Robert Duvall In 1984, the actor won his maiden Academy Award for essaying a washed-up, alcoholic musician named Mac Sledge in the drama film Tender Mercies (1983). Significant film credits in recent times include the drama Crazy Heart (2009), the action thriller Jack Reacher (2012), the legal drama The Judge (2014) which earned him his seventh Oscar nomination, and the heist movie Widows (2018).