scripts at all where I’ve felt like, “You know what? It’s probably better if I just do this myself.” I could always think, “Well you know, I think so and so should do this.” And then as a producer, sometimes I’m able to get that person to do it. We occasionally have a project where I wouldn’t mind saying, “I could be someone who could be considered,” but I would never go any further than that. I just haven’t found the thing that made me want to. And films take too long. There’s too much BS, too much nonsense. You know if I want to do a play, I just call the theater, whether it’s here, or in Paris or Mexico or Spain or London or whatever, and say, “I want to do this, are you interested?” They’ll answer the next day. With a movie, it’s all, “Oh, I see this film as blah blah blah.” They don’t know what they’re talking about, they don’t care. I loved doing The Dancer Upstairs (2002), and I like the film, but it also is like a waste of seven years of my life. |
| 7 | [on making Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)] I love doing things like this. I’m not offered them very much, for reasons that remain obscure to me. It’s always fun to do a film with a certain amount of action and a great amount of fantasy. |
| 8 | I think the nicest experience one has being an actor is when you like watching someone you’re working with…Good actors love to watch good acting, and I think a lot of them – oddly enough, far from being jealous of it or threatened by it – actually live for it. Me, I’ve been a director my whole life, so there’s nothing I love more than sitting there with my piehole shut watching great actors transport me somewhere. [2010] |
| 9 | Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I’ve actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. That’ll be a family first and has great meaning for me. |
| 10 | [on the costumes in Secretariat (2010)]: I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you’re struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes. It binds you. But was I conformable wearing the stuff? Sure, why not? |
| 11 | [on turning down the Jimmy Conway role in Goodfellas (1990)] It sort of came at a bad time in my life, when I wasn’t feeling well and didn’t want to think about working. It’s hard to explain why you end up in Eragon (2006) and not Goodfellas (1990). But De Niro is fantastic. |
| 12 | The first acting teacher I had taught me the worst sin was to be boring. When it comes to how I think a character views the world, I’m fairly decisive . But for me, there has to be inherent in the act of presenting that view something which didn’t exist before. Something an audience won’t have seen – commensurate, of course, with the writing. |
| 13 | A lot of our wonderful actors, from Marlon Brando to George C. Scott, found it a shameful occupation and really lost interest in it. But it always interests me, and watching others do it always interests me, and I don’t find it shameful. I mean, as compared to what? |
| 14 | For a long time I played brooding, “James Dean” types. I was kind of relieved when my hair fell out and I didn’t have to do that any more. |
| 15 | Generally you act in movies because you are too lazy to act in theatre, or you can’t, or you want a lot of money, or you want to be really famous. |
| 16 | What we were doing [at Steppenwolf] was better, that’s all. We started out to try and do good work for its own sake. That has nothing to do with theatre in New York. Yeah, they want to do good work once they’re doing it, but basically it’s more to do with where that’ll get them. That’s perfectly natural, but not necessarily acceptable or right. If you did a good play in New York you got a little lead spot on Kojak (1973). That’s not for me. |
| 17 | I probably know a lot more technically than most film actors about lenses and lights and things like that, but basically to be effective I need the sequence of events behind me. I get that in the theatre every night, which I find freeing in a way. |
| 18 | For me, movies are like a quick sketch, a doodle. Theatre is like a painting. It involves more craft. It has more depth, more texture, and it changes every single night because it’s a living, breathing organism. It commands my respect that much more. |
| 19 | I’m very much a typical Midwesterner, and I don’t think the condition is curable. |
| 20 | I’m more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it’s impossible to comprehend. |
| 21 | I love Charlie Sheen. If there was a Charlie Sheen For President committee, I’d be on it. With this movie, I liked the idea that when John Malkovich is in a personal jam, Charlie Sheen is the one who provides the tough love. It seemed to me to be such an invitation to nihilism that we couldn’t resist doing it. — John Malkovich on Charles’ cameo in the film Being John Malkovich (1999). |
| 22 | You focus on how a character views the world. And, if you have talent, you focus on what they do to get what they want, on what they do when they don’t know what they want, on how they look and sound and react. I don’t go out and buy a false nose every time I pick up a script. I don’t lose or gain 40 pounds. But I think about stuff like that. I’ve done a monocle part or two. It just seems to me that monocles and canes are only useful if they help the performance. |
| 23 | I’m not prone to talk much about what I do. But then I never have been. I mean, I don’t think hookers rush home from work and say, “Honey! I had the most incredible hand-job today! |
| 24 | (Acting is) always things about imaginary people, imaginary events, imaginary things. That can make you know that what you’re doing is very trivial. The nature of what it is, remaining, in some way, a child. Sometimes you look at it like an adult and think, ‘What difference does this make to anything?’ But you can say the same thing about banking or journalism or anything in the world … |
| 25 | I don’t think, personally, I’m much like any character I ever played, including John Malkovich (in Being John Malkovich (1999)). I don’t really see the resemblance at all. It’s more a frequency you transmit than something that you fundamentally are. |
| 26 | I don’t think I ever – even to this day – made a conscious decision about acting. |
| 27 | [on fashion] It’s something I always liked. I don’t know where that came from. I always imagine it was from being very fat as a child. I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me – occasionally while striking me – that I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. And I think there’s great truth in that. |
| 28 | It’s ‘Be lucky, be good, and have a good story to tell ‘. Cause a failure is a failure. And, believe me, I’ve had many. It’s like playing baseball. Even the best actors don’t bat 300 all the time. Sometimes, you know, you just strike out. |
| 29 | The other day I was walking down the street in the rural town where we live (in France) and a truck hit me, rather hard, going fairly fast. And he starts to drive off, so I chase after him, reach in the window and grab his steering wheel. And I say, ‘Normally, in a civilized society, when we hit someone with a truck, we might inquire as to their well being.’ So he said, ‘I’m sorry,’ and I said, ‘Great. Try and be a little more careful and that would be fantastic, and so sorry to have troubled you.’ I walk another 30 meters and he pulls up beside me a second time — and asks me if he can have an autograph. |
| 30 | “I did a million things. I worked in an office supply store, I drove a school bus, I painted houses, I worked for a Mexican landscape gardening company, picking out weeds. And generally when I was doing something it somehow took my interest. In fact, it must be a kind of shallowness. When I did office supplies mostly I thought about office supplies, and then when I got on the train I’d think about theatre, and then I would do theatre. But the next morning I would go in and, you know, reorganize the paper clips.” – On menial jobs he held before becoming a successful actor. |
| 31 | “I’ve lived in Europe for the better part of 12 years, and I’ve noticed that one of the big errors Europeans make is to dismiss America as having no culture. That’s an incredible mistake, and whether it’s born of arrogance or neurosis caused by the fact that America is perceived as hugely powerful, it’s wrong. For a century or two, a decent percentage of the major writers, poets, artists, musicians, painters, filmmakers, actors, screenwriters, and dancers have been born in the U.S. Americans have acquitted themselves pretty well in those areas. There’s a great culture there, an enormous culture. I just don’t plain like a lot of it, but it’s OK if other people like it.” (Late 1990’s qoute) |
| 32 | We’re all going to die, so the death penalty should be called the early-death penalty. And the furor about it strikes me as ridiculous. To make criminals feel what they’ve chosen to provoke others to feel would be the ideal penalty, but it’s impossible to do that. Many of them are psychopaths without conscience. People can debate all this as much as they like, but I really don’t care. I’m not a big believer in the judicial system, our laws or our Constitution. All the things Americans rave about as being sacrosanct are to me incredibly deeply flawed. |
| 33 | I was born in the West after World War II in a senselessly wealthy country, and I never really had to struggle. Sure, there were years when I didn’t have a refrigerator or stove, but that’s nothing compared to Rwanda. |
| 34 | Film is about what appears to be. You can’t fake theater, but you can fake anything in movies. You can fake chemistry between people. You can fake sex, love, explosions, special effects, horror… |
| 35 | From the start I was relaxed onstage. It’s home to me. |
| 36 | “I don’t like all of the crap associated with it. If I wanted to run wind sprints, I’d be a sprinter. Or if I wanted to lift weights, I’d be a weight lifter.” – On why he doesn’t like doing research for the characters he plays. |
| 37 | “I’m drawn to a character with a lack of humanity. People give reasons for being cruel or sadistic but I think it is just a lack of humanity and concern for others. I think I’m good at them because I don’t like them. Audiences are attracted to them but I hate them. It’s strange.” – On why he enjoys playing evil characters. |
| 38 | I’ve always felt that if you can’t make money as an actor, you`re either incredibly stupid or tragically unlucky. |
| 39 | I wasn’t really raised to be the type of person to have doubts. |
| 40 | Because I’ve been doing theatre so long, there isn’t a lot for me to learn about theatre acting. But there is an enormous amount for me to learn about movie acting. It’s not that I can’t do it, but it never feels quite right. I almost always feel like a race car on a go-cart track. There’s no place to unwind. Just as you get going, it’s time to go home for the night. |
| 41 | I still don’t know if I made the right decision when I went into acting. I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn’t gone into acting. Mind you, it’s a great life, going around pretending you’re other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it. |
| 42 | I probably have more female friends than any man I’ve ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they’re generally mentally tougher, and they’re better listeners, and they’re more capable of surviving things. And most of the women that I like have a haunted quality – they’re sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves. |
| 43 | I’m not cynical. I’m merely stating a fact. Most filmmakers’ entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That’s why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I’m not cynical. I even go to some of those movies. |
| 44 | [on Dangerous Liaisons (1988)] The movie should appeal to everyone. It’s sleazy, elegant, vicious and mean, and it’s about people doing hideous things to each other. If that weren’t enough, it has a tragic end. What more could people ask for? |
| 45 | I’m not terribly articulate in many ways and particularly when it comes to what I do. And, at the risk of sounding like Holden Caulfield, I don’t know if I would talk about it even if I could. |
| 46 | “I want to be successful. I would like it to be a success with something that doesn’t make me want to vomit all over the screening room after I’ve seen it.” (1980s quote) |
| 47 | [Spike Jonze wanted to borrow photographs from his childhood for Being John Malkovich (1999)] “I gave them my mother’s phone number and told them to tell her that I’m an actor and it was for a film. I don’t think my parents know what I do.” |
| 48 | [on Being John Malkovich (1999)] When I first looked at the script, the title seemed like a one-line joke, but it turned out to be a 100-page joke. |
| Fact | |
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| 1 | He was awarded the 1987 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for “Burn This” at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California. |
| 2 | As of 2014, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Killing Fields (1984), Places in the Heart (1984) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988). |
| 3 | He moved outside Boston, Massachusetts. [October 2008] |
| 4 | Fluent in French, and lived in France for almost 10 years. He left in 2003. |
| 5 | He has worked with 8 directors who have won a Best Director Oscar: Robert Benton, Steven Spielberg, Bernardo Bertolucci, Woody Allen, Robert Zemeckis, Clint Eastwood, and Joel Coen & Ethan Coen. |
| 6 | He turned down the role played by Timothy Dalton in The King’s Whore (1990). |
| 7 | Lost an undisclosed amount of money in the Bernard Madoff scandal. |
| 8 | Good friend of Gérard Depardieu. They worked together on several projects: The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), Les misérables (2000) and Napoléon (2002). |
| 9 | He was nominated for a 1996 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for “The Libertine”, at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 10 | He was nominated for a 1985 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a play for “Coyote Ugly”, at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 11 | He was awarded the 1982 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for “True West”, at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 12 | He was awarded the 1981 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for “Balm in Gilead”, at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 13 | He was nominated for a 1980 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in the play, “Say Goodnight, Gracie”, at the Travel Light Productions Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 14 | He co-owns a restaurant/nightclub in Portugal. [2003] |
| 15 | He dropped out of Crazy People (1990) after around two weeks of filming and was replaced by Dudley Moore. |
| 16 | Offered the role of Green Goblin/Norman Osborn in Spider-Man (2002). |
| 17 | Frequently visits Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia). |
| 18 | His performance as himself in Being John Malkovich (1999) is ranked #90 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. |
| 19 | First actor to win a major award (New York Film Critics) for portraying himself in a movie (non-cameo role). The film was Being John Malkovich (1999). |
| 20 | Attended college with Joan Allen who was occasionally a scene partner of Malkovich’s in their acting classes. Later attended another acting class years with John Mahoney. He encouraged both actors to join the Steppenwolf Theater Company, which they did. |
| 21 | Won a second Village Voice Obie this time for Direction for “Balm in Gilead” in 1985. |
| 22 | Won a Village Voice Obie for his performance in “True West” in 1984. |
| 23 | His favorite films include: Citizen Kane (1941), It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), High Noon (1952), The 400 Blows (1959), The Battle of Algiers (1966), The Conformist (1970) and This Is Spinal Tap (1984). |
| 24 | In 1976, he quit college in order to work at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater. |
| 25 | When he was a teenager, he decided to get his excessive weight under control and lost 70 pounds by eating nothing but Jell-O for four months. |
| 26 | Legend has it that he was told by the head of the Theatre Department at Illinois State University that he would not have a career as an actor. Even though he did not graduate from ISU (he never took the constitution test), the Theatre Department still claims him as an alumnus. On April 4, 2005, he returned to visit the Theatre Department where he was presented with an official diploma for his bachelor’s degree in theatre. |
| 27 | Has developed a great passion for Portugal, where he has filmed some movies recently. He also keeps a house here, as he co-owns a disco in Lisbon. |
| 28 | Children with Nicoletta Peyran: daughter Amandine (b. 1990) and son Lowry (b. 1992). |
| 29 | Parents ran and owned local newspaper in his hometown Benton, Illinois. |
| 30 | His paternal grandparents, Michael “Mike” Malkovich and Goldie Stanisha, were Croatian. His mother had French, German, Scottish, and English ancestry, and his maternal grandparents were Stephen Choisser and Edna Alice Johnson. |
| 31 | Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#70). [1995] |
| 32 | Education: Eastern Illinois University, Illinois State University. |
| 33 | The costume he wore in the Annie Lennox video, “Walking On Broken Glass” was borrowed from the set of Dangerous Liaisons (1988) |
| 34 | Listed as one of twelve “Promising New Actors of 1984” in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 36. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Of Mice and Men | 1992 | Lennie Small | |
| Shadows and Fog | 1991 | Clown | |
| Performance | 1991 | TV Series | Deeley |
| The Object of Beauty | 1991 | Jake | |
| Queens Logic | 1991 | Eliot | |
| The Sheltering Sky | 1990 | Port Moresby | |
| Dangerous Liaisons | 1988 | Vicomte de Valmont | |
| Miles from Home | 1988 | Barry Maxwell | |
| Santabear’s High Flying Adventure | 1987 | TV Short | Santa Claus (voice) |
| Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Basie | |
| The Glass Menagerie | 1987 | Tom Wingfield | |
| Making Mr. Right | 1987 | Dr. Jeff Peters / Ulysses | |
| American Playhouse | 1984-1986 | TV Series | Ben Stark / Lee |
| Eleni | 1985 | Nick | |
| Death of a Salesman | 1985 | TV Movie | Biff Loman |
| The Killing Fields | 1984 | Al Rockoff | |
| Places in the Heart | 1984 | Mr. Will | |
| Say Goodnight, Gracie | 1983 | TV Movie | |
| American Dream | 1981 | TV Series | |
| Word of Honor | 1981 | TV Movie | Gary |
| A Wedding | 1978 | Wedding Guest (uncredited) | |
| Supercon | 2017 | post-production | Sid Newberry |
| Unchained | 2017/II | post-production | |
| Valley of the Gods | 2017 | post-production | Wes Tauros |
| Wilde Wedding | 2017 | post-production | Laurence |
| 100 Years | 2115 | Hero | |
| Unlocked | 2017/I | Bob Hunter | |
| Dominion | 2016/I | Dr. Felton | |
| Deepwater Horizon | 2016 | Vidrine | |
| Zoolander 2 | 2016 | Chazz Spencer | |
| Psychogenic Fugue | 2016 | Short | |
| Eminem: Phenomenal | 2015 | Video short | Mysterious Man |
| Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – Exo Zombies | 2015 | Video Game | Oz (voice) |
| Penguins of Madagascar | 2014 | Dave (voice) | |
| Casanova Variations | 2014 | Giacomo | |
| Crossbones | 2014 | TV Series | Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach |
| Cut Bank | 2014 | Sheriff Vogel | |
| Cesar Chavez | 2014 | Bogdanovich Senior | |
| RED 2 | 2013 | Marvin | |
| Ecstasy | 2013/I | Short | Vinny |
| Educazione siberiana | 2013 | Grandfather Kuzya | |
| Warm Bodies | 2013 | Grigio | |
| As Linhas de Torres Vedras | 2012 | TV Mini-Series | General Wellington |
| Linhas de Wellington | 2012 | Duke of Wellington | |
| Transformers: Dark of the Moon | 2011 | Bruce Brazos | |
| Butterflies | 2011/I | Short | |
| Drunkboat | 2010 | Mort | |
| Cubed | 2010 | TV Series | John Malkovich |
| Secretariat | 2010 | Lucien Laurin | |
| RED | 2010 | Marvin Boggs | |
| Jonah Hex | 2010 | Quentin Turnbull | |
| The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer | 2010 | Video | Jack Unterweger |
| Afterwards | 2008 | Kay | |
| Disgrace | 2008 | Professor David Lurie | |
| Burn After Reading | 2008 | Osborne Cox | |
| Mutant Chronicles | 2008 | Constantine | |
| Changeling | 2008 | Rev. Gustav Briegleb | |
| In Tranzit | 2008 | Pavlov | |
| Gardens of the Night | 2008 | Michael | |
| The Great Buck Howard | 2008 | Buck Howard | |
| Beowulf | 2007 | Unferth | |
| Eragon | 2006 | Galbatorix | |
| Pilots | 2006 | Short | Hotel Clerk |
| The Call | 2006/I | Short | Exorcist – The Priest |
| Klimt | 2006 | Klimt | |
| Art School Confidential | 2006 | Professor Sandiford | |
| Color Me Kubrick | 2005 | Alan Conway | |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | 2005 | Humma Kavula | |
| The Libertine | 2004 | Charles II | |
| Um Filme Falado | 2003 | Comandante John Walesa | |
| Johnny English | 2003 | Pascal Sauvage, the Greedy Frenchman | |
| Napoléon | 2002 | TV Mini-Series | Charles Talleyrand |
| Ripley’s Game | 2002 | Tom Ripley | |
| Hideous Man | 2002 | Short | Narrator |
| The Dancer Upstairs | 2002 | Abimael Guzman (uncredited) | |
| Hotel | 2001 | Omar Jonnson | |
| Knockaround Guys | 2001 | Teddy Deserve | |
| Les âmes fortes | 2001 | Monsieur Numance | |
| Je rentre à la maison | 2001 | John Crawford, Film Director | |
| Les misérables | 2000 | TV Mini-Series | Javert |
| Shadow of the Vampire | 2000 | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | |
| Ladies Room | 1999/II | Roberto | |
| RKO 281 | 1999 | TV Movie | Herman Mankiewicz |
| The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc | 1999 | Charles VII | |
| Being John Malkovich | 1999 | John Horatio Malkovich | |
| Marcel Proust’s Time Regained | 1999 | Le Baron de Charlus | |
| Rounders | 1998 | Teddy KGB | |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | 1998/I | Athos | |
| Con Air | 1997 | Cyrus ‘The Virus’ Grissom | |
| Der Unhold | 1996 | Abel Tiffauges | |
| The Portrait of a Lady | 1996 | Gilbert Osmond | |
| Mulholland Falls | 1996 | General Thomas Timms | |
| Mary Reilly | 1996 | Dr. Henry Jekyll Mr. Edward Hyde | |
| Al di là delle nuvole | 1995 | The Director | |
| The Convent | 1995 | Michael | |
| Heart of Darkness | 1993 | TV Movie | Kurtz |
| In the Line of Fire | 1993 | Mitch Leary | |
| Alive | 1993 | Old Carlitos / Narrator (uncredited) | |
| Jennifer 8 | 1992 | St. Anne |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empress of Serenity | producer pre-production | ||
| Demolition | 2015 | executive producer | |
| Cesar Chavez | 2014 | executive producer | |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | 2012 | producer | |
| Young Adult | 2011 | executive producer | |
| Abel | 2010 | executive producer | |
| Good Canary | 2009 | TV Movie producer | |
| Which Way Home | 2009 | Documentary executive producer | |
| Juno | 2007 | producer | |
| Capturing ‘The Libertine’ | 2006 | Video documentary short producer | |
| Art School Confidential | 2006 | producer | |
| The First Amendment Project: Some Assembly Required | 2004 | TV Movie documentary producer | |
| The Libertine | 2004 | producer | |
| Kill the Poor | 2003 | producer | |
| The Dancer Upstairs | 2002 | producer | |
| Dragans of New York | 2002 | TV Movie producer | |
| How to Draw a Bunny | 2002 | Documentary executive producer | |
| The Loner | 2001 | producer | |
| Ghost World | 2001 | producer | |
| Somewhere Else | 2000 | Short executive producer | |
| The Accidental Tourist | 1988 | executive producer |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Postcard from Istanbul | 2015 | Video short | |
| Hideous Man | 2002 | Short | |
| The Dancer Upstairs | 2002 |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 Years | 2115 | ||
| A Postcard from Istanbul | 2015 | Video short writer | |
| Hideous Man | 2002 | Short |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prozhektorperiskhilton | 2011 | TV Series performer – 1 episode | |
| The Great Buck Howard | 2008 | performer: “What the World Needs Now” | |
| The Sheltering Sky | 1990 | performer: “Oh! Susannah” – uncredited |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Canary | 2009 | TV Movie stage director |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butterfly Kisses | 2017/II | the producers wish to thank | |
| Adaptation. | 2002 | special thanks | |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Legacy of Fear | 1996 | TV Movie special thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talk Stoop with Cat Greenleaf | 2017 | TV Series | Himself |
| Evening Urgant | 2017 | TV Series | Himself |
| Late Night with Seth Meyers | 2017 | TV Series | Himself |
| Beyond the Horizon | 2017 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Captain of the Rig: Peter Berg | 2017 | Video short | Himself |
| Deepwater Surveillance: Behind the Scenes | 2017 | Video short | Himself |
| The Fury of the Rig: Deepwater Horizon | 2017 | Video short | Himself |
| The Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2016 | 2016 | TV Movie | Himself – Winner: Best Director |
| The Jonathan Ross Show | 2016 | TV Series | Himself – guest |
| Zoolander No. 2: Believe in Your Selfie | 2016 | Video short | Himself |
| The Graham Norton Show | 2008-2016 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| CBS This Morning | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
| Re-Sound Beethoven | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Só Visto! | 2013-2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Janela Indiscreta | 2010-2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Made in Hollywood | 2010-2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Today | 2014 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| World Premiere | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Cinema 3 | 1995-2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Días de cine | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
| Le paradoxe de John Malkovich | 2014 | Documentary | John Malkovich |
| Journey to Sundance | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Live with Kelly and Ryan | 2014 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| The Colbert Report | 2014 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| RED 2: Cast and Crew Reunion | 2013 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| TVGN Movie Special: Red 2 | 2013 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Conan | 2013 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 2013 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| The 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards | 2013 | TV Special | Himself – Nominee (credit only) |
| Q with Jian Ghomeshi | 2013 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Noseland | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| Side by Side | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| Avant-premières | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Ce soir (ou jamais!) | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| C à vous | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Charlie Rose | 1999-2011 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Wir sind Österreich | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| 33-y Moskovskiy mezhdunarodnyy kinofestival | 2011 | TV Special | Himself |
| Prozhektorperiskhilton | 2011 | TV Series | Himself – Guest / Performer |
| Harald Schmidt | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
| 100 Jahre Hollywood – Die Carl Laemmle Story | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | 2005-2010 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| In the House with Peter Bart & Peter Guber | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
| Ceremonia de inauguración – 58º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián | 2010 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Mi reino por un caballo | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
| Ànima | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
| Saturday Night | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| Revealed | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
| Quelli che… il calcio | 2010 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Na plovárne | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 2009 Independent Spirit Awards | 2009 | TV Special | Himself |
| La traversée du désir | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| Changeling – Partners in Crime: Bringing Changeling to the Screen | 2009 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Partners in Crime: Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie | 2009 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Making of ‘Mutant Chronicles’ | 2009 | Video documentary | Himself – Constantine |
| Entertainment Tonight | 2008-2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| Saturday Night Live | 1989-2008 | TV Series | Himself – Host Lyle Menendez James Carville … |
| Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies | 2008 | Documentary | Narrator |
| Musik und Meer | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Resumen – 56º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián | 2008 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Up Close with Carrie Keagan | 2007-2008 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Late Show with David Letterman | 1996-2008 | TV Series | Himself – Guest / Himself |
| La nuit des Molières | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| A Hero’s Journey: The Making of Beowulf | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Beowulf: Mapping the Journey | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself (uncredited) |
| Corazón de… | 2005-2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| On n’est pas couché | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| Capturing ‘The Libertine’ | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | 2006 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| New York 360º | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Daily Show | 2003-2006 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Gero von Boehm begegnet… | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Wetten, dass..? | 1990-2006 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Double je | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Don’t Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ | 2005 | Video documentary | Himself |
| John Malkovich: Flipping Uncle Kimono | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Private Life of a Masterpiece | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Shootout | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Toni Rovira y tú | 2004 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| …Amb Manel Fuentes | 2004 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| NY Graham Norton | 2004 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| The AMC Project | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Revealing ‘The Dancer Upstairs’ | 2003 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| V Graham Norton | 2003 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Late Night with Conan O’Brien | 1998-2003 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Rive droite – rive gauche | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
| Les feux de la rampe | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
| Cartaz Cultural | 2003 | TV Series | Himself (2008) |
| Recto verso | 2002-2003 | TV Series | Himself / Himself – Guest |
| Adaptation. | 2002 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Thé ou café | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
| Campus, le magazine de l’écrit | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Ombre et lumière | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Hyper show | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Bravo Profiles | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Big Breakfast | 2001 | TV Series | Himself |
| Con Air: The Destruction of Las Vegas | 2001 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Con Air: View from Above | 2001 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Human Wrongs | 2000 | Video documentary | Himself |
| The Kennedy Center Presents: Speak Truth to Power | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Various |
| 2000 MTV Movie Awards | 2000 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Continuarà… | 2000 | TV Series | Himself |
| Steppenwolf Theatre Company: 25 Years on the Edge | 2000 | Documentary | Himself |
| Oscar 2000 | 2000 | TV Movie | Himself |
| American Arts & Culture Presents John Horatio Malkovich ‘Dance of Despair & Disillusionment’ | 2000 | Video short | Himself (uncredited) |
| Riddle of the Desert Mummies | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| Mundo VIP | 1997-1999 | TV Series | Himself |
| Rounders: Behind-the-Scenes Special | 1998 | Video short | Himself |
| Hollywood Profile | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Cannes Man | 1997 | Himself | |
| Lo + plus | 1997 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Festival international de Cannes | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
| Film ’72 | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
| Chicago on Stage | 1995 | TV Movie | Himself |
| To Make a Film Is to Be Alive | 1995 | Documentary | Himself |
| Nulle part ailleurs | 1995 | TV Series | Himself |
| Zona+ | 1994 | TV Series | Himself (1995) |
| In the Line of Fire: Behind the Scenes with the Secret Service | 1993 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Shooting ‘In the Line of Fire’ | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Late Night with David Letterman | 1987-1992 | TV Series | Himself / Himself – Guest |
| Omnibus | 1990 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Red Hot and Blue | 1990 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Decade | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| CBS This Morning | 1989 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| The China Odyssey: ‘Empire of the Sun’, a Film by Steven Spielberg | 1987 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Working in the Theatre | 1984-1987 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The 38th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1986 | TV Special | Himself – Winner |
| American Masters | 1985 | TV Series documentary | Himself / Biff |
| The 57th Annual Academy Awards | 1985 | TV Special documentary | Himself – Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extra | 2017 | TV Series | Himself |
| Saturday Night Live: Christmas Special | 2014 | TV Special | Various |
| Saturday Night Live: Christmas | 2013 | TV Special | Various (uncredited) |
| Movie Guide | 2013 | TV Series | Marvin Boggs |
| The Graham Norton Show | 2008-2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| Edición Especial Coleccionista | 2012 | TV Series | Vicomte de Valmont |
| MythBusters | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Marvin Boggs |
| Arias with a Twist | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas | 2009 | TV Movie | Himself (uncredited) |
| 2009 World Series of Poker | 2009 | TV Series | Teddy KGB |
| Cinema 3 | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| 1 quart de 3 | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
| Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia | 2007 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| Premio Donostia a Matt Dillon | 2006 | TV Special | Himself |
| Premio Donostia a Max Von Sydow | 2006 | TV Special | Himself |
| Saturday Night Live: The Best of Jon Lovitz | 2005 | TV Special | Lord Edmund (uncredited) |
| Cinema mil | 2005 | TV Series | Himself / Vicomte de Valmont |
| Premio Donostia a Willem Dafoe | 2005 | TV Special | Himself |
| Making of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ | 2005 | Video documentary short | Humma Kavula (uncredited) |
| Cheshmane John Malkovich 1: Viggo Mortensen | 2004 | Himself | |
| The 66th Annual Academy Awards | 1994 | TV Special | Mitch Leary |
| Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary | 1989 | TV Special | Len Tukwilla (uncredited) |
| The 61st Annual Academy Awards | 1989 | TV Special | Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Golden Eye for Lifetime Achievement | Zurich Film Festival | ||
| 2014 | Tribute Award | Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival | ||
| 2013 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best First Feature | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) |
| 2011 | Movies for Grownups Award | AARP Movies for Grownups Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Secretariat (2010) |
| 2011 | Special Prize | Moscow International Film Festival | For an outstanding contribution to the world cinema. | |
| 2011 | CineMerit Award | Munich Film Festival | ||
| 2010 | Emmy | News & Documentary Emmy Awards | Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form | Which Way Home (2009) |
| 2009 | Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | ||
| 2008 | AFI Award | AFI Awards, USA | Movie of the Year | Juno (2007) |
| 2008 | Christopher Award | Christopher Awards | Feature Films | Juno (2007) |
| 2008 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Feature | Juno (2007) |
| 2007 | Capri Legend Award | Capri, Hollywood | ||
| 2005 | Excellence Award | Locarno International Film Festival | ||
| 2001 | Special Award | Camerimage | To an actor for visual valor of work. | |
| 2000 | American Comedy Award | American Comedy Awards, USA | Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Being John Malkovich (1999) |
| 1999 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Being John Malkovich (1999) |
| 1998 | Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award | San Sebastián International Film Festival | ||
| 1993 | Jury “Coup de Chapeau” | Cognac Festival du Film Policier | Jennifer Eight (1992) | |
| 1990 | Sant Jordi | Sant Jordi Awards | Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero) | Dangerous Liaisons (1988) |
| 1986 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | Death of a Salesman (1985) |
| 1985 | BSFC Award | Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Killing Fields (1984) |
| 1985 | NSFC Award | National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA | Best Supporting Actor | Places in the Heart (1984) |
| 1984 | KCFCC Award | Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Places in the Heart (1984) |
| 1984 | NBR Award | National Board of Review, USA | Best Supporting Actor | Places in the Heart (1984) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Picture | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) |
| 2012 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Motion Picture | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) |
| 2011 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Supporting Actor | RED (2010) |
| 2010 | Satellite Award | Satellite Awards | Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical | RED (2010) |
| 2009 | Movies for Grownups Award | AARP Movies for Grownups Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Burn After Reading (2008) |
| 2009 | SDFCS Award | San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Great Buck Howard (2008) |
| 2008 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Cast Ensemble | Burn After Reading (2008) |
| 2008 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Picture | Juno (2007) |
| 2008 | SLFCA Award | St. Louis Film Critics Association, US | Best Supporting Actor | Burn After Reading (2008) |
| 2003 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | Napoléon (2002) |
| 2003 | Stinker Award | The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards | Worst Supporting Actor | Johnny English (2003) |
| 2003 | Stinker Award | The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards | Worst Fake Accent: Male | Johnny English (2003) |
| 2002 | Stinker Award | The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards | Worst Supporting Actor | Knockaround Guys (2001) |
| 2002 | Stinker Award | The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards | Worst Fake Accent: Male | Knockaround Guys (2001) |
| 2002 | Gold Hugo | Chicago International Film Festival | New Directors Competition | The Dancer Upstairs (2002) |
| 2000 | Primetime Emmy | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | RKO 281 (1999) |
| 2000 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Being John Malkovich (1999) |
| 2000 | Chlotrudis Award | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Being John Malkovich (1999) |
| 2000 | Sierra Award | Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Being John Malkovich (1999) |
| 2000 | OFTA Television Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture or Miniseries | RKO 281 (1999) |
| 2000 | OFCS Award | Online Film Critics Society Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Being John Malkovich (1999) |
| 2000 | Actor | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Theatrical Motion Picture | Being John Malkovich (1999) |
| 1999 | Stinker Award | The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards | Worst On-Screen Male Hairstyle | Being John Malkovich (1999) |
| 1999 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Being John Malkovich (1999) |
| 1999 | ACCA | Awards Circuit Community Awards | Best Cast Ensemble | Being John Malkovich (1999) |
| 1998 | Stinker Award | The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards | Worst Supporting Actor | The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) |
| 1995 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Heart of Darkness (1993) |
| 1995 | Actor | Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries | Heart of Darkness (1993) |
| 1994 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | In the Line of Fire (1993) |
| 1994 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | In the Line of Fire (1993) |
| 1994 | BAFTA Film Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | In the Line of Fire (1993) |
| 1994 | Saturn Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | Best Supporting Actor | In the Line of Fire (1993) |
| 1994 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Best Supporting Actor | In the Line of Fire (1993) |
| 1994 | MTV Movie Award | MTV Movie Awards | Best Villain | In the Line of Fire (1993) |
| 1992 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Supporting Male | Queens Logic (1991) |
| 1989 | David | David di Donatello Awards | Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero) | Dangerous Liaisons (1988) |
| 1986 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Death of a Salesman (1985) |
| 1985 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Places in the Heart (1984) |
2nd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | SEFCA Award | Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Being John Malkovich (1999) |
| 1999 | LAFCA Award | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Being John Malkovich (1999) |
| 1984 | LAFCA Award | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Places in the Heart (1984) |
| 1984 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Places in the Heart (1984) |
3rd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best Supporting Actor | In the Line of Fire (1993) |