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William Hurt won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1985 for his performance in Kiss of the Spider Woman, directed by Hector Babenco. The same role also earned him the Best Male Performance prize at the Cannes Film Festival and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
William Hurt received four Academy Award nominations in total. Three were consecutive nominations for Best Actor in the 1980s, for Kiss of the Spider Woman (which he won), Children of a Lesser God, and Broadcast News. His fourth nomination, for Best Supporting Actor, came in 2006 for A History of Violence.
William Hurt played General Thaddeus Ross in five Marvel Cinematic Universe films: The Incredible Hulk (2008), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black Widow (2021). After Hurt's death, Harrison Ford took over the role.
William Hurt trained at the Juilliard School's Drama Division, where he was part of Group 5, completing his studies there between 1972 and 1976. Before Juilliard, he had graduated with a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in theology from Tufts University in 1972.
In her 2009 autobiography I'll Scream Later, Marlee Matlin described their two-year relationship as involving drug use and physical violence from Hurt, including a rape. When CNN aired the accusations on the 13th of April 2009, Hurt issued a statement the following day acknowledging he apologized for any pain he caused.
William Hurt died on the 13th of March 2022, at his home in Portland, Oregon, from metastatic prostate cancer, with which he had been diagnosed in May 2018. He was 71 years old at the time of his death.