{"id":1585461,"date":"2022-08-02T17:31:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T21:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585461"},"modified":"2022-08-02T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T21:32:06","slug":"the-rare-academy-award-winner-who-isnt-afraid-to-call-out-woke-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-rare-academy-award-winner-who-isnt-afraid-to-call-out-woke-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rare Academy Award Winner Who Isn\u2019t Afraid To Call Out Woke Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-rare-academy-award-winner-who-isnt-afraid-to-call-out-woke-hollywood%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585461&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Every time a conservative bemoans Hollywood\u2019s liberal groupthink a few exceptions jump to mind.<\/p>\n<p>What about Tim Allen? Bruce Willis? Kelsey Grammer? Oscar-winner Jon Voight?\u00a0Yes, all four lean to the Right, but Voight\u2019s name matters most of all.<\/p>\n<p>Why?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 83-year-old legend may be the most vocal of any Tinsel Town conservative, and his body of work is comparable to many screen icons, past or present.<\/p>\n<p>But how did Voight rise to the top of not just Hollywood, but the industry\u2019s microscopic community of right-leaning talent?<\/p>\n<p>Voight started his show business career in\u2013 where else?\u2013New York City. The future star studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. He honed his craft under the tutelage of Sanford Meisner, who also worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/02\/04\/theater\/sanford-meisner-a-mentor-who-guided-actors-and-directors-toward-truth-dies-at-91.html\">Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, Gregory Peck and Steve McQueen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The young actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/jon-voight-midnight-cowboy\/\">had confidence, if not swagger,<\/a> at the dawn of his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce I made the decision to go to New York and start school again and learn to act, I was at peace,\u201d he says. \u201cI never had the thought that I was just testing it. I knew what I needed to do and I knew that I wouldn\u2019t give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He made his Broadway debut in 1961 courtesy of \u201cThe Sound of Music,\u201d and spent much of the decade working in both theater and television. He snagged two minor 1967 film roles (\u201cFearless Frank,\u201d and \u201cHour of the Gun\u201d) before landing the part that changed, well, everything.<\/p>\n<p>He teamed up with fellow rising star Dustin Hoffman, fresh from the actor\u2019s bravura turn in 1967\u2019s \u201cThe Graduate,\u201d to play an unlikely duo swallowed whole by the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Sarrazin officially landed the role of Joe Buck in 1969\u2019s \u201cMidnight Cowboy\u201d before a money squabble led the creative team to go with someone else: the 6\u20193\u201d neophyte with presence to burn.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say they made the right choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMidnight Cowboy\u201d snagged an X rating for its frank sexual content, but Voight\u2019s performance as a young man\u2019s attempt at the gigolo game earned him his first Academy Award nomination. The film walked away with the Oscar for Best Picture and, with that, Voight\u2019s Hollywood life officially began.<\/p>\n<p>The 1970s didn\u2019t just cement Voight\u2019s fame. It enhanced it. He bounced from future film classics like 1970s \u201cCatch 22\u201d and 1972\u2019s \u201cDeliverance\u201d to work on the Great White Way. He capped the decade with an Oscar victory for \u201cComing Home,\u201d the 1978 drama about a wounded Vietnam veteran\u2019s romance with the wife of an enlisted man.<\/p>\n<p>Voight kept on working, but over time he expanded his canvas to include supporting roles and the occasional villain. He landed another Best Actor nomination for 1985\u2019s \u201cRunaway Train,\u201d even if the \u201880s weren\u2019t as kind to Voight. He suffered box office disappointments like \u201cLookin\u2019 to Get Out\u201d and \u201cDesert Bloom\u201d during the Reagan era, but his \u201cRunaway Train\u201d nomination kept him top of mind for Hollywood observers.<\/p>\n<p>He opened the 1990s by tackling some small-screen work, including appearances in \u201cReturn to Lonesome Dove\u201d and \u201cThe Rainbow Warrior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His villainous turn in 1997\u2019s \u201cAnaconda\u201d showed a new side of Voight, a scene-stealer who understands how to embrace genre movie-making sans apology. More respectable roles in \u201cHeat\u201d (1995), \u201cThe Rainmaker\u201d (1997) and \u201cRosewood\u201d (1997) ensured he stayed on everyone\u2019s radar.<\/p>\n<p>He entered the new century without missing a professional beat (\u201cZoolander,\u201d \u201cHoles\u201d and \u201cAli,\u201d snagging another Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Howard Cosell).<\/p>\n<p>Some actors slow down over time. Others struggle to find consequential roles worthy of their gifts. Voight shrugged off both of these real-world concerns. His Emmy nominated work in \u201cRay Donovan,\u201d the long-running Showtime series about a Hollywood fixer, gave Voight one of his greatest roles to date.<\/p>\n<p>Playing Mickey Donovan, a character with a thick Beantown accent and an amoral code, he powered the series through seven eventful seasons. Fans loved to loathe Mickey, a deficient father figure who kept trying to connect with his adult children.<\/p>\n<p>Voight even joined Hollywood\u2019s franchise frenzy, snagging sizable roles in series like \u201cNational Treasure,\u201d \u201cTransformers,\u201d \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d and \u201cTomb Raider.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through it all, Voight kept the focus on his beloved craft even when tabloid headlines invaded his complicated ties to daughter Angelina Jolie. The actor\u2019s approach started to change at the dawn of the Obama administration, when Voight decided the time was right to weigh in on political matters.<\/p>\n<p>He opened up about his <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2014\/08\/jon-voight-political-statements-impact-on-emmy-chances-813793\/\">move to the Right around 2007<\/a>, showing vigorous support for Israel and slamming then-President Barack Obama along the way. He later supported Mitt Romney in his unsuccessful quest to make Obama a one-term president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s grown louder, and less uninhibited, since then.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Voight risked everything years later by throwing his full support behind former President Donald Trump, calling him the <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/politics\/jon-voight-argues-trump-greatest-president-since-lincoln\/\">best American leader since Abraham Lincoln<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 he explained why he\u2019s speaking up after decades of focusing solely on his craft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know where I stand, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jon-voight-i-have-to-say-my-piece\/\">I have to say<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time a conservative bemoans Hollywood\u2019s liberal groupthink a few exceptions jump to mind. What about Tim Allen? Bruce Willis? Kelsey Grammer? Oscar-winner Jon Voight?\u00a0Yes, all four lean to the Right, but Voight\u2019s name matters most of all. Why?\u00a0 The 83-year-old legend may be the most vocal of any Tinsel Town conservative, and his body &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1585568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1585568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}