Deliverance for Best Country Instrumental Performance. The film was selected by "The New York Times" as one of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made", while the viewers of Channel 4 in the United Kingdom voted it #45 on a list of "The 100 Greatest Films". Reynolds later called it "the best film I've ever been in". However, he stated that the rape scene went "too far". Deliverance Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts. The
Ned Beatty was cast by Richard Donner to portray Lex Luthor's inept henchman Otis in "Superman: The Movie" (1978), as he would in the 1980 sequel, where we see his character being left behind in prison. He received a second nomination for Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for the television series "Friendly Fire" (1979). In 1979, he was seen in "Wise Blood", directed by John Huston, and "1941", directed by Steven Spielberg. In 1980, Beatty appeared in Ronald Neame's 1980 American film "Hopscotch" (1980) with Walter Matthau. In 1981, Beatty appeared in the comedy/science fiction