Tommy Lee Jones belongs to the record of film as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.
The record lists Tommy Lee Jones as American actor and film director (born 1946).
Tommy Lee Jones was born at San Saba in 1946. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Harvard University and Harvard College.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as film actor, film director and film producer.
His name is attached above all to gruff and authoritative film roles. Film is a collaborative art in which individual credit is always contested and occasionally deserved.
Recognition followed: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1994), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1983) and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (1994).
That the work was done from the United States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Tommy Lee Jones is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor — 1994
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie — 1983
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture — 1994
- Educated at Harvard University and Harvard College
- Worked as film actor, film director and film producer
