The late Gene Hackman leaves a legacy of cinematic grasping, of striving for more. What's more common—or more American—than that?

Here are 10 Gene Hackman performances we love. They are not the only 10, but they are 10 great ones. Sam Raimi’s 1995 Western “The Quick and the Dead” is bigger than life in every aspect, from the ...

Freeman and Hackman co-starred in 2000’s “Under Suspicion” and in the 1992 Clint Eastwood Western “Unforgiven” — the movie that earned Hackman his second Oscar. He won his first for 1971’s ”The French ...

EW ranks the top 30 Academy Award-winning performances in the Best Actor category, including those from Marlon Brando, Jack ...