Arthur Penn’s genre-shattering blend of outlaw romance, countercultural satire, and shock-violence earned Gene Hackman his first Oscar nomination.

Gene Hackman won his first Oscar for his now-iconic turn as Popeye Doyle, an obsessive narcotics detective barrelling through the city in pursuit of a heroin shipment.

This portrait of L.A. burnout follows a washed-up musician (Kris Kristofferson) coerced into one last drug deal by a desperate narcotics cop, played with twitchy menace and tragic weariness by Gene Hackman.

Part religious parable, part disaster movie, The Poseidon Adventure finds Gene Hackman’s fists-first preacher leading survivors through capsized wreckage in a whirling spectacle of Oscar-winning effects.

A wounded, boozy odyssey through post-Vietnam America, Jerry Schatzberg’s Palme d’Or winner pairs Gene Hackman and Al Pacino as two drifters bound for Pittsburgh with dreams of opening a car wash.

At the height of his stardom, Gene Hackman turned inward for one of his most complex roles: Harry Caul, a reclusive surveillance expert hired to record a seemingly innocuous conversation that begins to unravel him.

“Cigars!”

As Harry Moseby, a washed-up football player turned L.A. private eye, Gene Hackman gives one of his most piercing performances—combative, searching, quietly unraveling.

Eureka is a visionary descent into frontier capitalism and psychological unraveling—anchored at every turn by Gene Hackman’s haunted performance.

Few sports films hit with the clarity, grit, and emotional lift of Hoosiers, in which Gene Hackman brings flinty, lived-in authority to a disgraced coach seeking a second act in 1950s Indiana.

Too often overlooked in both Hackman’s and Allen’s filmographies, Another Woman is a taut, introspective chamber piece with a devastating emotional undertow.

Gene Hackman is ferocious as a former small-town sheriff turned FBI agent in Alan Parker’s blistering civil rights thriller loosely inspired by the 1964 murders of three activists in Mississippi.

Winner of four Academy Awards including best supporting actor for Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood’s masterwork reloaded the Western for a new era and gave Hackman one of his most emblematic roles.

Gene Hackman is brilliant as a corrupted senior partner whose conscience quietly frays beneath a smooth, assured surface in Sydney Pollack’s compulsively watchable legal thriller.

Gene Hackman is all bark, bite, and brinkmanship as a veteran captain facing off against Denzel Washington’s principled XO in arguably the last great showdown of the star-powered military thriller era.

Featuring Gene Hackman in a sly, slippery turn as a man with too much to lose, Twilight is a slow-burn sunset noir—gorgeous, grown-up, and quietly devastating.

As clever as it is cool, this understated yet gripping thriller offers a final showcase for Gene Hackman’s grizzled charisma and David Mamet’s sharp wit.

Gene Hackman is riotously charming and unmistakably human in Wes Anderson’s lovingly etched comedy, one of the defining films of 21st-century American cinema.