In that regard, he is one of the most decorated actors of all time.

However, he collected Academy Awards for his role in two all-time great dramas.

It would be more than twenty years before Hackman won another Academy Award.

Gene Hackman as John Herod holds a light up to his cigar while squinting at an off screen foe in The Quick and the Dead

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An edited image of Rami Malek in The Amateur and Hayden Penettiere in Scream VI with the Until Dawn video game background.

Gene Hackman as Little Bill Daggett standing in the street in Unforgiven

Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe looking at a building in Mississippi Burning

The French Connection official poster

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