He is known for his roles in television films such as Bill W. Woods continued to act in supporting roles in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday (1999), Robert Zemeckis' Contact (1997), Clint Eastwood's True Crime and Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999). In 1997, Woods received his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist murderer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, in Rob Reiner's Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Through the 1990s he played character roles in Richard Attenborough's Chaplin (1992), Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995), and Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995). Through the 1980s Woods appeared in films such as David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983), Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and Oliver Stone's Salvador (1986), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. Critic Roger Ebert praised Woods in the film calling him 'a special talent,' and Woods received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance. In 1979, Woods gained acclaim for his leading role as Gregory Powell in the crime thriller The Onion Field. After his film debut in Elia Kazan's The Visitors, he starred in supporting roles on films, including Sydney Pollack's The Way We Were and Arthur Penn's Night Moves (1975). The series went on to receive the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series.

In 1978, Woods made his television breakthrough alongside Meryl Streep playing her husband in the critically acclaimed four-part miniseries Holocaust. In 1972 he won the Theatre World Award for his performance in Moonchildren. In 1972, he appeared in The Trial of the Catonsville Nine alongside Sam Waterston and Michael Moriarty on Broadway. He started his career in minor roles on and off- Broadway. He is known for his work in various film, stage, television and theatre. James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American retired actor and producer.

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