Best Actor1968 Film Fan Awards40th Academy Awards
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Best Actor Nominee

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Ceremony Year: 1968Category: Best ActorReleased: 1967
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Paul Newman— Paul Newman
Synopsis / Overview

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

Historical Academy Record
ACTOR — 40th Academy Awards (1968)

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