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James Woods' exceptional career continues to build in power and range with each performance he offers. Woods' recent roles include a chillingly uncompromising Academy Award-nominated portrait of civil rights activist Medgar Evers' assassin, Byron De la Beckwith, in Rob Reiner's 'Ghosts of Mississippi', the comic voice of 'Hades' in Disney's Hercules and an impressive turn opposite Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey in Robert Zemeckis’ 'Contact'. Most recently he starred opposite Denzel Washington in 'John Q'.
His recent work has garnered a shower of honours, including the Golden Satellite Award for his lead performance in the independent feature 'Killer: A Journal of Murder' and Golden Globe nominations for the television movies 'Dirty Pictures', 'The Summer of Ben Tyler' and the feature film 'Ghosts of Mississippi'. He also received a SAG award nomination for 'Dirty Pictures'.
The calibre of his work has attracted a number of the world's finest directors. For Martin Scorsese, he appeared in 'Casino' and 'Kicked in the Head' and for Oliver Stone he starred in 'Nixon' and the film that landed him his first Academy Award nomination, 'Salvador'.
Woods received his first Academy Award nomination and the Independent Film Project's Spirit Award as Best Actor for Oliver Stone's 'Salvador'. During that same year, he received the Golden Globe Award, the Golden Apple Award and an Emmy for his performance in the Hallmark Hall of fame production of 'Promise'. He received another Golden Globe nomination for NBC's 'In Love and War'.
Other film credits include, 'Riding in Cars With Boys', 'Scary Movie 2', 'Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within,' 'The Visitors', 'The Way We Were', 'Once Upon a Time in America', 'Eyewitness', 'The Getaway', 'Videodrome', 'The Hard Way', 'Against All Odds', 'True Believer', 'Any Given Sunday', 'True Crime' and 'The General's Daughter'.
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