The darling of this year's Academy Awards sweepstakes isn't some captivating ingenue, or precocious child star. It's a middle-aged actor from Arkansas with a name that makes him sound like a cast ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If anyone wondered who Billy Bob Thornton was in the mid-1990s, the 1996 psychological drama "Sling Blade" definitely put the actor on the map ...