1968
Academy Awards
Actor in a Supporting Role
George Kennedy
Actor
Paul Newman
Music (Original Music Score)
Lalo Schifrin
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)
Donn Pearce, Frank R. Pierson

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
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1968
Actor in a Supporting Role
George Kennedy
Actor
Paul Newman
Music (Original Music Score)
Lalo Schifrin
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium)
Donn Pearce, Frank R. Pierson
1968
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Paul Newman
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
George Kennedy
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