TheHudson Union Society™ www.hudsonunionsociety.com is where todays leaders come to discuss tomorrows ideas. If you live not too far away from New York City, please join us in person. In 2008 Tommy Lee Jones was nominated for two Oscars. Tommy Lee Jones emerged to become one of the most admired and respected film stars of his generation by winning the Oscar and receiving four Academy Award nominations. An Emmy award win for Lonesome Dove (CBS, 1989) raised his fortunes for good, leading to defining film roles in JFK, The Fugitive and Men in Black. This year Jones found himself the talk of Oscar buzz once again with empathetic performances in No Country For Old Men and In the Valley of Elah, both of which affirmed his status as an actor able to deliver some of the most powerful and nuanced performances of recent memory. He was overshadowed by Sissy Spaceks Oscar-winning performance as country-western singer Loretta Lynn in Coal Miners Daughter. In The Fugitive, Jones played a crafty and relentless US marshal on the hunt for an escaped convict (Harrison Ford) trying to prove his innocence after being convicted of murdering his wife. Come award season, Jones found himself the winner of a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. Then he took the world by storm in Men in Black", which chronicles two alien busters (Jones and Will Smith) in the pan-galactic version of Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) who track down and subdue <b>...</b>
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