How much true crime is on Donald Sutherland's c.v.?
the true crime that's worth your time
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When the great Donald Sutherland passed away last week, I got some very surprising (and displeasing) news from Bluesky, to wit: Sutherland never got nominated for an Oscar. Not "never won"; never even nominated, despite a six-decade career with a number of acknowledged classics…including JFK, which, yes, is on the one hand deranged but on the other still extremely watchable, and part of that is the sober believability of Sutherland's X.
The paucity of awards on his résumé generally made it hard for me to guess what Sutherland's Best Evidence True-Crime Résumé Percentage specifically might look like, especially given the even two hundred listings on his IMDb page. As I always do, I guessed a number before combing through the "subject"'s c.v., and my guess, pre-process, was 9 percent.
I hadn't even gotten into the 1970s before I started feeling like I'd wildly overbid; let's get into it and find out how badly/in which direction I missed!