John Hawkes

Born on September 11, 1959

Prolific character actor John Hawkes earned a new level of recognition with his role as Bugsy, the slow-witted fisherman who provides Wolfgang Petersen's The Perfect Storm (2000) with a degree of comic relief. Read Full Biography

Year	Award	Category	Movie	Result
2012	Detroit Film Critics Society	Best Actor	The Sessions	Nominated
2012	Hollywood Foreign Press Association	Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama	The Sessions	Nominated
2012	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Male Lead	The Sessions	Won
2012	Screen Actors Guild	Best Actor	The Sessions	Nominated
2011	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Supporting Male	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Nominated

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Why Isn't John Hawkes A Household Name Yet?
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He's been nominated for an Academy Award and several SAG honors. He's won a host of other high-profile prizes, including an Independent Spirit Award for his chilling performance as a badass meth addict in Winter's Bone. He's been...

'Jackie Brown' Prequel: John Hawkes, Mos Def Team For Elmore Leonard Adaptation,...
by Christopher Rosen
The list of underrated Quentin Tarantino movies starts and ends with "Jackie Brown." Released in 1997, "Brown" was Tarantino's follow-up to the industry changing work he did in "Pulp Fiction," and a decidedly different affair....

John Hawkes: 'Surrogate' Role Left Spine With 'Not Enough Movement'
by Christopher Rosen
John Hawkes is to the Sundance Film Festival what you are to that bar around the corner: dude's a regular. He was in Park City, Utah in 2010 with "Winter's Bone," there in 2011 with "Martha Marcy May Marlene," and, this year,...

10 Ways to Know You've Joined a Cult (At Least in Movies)
by Rick Mele
Already a critical hit thanks to its film festival runs, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' is generating no shortage of buzz these days. The haunting indie drama stars Elizabeth Olsen as Martha, a young woman who struggles to...

John Hawkes Doesn't Want You to Read This Interview
by Mike Ryan
By his own admission, John Hawkes is a private man. The 2010 Oscar nominee doesn't want you knowing too much about him for personal and professional reasons. Unfortunately, once you obtain one of those pesky Academy Award...

About That Time Oscar Nominee John Hawkes Got Into a Fight on the Set of 'Johnny Be...
by Mike Ryan
In 1988, there was a terrible movie released called 'Johnny Be Good,' starring Anthony Michael Hall as a star high school quarterback. If there were any lingering doubt as to how bad 'Johnny Be Good' really is, you should...