Tom Berenger 1980s, including "The Big Chill" (1983), " Eddie and the Cruisers" (1983), "Platoon" (1986), "Someone to Watch Over Me" (1987), and "Major League" (1989). In 1986, he received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Staff Sergeant Barnes in "Platoon" (this performance won him a Golden Globe Award for "Best Supporting Actor"). A role for which he has become well known for is Thomas Beckett, the main character in the mid-1990s film "Sniper" (which would later be followed by four sequels, featuring Berenger in the starring role for three). Other notable films from that period in which he was
Apollo 13 starring Tom Hanks as Lovell, Bill Paxton as Haise, Kevin Bacon as Swigert, Gary Sinise as Mattingly, Ed Harris as flight director Gene Kranz, and Kathleen Quinlan as Marilyn Lovell. James Lovell, Eugene Kranz, and other principals have stated that this film depicted the events of the mission with reasonable accuracy, given that some dramatic license was taken. For example, the film changes the tense of Lovell's famous follow-up to Swigert's original words from, "Houston, we've had a problem", to "Houston, we "have" a problem". The film was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Harris)