Jon Voight chord with critics and audiences. Because of its controversial themes, the film was released with an X rating and would make history by being the only X-rated feature to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Both Voight and co-star Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor, but lost out to John Wayne in" True Grit." In 1970, Voight appeared in Mike Nichols' adaptation of "Catch-22", and re-teamed with director Paul Williams to star in "The Revolutionary", as a left wing college student struggling with his conscience. Voight next starred in 1972's "Deliverance." Directed by John Boorman, from a script that
Ned Beatty novel, "Streets of Laredo" (1995). He appeared in a 1998 sports-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, "He Got Game". In 1999, Beatty returned to work with "Cookie's Fortune", "Life", and "Spring Forward". In the beginning of the 2000s, he was a member of the original cast of the television police drama reunion film "Homicide: The Movie" (2000), reprising his role of Detective Stanley Bolander. In 2002, he appeared in Peter Hewitt's film "Thunderpants". In 2003, he portrayed a simple sheriff in "Where the Red Fern Grows". Beatty has also had a career as a