Sam Shepard
- Tesla
2020 In Memory Of
- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 The Writer
- Never Here
2017 Paul Stark
- Midnight Special
2016 Calvin Meyer
- In Dubious Battle
2016 Mr. Anderson
- Buried Child
2016 Writer
- True West
2016 Writer
- Ithaca
2015 Willie Grogan
- Cold in July
2014 Russell
- Mud
2013 Tom
- August: Osage County
2013 Beverly Weston
- Out of the Furnace
2013 Gerald 'Red' Baze
- Savannah
2013 Mr. Stubbs
- The Assassination of President Kennedy
2013 Acting Double
- Killing Them Softly
2012 Dillon
- Safe House
2012 Harlan Whitford
- Darling Companion
2012 Sheriff Morris
- Blackthorn
2011 James Blackthorn
- Inhale
2010 James Harrison
- Fair Game
2010 Sam Plame
- Brothers
2009 Hank Cahill
- Felon
2008 Gordon
- The Accidental Husband
2008 Wilder
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 Frank James
- Ruffian
2007 Frank Whiteley
- The Return
2006 Ed Mills
- Bandidas
2006 Bill Buck
- Charlotte's Web
2006 Narrator (voice)
- Walker Payne
2006 Syrus
- Stealth
2005 George Cummings
- Don't Come Knocking
2005 Writer
- The Notebook
2004 Frank Calhoun
- See You in My Dreams
2004 Writer
- Blind Horizon
2003 Sheriff Jack Kolb
- Leo
2002 Vic
- True West
2002 Writer
- Black Hawk Down
2001 Garrison
- The Pledge
2001 Eric Pollack
- Swordfish
2001 Senator Reisman
- Shot in the Heart
2001 Frank Gilmore, Sr.
- After the Harvest
2001 Caleb Gare
- Hamlet
2000 Ghost
- All the Pretty Horses
2000 J.C. Franklin
- Kurosawa
2000 Narrator (voice)
- One Kill
2000 Maj. Nelson Gray
- Purgatory
1999 Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock
- Dash and Lilly
1999 Dashiell Hammett
- Snow Falling on Cedars
1999 Arthur Chambers
- Simpatico
1999 Theatre Play
- Curtain Call
1998 Will Dodge
- The Only Thrill
1997 Reece McHenry
- Lily Dale
1996 Pete Davenport
- The Good Old Boys
1995 Tarnell
- Safe Passage
1994 Patrick
- Silent Tongue
1994 Director
- Curse of the Starving Class
1994 Writer
- The Pelican Brief
1993 Thomas Callahan
- Thunderheart
1992 Frank Coutelle
- Voyager
1991 Walter Faber
- Defenseless
1991 Det. Beutel
- Bright Angel
1990 Jack Russell
- Steel Magnolias
1989 Spud Jones
- MaMa's Pushcart
1988
- Far North
1988 Director
- Baby Boom
1987 Dr. Jeff Cooper
- Crimes of the Heart
1986 Doc Porter
- Fool for Love
1985 Screenplay
- Country
1984 Gil Ivy
- Paris, Texas
1984 Writer
- True West
1984 Writer
- The Right Stuff
1983 Chuck Yeager
- Frances
1982 Harry York
- Tongues
1982 Writer
- Raggedy Man
1981 Bailey
- Savage/Love
1981 Writer
- Resurrection
1980 Cal
- Days of Heaven
1978 The Farmer
- Renaldo and Clara
1978 Writer
- Oh! Calcutta!
1972 Writer
- Brand X
1970
- Zabriskie Point
1970 Screenplay
- Me and My Brother
1969 Writer
- Ages of the Moon
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