tender mercies

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Written by Horton Foote — an ongoing collaborator of Duvall’s going back to the actor’s film debut in “To Kill a Mockingbird” — “Tender Mercies” has a stripped-bare quality, a simplicity and directness that only places its complex emotions in stronger relief.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet as he proved in his heartbreakingly sensitive, Oscar-winning turn as a slowly self-healing alcoholic in “Tender Mercies” in 1983, Mr. Duvall could command the screen even when he wasn’t doing much of anything except trying to be a good man.

From The Wall Street Journal

Referring to the author of “Tender Mercies,” he said: “You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, a lot of people from New York don’t know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Duvall won his Academy Award in 1983 for playing a washed-up country singer in "Tender Mercies."

From Barron's

Nominated seven times for an Academy Award, Duvall won lead actor honors in 1983 for his role as Mac Sledge, a broken-down country singer in the film “Tender Mercies.”

From Los Angeles Times