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=== Later career: 1990–present === [[File:Robert Duvall and Gregory Dayton.png|thumb|upright|Duvall (right) on the set of ''[[The Man Who Captured Eichmann]]'', 1996]] [[File:2005 National Medal of Arts winners.jpg|thumb|upright=1.13|President [[George W. Bush]] stands with recipients of the 2005 [[National Medal of Arts]], from left: [[Leonard Garment]], [[Louis Auchincloss]], [[Paquito D'Rivera]], [[James DePreist]], [[Tina Ramirez]], Robert Duvall, and [[Ollie Johnston]]]] For ''[[The Godfather Part III]]'' (1990), Duvall declined to reprise the part of Tom Hagen, unless he was paid a salary comparable to [[Al Pacino]]'s. In 2004, Duvall said on ''[[60 Minutes]]'', "if they paid Pacino twice what they paid me, that's fine, but not three or four times, which is what they did."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-duvall-does-the-tango-06-01-2004/|title=Robert Duvall Does The Tango|publisher=cbcnews.com|date=January 6, 2004|access-date=December 28, 2019|archive-date=December 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228010634/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-duvall-does-the-tango-06-01-2004/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1992, Duvall founded the production company Butcher's Run Films.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Robert Duvall| work = NEA| access-date = May 9, 2019| date = May 30, 2013| url = https://www.arts.gov/honors/medals/robert-duvall| archive-date = May 9, 2019| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190509142221/https://www.arts.gov/honors/medals/robert-duvall| url-status = live}}</ref> Duvall has maintained a busy film career, sometimes appearing in as many as four in one year. He received Oscar nominations for his portrayals of [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] preacher Euliss "Sonny" Dewey in ''[[The Apostle]]'' (1997)—a film he also wrote and directed—and lawyer Jerome Facher in ''[[A Civil Action (film)|A Civil Action]]'' (1998). He directed ''[[Assassination Tango]]'' (2002), a thriller about one of his favorite hobbies, [[tango (dance)|tango]]. He portrayed General [[Robert E. Lee]] in ''[[Gods and Generals (film)|Gods and Generals]]'' in 2003. Other roles during this period that displayed the actor's wide range included that of a crew chief in ''[[Days of Thunder]]'' (1990), the father of an upper-class Southern family in ''[[Rambling Rose (film)|Rambling Rose]]'' (1991), Joseph Pulitzer a newspaper publisher in the Disney musical'' [[Newsies]]'' (1992), a retiring cop in ''[[Falling Down]]'' (1993), a Hispanic barber in ''[[Wrestling Ernest Hemingway]]'' (1993), a New York tabloid editor in ''[[The Paper (film)|The Paper]]'' (1994), a rural doctor in ''[[Phenomenon (film)|Phenomenon]]'' (1996), a father who owns a jumper horse farm in ''[[Something to Talk About (film)|Something to Talk About]]'' (1995), an abusive father in 1996's ''[[Sling Blade]]'', and an astronaut in ''[[Deep Impact (film)|Deep Impact]]'' (1998). He continued his film roles by appearing as a mechanic in ''[[Gone in 60 Seconds (2000 film)|Gone in 60 Seconds]]'' (2000), a soccer coach in ''[[A Shot at Glory]]'' (2000), a scientist in ''[[The 6th Day]]'' (2000), a police officer in ''[[John Q.]]'' (2002), a trail boss in ''[[Open Range (2003 film)|Open Range]]'' (2003), an old free spirit in ''[[Secondhand Lions]]'' (2003), another soccer coach in the comedy ''[[Kicking & Screaming (2005 film)|Kicking & Screaming]]'' (2005), a Las Vegas poker champion in ''[[Lucky You (film)|Lucky You]]'' (2007), a [[New York City police]] chief in ''[[We Own the Night (film)|We Own the Night]]'' (2007), the father of a dysfunctional family in ''[[Four Christmases]]'' (2008), a man who throws his own funeral party while still alive in ''[[Get Low (film)|Get Low]]'' (2010), and a retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who owns a shooting range in ''[[Jack Reacher (film)|Jack Reacher]]'' (2012). He has his own star on the [[St. Louis Walk of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/?view=achievement|title=St. Louis Walk of Fame Inductees|last=St. Louis Walk of Fame|publisher=stlouiswalkoffame.org|access-date=April 25, 2013|archive-date=October 31, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031162946/http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/?view=achievement|url-status=dead}}</ref> Duvall has periodically worked in television from the 1990s on. He won a Golden Globe Award and garnered an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Soviet Premier [[Joseph Stalin]] in the 1992 television film ''[[Stalin (1992 film)|Stalin]]''. He was nominated for an Emmy again in 1997 for portraying [[Adolf Eichmann]] in ''[[The Man Who Captured Eichmann]]''. In 2006, he won an Emmy for the role of Prentice "Print" Ritter in the [[revisionist Western]] miniseries ''[[Broken Trail]]''. In 2005, Duvall was awarded a [[National Medal of Arts]] by President [[George W. Bush]] at the [[White House]].<ref>[https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/11/images/20051110-2_d-0221-1-515h.html "Home > News & Policies > November 2005."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210015547/https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/11/images/20051110-2_d-0221-1-515h.html |date=December 10, 2017 }} George W. Bush White House Archives. November 10, 2005.</ref> In 2014, he starred in ''[[The Judge (2014 film)|The Judge]]'' alongside [[Robert Downey Jr.]] While the movie itself received mixed reviews,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_judge_2014/|title=The Judge (2014)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=January 15, 2015|archive-date=October 27, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027191451/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_judge_2014/|url-status=live}}</ref> Duvall's performance was praised. He was nominated for a Golden Globe, [[Screen Actors Guild]], and Academy Award for his supporting role. In 2015, at age 84, Duvall became the oldest actor ever nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]] for his role in the film ''The Judge'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/oscars-robert-duvall-becomes-oldest-supporting-actor-nominee-050005183.html|title=Oscars: Robert Duvall Becomes Oldest Supporting Actor Nominee Ever|date=January 15, 2015|work=Yahoo News|access-date=January 15, 2017|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305002246/http://news.yahoo.com/oscars-robert-duvall-becomes-oldest-supporting-actor-nominee-050005183.html|url-status=live}}</ref> a record that has since been surpassed by [[Christopher Plummer]]. In 2018, Duvall appeared in the [[Steve McQueen (director)|Steve McQueen]]-directed heist thriller ''[[Widows (2018 film)|Widows]]'' as a corrupt power broker. The film earned critical acclaim. In 2022, he appeared in the [[Netflix]] films ''[[Hustle (2022 film)|Hustle]]'' and ''[[The Pale Blue Eye]]''.
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