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The
GI Film Festival is pleased to announce that Academy
Award-winning actor Robert Duvall has joined the festival
line-up. Mr.
Duvall will present an award to the Army’s “NCO” of
the
Year
during the festival’s congressional reception, to be held
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 and will also attend the
festival’s Friday night world premier screening of
“Brothers at War”
as well as the after-party.
Mr.
Duvall, an Army Veteran and son of a Navy Admiral, has more
than 130 film and television credits, including popular
military films such as The
Great Santini, Gods and Generals, MASH,
and Apocalypse Now.
He has received six Academy Award nominations and was
honored with the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1983
release Tender Mercies.
Other
film credits include: We Own the Night, Lucky You,
Open
Range
, John Q, Days of Thunder, A Civil Action, Gone in 60
Seconds, The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II.
He currently has four films in production.
A
highly accomplished actor of both the big and small screen,
Mr. Duvall has been nominated for four Emmy Awards, winning
the award for “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or
Movie” in 2006 for Broken
Trail. Perhaps
his most popular television role, however, Gus in the
extremely popular mini-series Lonesome
Dove, which ranks as one of the “best part(s) of my
career” and earned him an Emmy nomination.
He has also been nominated for six Golden Globes,
winning the award twice.
In
1992 Duvall formed
Butch
ers Run Films so that he could become more actively involved
in all elements of film development and production.
Films produced by Butchers Run include the highly
acclaimed film The Apostle, Assassination Tango, A Family Thing, and the critically
acclaimed TNT original The
Man Who Captured Eichmann.
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