Remembering Gene Hackman

February 28, 2025 by • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

  • His Oscar-winning work helping the future director of “the scariest movie ever” win his Best Director Oscar and the DGA award.
  • Starring alongside Terri Garr in a couple of classics from 1974.
  • He played the arch nemesis of a caped protagonist in Hollywood’s first comic-book movie. No DGA nomination.  Most comic-book movies don’t receive DGA nominations.  Released in 1978, this was the first of the interplanetary travel movies from 1977 to 1987 on my Star Wars To Predator list to follow Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, a movie with the line “This is important.  This means something.”
  • He reprised his role as a villain in the first sequel to Hollywood’s first comic-book movie. Hollywood’s second comic-book movie.  Again, no DGA nomination.  Just pointing out again that most comic-book movies don’t receive DGA nominations.  Anyway, this sequel was the second biggest summer movie at the box-office in 1981.  But you wouldn’t know that according to an online box-office site.  What they have is a lie that they’ve been publishing for years.  “It’s important, Marion.  Trust me.”  Facts scare those folks, apparently.
  • Starring in a 1986 film scored by Jerry Goldsmith…an interesting year for that film composer. Interesting for religious reasons.
  • Starring with Willem Dafoe in a 1988 film nominated for Best Director…and a DGA nomination as well. 
  • Winning his second Oscar in another Best Picture winner (from 1988 thru 1994…a consistently successful string of Best Picture winners, one of which has a very important scene involving television. Some folks in the media have been persistent over the years with their subjective opinions in trashing that particular Best Picture winner. Facts scare those folks, apparently.)