ACTOR
Kevin Costner
- Known for
- Yellowstone (2018), Dances with Wolves (1990), Rumor Has It... (2005), Thirteen Days (2000)
78 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
Kevin Costner is an actor best known for Yellowstone, Dances with Wolves and Rumor Has It....
12 Facts From Kevin Costner's Career
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Throughout his career, Kevin Costner has deliberately avoided making sequels to his films. He is one of the few blockbuster stars who has so far never returned for a sequel.
- #013
Along with Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Richard Attenborough and Robert Redford, Kevin Costner is one of six people who have won an Oscar for "Best Director" despite being known mostly as an actor.
- #032
In 2008, Kevin Costner was inducted into the Irish-American Baseball Hall of Fame.
- #033
Kevin Costner directed three Oscar-nominated performances: Graham Greene, Mary McDonnell and himself, all in Dances with Wolves (1990).
- #039
Kevin Costner was considered for the role of Lester Burnham in American Beauty (1999), but Kevin Spacey was cast instead and won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance.
- #040
Costner's and Ford's casting paths crossed many times before. Harrison Ford turned down the role of Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October (1990), just as Kevin Costner had; Ford made Presumed Innocent (1990) instead, while Costner made the Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves (1990). The Jack Ryan role went to then-character actor Alec Baldwin.
- #045
Kevin Costner has appeared in five films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Big Chill (1983), Field of Dreams (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990), JFK (1991) and Hidden Figures (2016). Dances with Wolves won in the category. He also directed Dances with Wolves, which won Best Picture.
- #046
At one point in the 1990s, the longest Kevin Costner went without a Razzie nomination was the two years between The Bodyguard (1992) and Wyatt Earp (1994). As of 2025, however, he has not been nominated for more than 28 years, most recently in 1997.
- #053
Kevin Costner joins Sylvester Stallone, Prince, Roberto Benigni, William Shatner and Tom Green as the only actors to have directed performances that won themselves the Razzie Award for Worst Actor.
- #054
Along with Delbert Mann, Jerome Robbins, Robert Redford, James L. Brooks and Sam Mendes, Kevin Costner is one of only six people to win the Best Director Oscar for their first directorial effort: Mann for Marty (1955), Robbins for West Side Story (1961) (which he co-directed with Robert Wise), Redford for Ordinary People (1980), Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), Costner for Dances with Wolves (1990) and Mendes for American Beauty (1999).
- #056
On August 11, 2003, Kevin Costner was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
- #072
Kevin Costner and his country rock band Kevin Costner and Modern West performed a concert at the Romania Film Festival in the city of Arad on 3 October 2009.
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Yellowstoneas John Dutton
Bull Durhamas Crash Davis
Dances with Wolvesas Lieutenant Dunbar- The Art of Racing in the Rainas Enzo
- No Way Outas Tom Farrell
- Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1as Hayes Ellison
- McFarland, USAas Jim White
- Wyatt Earpas Wyatt Earp
- Rumor Has It...as Beau Burroughs
- For Love of the Gameas Billy Chapel
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