Gene Hackman

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Hackman was born on January 30, 1930, in San Bernardino, California,{{Cite web |date=2025-03-20 |title=Gene Hackman was born in which San Bernardino hospital? |url=https://www.sbsun.com/2025/03/20/gene-hackman-was-born-in-which-san-bernardino-hospital/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=San Bernardino Sun |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=II |first=Wes Woods |title=Gene Hackman's California connections included San Bernardino, Pasadena |url=https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/california/2025/02/27/oscar-winning-actor-gene-hackman-had-lots-of-california-connections/80699454007/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=The Desert Sun |language=en-US}} to Anna Lyda Elizabeth ({{nee|Gray}}) and Eugene Ezra Hackman.{{Cite news |last=Berkvist |first=Robert |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Gene Hackman, Hollywood's Consummate Everyman, Dies at 95 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/obituaries/gene-hackman-dead.html |access-date=February 28, 2025 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 28, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250228024113/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/obituaries/gene-hackman-dead.html |url-status=live}} He had a brother named Richard. Anna, an actress, painter, and pianist, was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.com/1940-census/gene-hackman-il-85063191|title=Gene Hackman from Danville in 1940 Census District 92-22|work=archives.com|access-date=August 5, 2014|archive-date=August 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808041228/http://www.archives.com/1940-census/gene-hackman-il-85063191|url-status=live}} The family moved frequently before eventually settling in Danville, Illinois, where they lived in the house of Anna's English-born mother, Beatrice.{{cite web |date=May 13, 1904 |title=Anna Lyda Elizabeth Gray – Canada, Births and Baptisms |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2B2-C2B |url-access=subscription |access-date=October 26, 2014 |website=FamilySearch}} Hackman's father operated the printing press for the Commercial-News, a local newspaper. Hackman later stated that he decided to become an actor at the age of 10.{{cite news |title=Gene Hackman: Least Likely To Succeed? |url=https://www.deseret.com/1988/8/18/18775376/gene-hackman-least-likely-to-succeed/ |newspaper=Deseret News |date=August 18, 1988 |access-date=April 12, 2024}} His parents divorced when he was 13 years old, and his father later left the family.{{cite news | last=Norman | first=Michael | title=Hollywood s Uncommon Everyman |newspaper=The New York Times | date=March 19, 1989 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/19/magazine/hollywood-s-uncommon-everyman.html | access-date=July 19, 2010}}{{Cite book | last=Leman | first=Kevin | title=What Your Childhood Memories Say about You: And What You Can Do about It | publisher=Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. | year=2007 | page=[https://archive.org/details/whatyourchildhoo00lema/page/154 154] | isbn=978-1-4143-1186-9 | url=https://archive.org/details/whatyourchildhoo00lema/page/154}}

Hackman spent his sophomore year at Storm Lake High School.{{cite web|title=1945 Storm Lake High Yearbook|url=http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks/Storm-Lake-High-School/137921?page=32|website=classmates.com|access-date=July 28, 2014}} He left home at the age of 16, lied about his age to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps, and served four and a half years as a field radio operator. Hackman was stationed in China (Qingdao and later in Shanghai) as part of Operation Beleaguer. He later stated that part of his role there was destroying Japanese military equipment so that Communist revolutionaries did not capture it. After the Communists conquered the mainland in 1949, he was reassigned to Hawaii and Japan.{{Cite web |last=Vergun |first=David |title=Actor Gene Hackman Served in the Marine Corps in China |date=27 September 2024 |work=www.defense.gov |publisher=U.S. Department of Defense |url=https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/3919688/actor-gene-hackman-served-in-the-marine-corps-in-china/ }} After his discharge in 1951,{{cite web|url= https://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApps?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=357785|title= Hackman, Eugene, Cpl|publisher= |website= marines.togetherweserved.com|access-date= November 14, 2017|archive-date= August 1, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200801021039/https://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApps?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=357785|url-status= live}} Hackman moved to New York City, where he worked at various jobs.Stated on Inside the Actors Studio, 2001 In 1962, his mother died in a fire she had accidentally started while smoking.{{cite web|title=Gene Hackman profile |url=http://www.eonline.com/celebrities/profile/index.jsp?uuid=c0858f3a-5eb8-43b9-a2ef-58ff21dbf25c |publisher=Eonline.com |access-date=August 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029002356/http://www.eonline.com/celebrities/profile/index.jsp?uuid=c0858f3a-5eb8-43b9-a2ef-58ff21dbf25c |archive-date=October 29, 2008}} Hackman began a study of journalism and television production at the University of Illinois under the G.I. Bill but left without graduating and moved back to California.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gene-Hackman |title=Gene Hackman {{!}} Biography, Movies, & Facts |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en |access-date=April 11, 2020}}

{{quote box||align=left|width=25em|quote=Acting was something I wanted to do since I was 10 and saw my first movie, I was so captured by the action guys. Jimmy Cagney was my favorite. Without realizing it, I could see he had tremendous timing and vitality.|source=—Gene Hackman}}

In 1956, Hackman began pursuing an acting career. He joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California, where he befriended another aspiring actor, Dustin Hoffman. Already seen as outsiders by their classmates, Hackman and Hoffman were voted "the least likely to succeed",{{cite book |last1=Shelley |first1=Peter |title=Gene Hackman: The Life and Work |date=2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476670478 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_tt8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA7}}{{rp|p=7}} and Hackman got the lowest score the Pasadena Playhouse had yet given.{{cite news |title=Pasadena Playhouse, a Star Crucible, Reopens |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-05-08-8602020175-story.html |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=September 16, 2018 |first=Luaine |last=Lee |date=May 8, 1986 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116130112/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-05-08-8602020175-story.html |archive-date=November 16, 2018 |url-status=live}} Determined to prove them wrong, Hackman moved to New York City. A 2004 article in Vanity Fair described Hackman, Hoffman, and Robert Duvall as struggling California-born actors and close friends, sharing New York apartments in various two-person combinations in the 1960s.{{cite web |work=Xfinity |title=Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman |access-date=December 31, 2011 |url=http://xfinity.comcast.net:80/slideshow/entertainment-celebroommates/10/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416054245/http://xfinity.comcast.net/slideshow/entertainment-celebroommates/10/ |archive-date=April 16, 2011 |publisher=Comcast |url-status=dead}}{{cite news |title=Robert Duvall, Hollywood's No. 1 Second Lead, Breaks for Starlight |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20067777,00.html |first=Laura |last=Stevenson |magazine=People |access-date=December 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104213721/http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C20067777%2C00.html |archive-date=November 4, 2013 |date=September 5, 1977}}

To support himself between acting jobs, Hackman was working at a Howard Johnson's restaurant{{cite journal |title=Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert Duvall: Three Friends who Went from Rags to Riches |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2004/03/gene-hackman-dustin-hoffman-hollywood |journal=Vanity Fair |access-date=September 16, 2018 |first=Richard |last=Meryman |date=March 2004 |publisher=Condé Nast |archive-date=September 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916130202/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2004/03/gene-hackman-dustin-hoffman-hollywood |url-status=live}} when he encountered an instructor from the Pasadena Playhouse, who said that his job proved that Hackman "wouldn't amount to anything."{{cite journal |title=Vintage Movies: 'The French Connection' |url=http://magnetmagazine.com/2013/08/07/vintage-movies-the-french-connection/ |journal=Magnet |access-date=September 16, 2018 |date=August 7, 2013}} A Marine officer who saw him as a doorman said, "Hackman, you're a sorry son of a bitch." Rejection motivated Hackman, who said:

{{blockquote|It was more psychological warfare, because I wasn't going to let those fuckers get me down. I insisted with myself that I would continue to do whatever it took to get a job. It was like me against them, and in some way, unfortunately, I still feel that way. But I think if you're really interested in acting there is a part of you that relishes the struggle. It's a narcotic in the way that you are trained to do this work and nobody will let you do it, so you're a little bit nuts. You lie to people, you cheat, you do whatever it takes to get an audition, get a job.{{r|Meryman}}}}

Hackman began performing in several Off-Broadway plays, starting with Witness for the Prosecution in 1957 at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport, New York, and including Come to the Palace of Sin in 1963.{{cite web | url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/celebrities/gene-hackman-gateway-playhouse-ke88tbkc | title=Gene Hackman's Long Island connection: He started acting at Bellport's Gateway Playhouse | date=February 28, 2025 }} He got various bit roles, for example, in the film Mad Dog Coll and on multiple television series: Tallahassee 7000, The United States Steel Hour, Route 66, Naked City, The Defenders, The DuPont Show of the Week, East Side/West Side, and Brenner. In 1963, he made his Broadway debut in Children From Their Games, which had only a short run, as did A Rainy Day in Newark. However, Any Wednesday with actress Sandy Dennis was a huge Broadway success in 1964. This opened the door to film work. His first credited role was in Lilith, with Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty in the leading roles.{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmcomment.com/article/interview-gene-hackman/|title=Interview: Gene Hackman|website=Film Comment|first= Beverly|last=Walker|date= November–December 1988|access-date=February 27, 2025}}

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Hackman returned to Broadway in Poor Richard (1964–65) by Jean Kerr, which ran for over a hundred performances. He continued to do television – The Trials of O'Brien, Hawk, and The F.B.I. – and had a small part as Dr. John Whipple in the epic film Hawaii. He had small roles in features like First to Fight (1967), A Covenant with Death (1967), and Banning (1967). Hackman was originally cast as Mr. Robinson in the 1967 Mike Nichols independent romantic comedy film The Graduate, but Nichols fired him three weeks into rehearsal for being "too young" for the role; he was replaced by Murray Hamilton.{{cite magazine | title=The Making of 'The Graduate' | magazine=Vanity Fair | date=February 25, 2008 | url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/03/graduate200803 | access-date=August 21, 2023 | archive-date=January 18, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118045634/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/03/graduate200803 | url-status=live}} Also in 1967, he appeared in an episode of the television series The Invaders entitled "The Spores" and as Buck Barrow in 1967's biographical crime drama Bonnie and Clyde, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.{{Cite web |title=The 40th Academy Awards |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1968 |access-date=February 27, 2025 |website=oscars.org |date=October 4, 2014 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences |archive-date=August 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819135057/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1968 |url-status=live}}

A return to Broadway that same year, The Natural Look, ran for just one performance. Additionally, he performed Off-Broadway in Fragments and The Basement. Hackman was in episodes of Iron Horse ("Leopards Try, But Leopards Can't") and Insight ("Confrontation"). In 1968, he appeared in an episode of I Spy, in the role of "Hunter", in the episode "Happy Birthday... Everybody". That same year, he starred in the CBS Playhouse episode "My Father and My Mother" and the dystopian television film Shadow on the Land.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&pg=PA500 |title=Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors |last=Roberts |first=Jerry |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=500 |isbn=9780810863781 |year=2009 |access-date=February 3, 2017 |via=Google Books}} In 1969, he played a ski coach in Downhill Racer and an astronaut in Marooned. Also that year, he played a member of a barnstorming skydiving team that entertained mostly at county fairs, a film which also inspired many to pursue skydiving and has a cult-like status amongst skydivers as a result: The Gypsy Moths. Hackman supported Jim Brown in two films, The Split (1968) and Riot (1969). Hackman nearly accepted the role of Mike Brady for the TV series The Brady Bunch,{{cite web |title=You'll never watch 'The Brady Bunch' the same way again after reading these 12 facts |url=https://www.metv.com/lists/youll-never-watch-the-brady-bunch-the-same-way-again-after-reading-these-12-facts |work=Me TV |access-date=September 16, 2018 |date=June 9, 2016}} but his agent advised that he decline it in exchange for a more promising role, which he did, but this story is said to have been exaggerated.{{Cite web|url=https://ew.com/books/2019/12/02/brady-bunch-mike-casting-robert-reed-book-excerpt/|title=How Robert Reed came to play 'The Brady Bunch' dad Mike (and who almost got the job instead)|website=EW.com|access-date=February 27, 2025|archive-date=May 24, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230524162926/https://ew.com/books/2019/12/02/brady-bunch-mike-casting-robert-reed-book-excerpt/|url-status=live}}

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Hackman was nominated for a second Oscar for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the drama film I Never Sang for My Father (1970), directed by Gilbert Cates. Hackman acted opposite Melvyn Douglas, where they played father and son who are unable to communicate. Roger Ebert wrote of his performance, "Much of the film is just between the two of them and the characters seem to work so well because Douglas and Hackman respond to each other in every shot; the effect is not of acting, but as if the story were happening right now while we see it."{{cite web|url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-never-sang-for-my-father-1970|title= I Never Sang for My Father review|website= Rogerebert.com|accessdate= March 9, 2025|archive-date= December 27, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201227031302/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/i-never-sang-for-my-father-1970|url-status= live}} He starred in the drama Doctors' Wives (1971) and the western film The Hunting Party (1971). He won his first Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as New York City Police Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the crime drama The French Connection (1971), directed by William Friedkin. This film marked his graduation to stardom. Robert B. Frederick of Variety praised the performances of Hackman and Roy Scheider, writing, "They are very believable as two hard-nosed narcotics officers" who are also "overworked, tired and mean".{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/1971/film/reviews/the-french-connection-2-1200422615/|title= The French Connection review|website= Variety|date= October 6, 1971|accessdate= March 9, 2025|archive-date= June 9, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210609040738/https://variety.com/1971/film/reviews/the-french-connection-2-1200422615/|url-status= live}}

After The French Connection, Hackman starred in ten films (not including his cameo as a blind man in the Mel Brooks-directed satirical horror comedy film Young Frankenstein in 1974) over the next three years, making him the most prolific actor in Hollywood during that time frame. He followed The French Connection with leading roles in the drama Cisco Pike (1972), the action crime thriller Prime Cut (1972), and the disaster film The Poseidon Adventure (1972). He also starred in the road comedy-drama Scarecrow (1973) alongside Al Pacino, which was Hackman's favorite role of his career and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.{{cite news |title=Modest 'Scarecrow' Preps Fresh Field at Gotham|url=https://variety.com/2013/film/news/modest-scarecrow-preps-fresh-field-in-gotham-1200480535/|first=Peter |last=Debruge |magazine=Variety |access-date=December 31, 2024 |date=May 14, 2013}} The following year, he starred as a surveillance expert in the neo-noir mystery thriller The Conversation (1974), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which was nominated for several Oscars and also won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes. That same year, Hackman appeared in what would become one of his most famous comedic roles, as Harold the Blind Man in Young Frankenstein.{{cite web|title=Weekend Top 10|url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2018-08-03/weekend-top-10-aug-3-2018.html|website=Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette|date=August 3, 2018|access-date=September 16, 2018|archive-date=September 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916055938/http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2018-08-03/weekend-top-10-aug-3-2018.html|url-status=live}} Hackman also appeared in the western Zandy's Bride (1974) and the neo-noir film Night Moves (1975) for director Arthur Penn.{{Cite web|title=Zandy's Bride: Full Cast & Crew |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/zandys_bride/cast-and-crew|access-date=February 27, 2025|website=Rotten Tomatoes}}{{Cite web|title=Night Moves: Full Cast & Crew |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/night_moves/cast-and-crew|access-date=February 27, 2025|website=Rotten Tomatoes |archive-date=February 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227201125/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/night_moves/cast-and-crew|url-status=live}}

Hackman played one of Teddy Roosevelt's former Rough Riders in the Western horse-race saga Bite the Bullet (1975).{{Cite web|title=Bite the Bullet: Full Cast & Crew |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bite_the_bullet/cast-and-crew|access-date=February 27, 2025|website=Rotten Tomatoes|archive-date=February 28, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250228015958/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bite_the_bullet/cast-and-crew|url-status=live}} He reprised his Oscar-winning role as Doyle in the sequel French Connection II (1975), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. He co-starred with Burt Reynolds and Liza Minnelli in the musical Lucky Lady (1975), directed by Stanley Donen, a notorious flop. After making the neo-noir thriller The Domino Principle (1977) for Stanley Kramer, Hackman was part of an all-star cast in the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), playing Polish General Stanisław Sosabowski, and was an officer in the French Foreign Legion in March or Die (1977).{{Cite web|title=March or Die: Full Cast & Crew |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/march_or_die/cast-and-crew|access-date=February 27, 2025|website=Rotten Tomatoes |archive-date=February 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227205105/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/march_or_die/cast-and-crew|url-status=live}} Hackman showed a talent for both comedy and the "slow burn" as criminal mastermind Lex Luthor opposite Christopher Reeve in the leading role in the superhero film Superman: The Movie (1978).{{Cite web|title=Superman: The Movie: Full Cast & Crew|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/superman_the_movie/cast-and-crew |access-date=February 27, 2025|website=Rotten Tomatoes|archive-date=February 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227232303/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/superman_the_movie/cast-and-crew|url-status=live}} Ron Pennington of The Hollywood Reporter wrote of his performance, "Hackman plays Lex Luthor, 'the greatest criminal mind of our time,' with an effective light touch, making him humorous but not out-and-out comical."{{cite web|url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/superman-1978-review-1235059378/|title= 'Superman': THR's 1978 Review|website= The Hollywood Reporter|date= December 10, 2021|accessdate= March 9, 2025|archive-date= January 21, 2025|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250121140509/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/superman-1978-review-1235059378/|url-status= live}} He reprised the role for two of its sequels, Superman II (1980) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987).{{Cite web|title=Superman II: Full Cast & Crew |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/superman_ii/cast-and-crew|access-date=February 27, 2025|website=Rotten Tomatoes |archive-date=February 27, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227200249/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/superman_ii/cast-and-crew |url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=Superman IV: The Quest for Peace: Full Cast & Crew |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/superman_iv_the_quest_for_peace/cast-and-crew|access-date=February 27, 2025 |website= Rotten Tomatoes}}

{{Quote box||align=right|width=25em|quote=Gene is someone who is a very intuitive and instinctive actor ... The brilliance of Gene Hackman is that he can look at a scene and he can cut through to what is necessary, and he does it with extraordinary economy – he's the quintessential movie actor. He's never showy ever, but he's always right on.|source=—Alan Parker
director of Mississippi Burning (1988)Gonthier, David F. and O'Brien, Timothy M. The Films of Alan Parker, 1976–2003, McFarland (2015) p. 167}}

Hackman alternated between leading and supporting roles during the 1980s. He appeared opposite Barbra Streisand in All Night Long (1981) and supported Warren Beatty in Reds (1981). He played the lead in Eureka (1983) and a supporting role in Under Fire (1983). Hackman provided the voice of God in Two of a Kind (1983) and starred in Uncommon Valor (1983), Misunderstood (1984), Twice in a Lifetime (1985), Target (1985) for Arthur Penn, and Power (1986). Between 1985 and 1988, he starred in nine films, making him the busiest actor, alongside Steve Guttenberg.{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|date=October 5, 1988|page=1|last=Cohn|first=Lawrence|title=Acting Jobs Steadiest Since Studio Era}} Hackman played a high school basketball coach in Hoosiers (1986), which a 2008 American Film Institute poll named the fourth-greatest sports film of all time.{{cite web |title=MAFFEI: 'Hoosiers' still a classic after 25 years |url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-maffei-hoosiers-still-a-classic-after-25-years-2011feb17-story.html |work=San Diego Union Tribune |date=February 18, 2011 |access-date=August 17, 2018 |archive-date=August 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818052147/http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-maffei-hoosiers-still-a-classic-after-25-years-2011feb17-story.html |url-status=live}} After Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), he also voiced Nuclear Man (who was portrayed by Mark Pillow) and was in No Way Out (1987), Split Decisions (1988), Bat*21 (1988), and Full Moon in Blue Water (1988).

Hackman acted opposite Gena Rowlands in the Woody Allen drama Another Woman (1988).{{Cite web |title=Another Woman: Full Cast & Crew |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/another_woman/cast-and-crew |access-date=February 27, 2025 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227201504/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/another_woman/cast-and-crew |url-status=live}} Hackman starred in the Alan Parker-directed crime drama Mississippi Burning (1988), costarring Willem Dafoe, where they portrayed FBI agents investigating the murder of a civil rights leader. He earned acclaim for the role, with Roger Ebert praising his performance for his subtlety.{{cite web|url= https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mississippi-burning-1988|title= Mississippi Burning review|website= Rogerebert.com|access-date= February 28, 2025|archive-date= April 21, 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160421132742/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mississippi-burning-1988|url-status= live}} He was nominated for a second Academy Award for Best Actor, losing to Dustin Hoffman for Rain Man.{{cite web |title=1989 Oscars |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1989 |website=Oscars |date=October 5, 2014 |access-date=August 17, 2018 |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706095646/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1989 |url-status=live}} After this he appeared in The Package (1989).{{Cite web |title=The Package: Full Cast & Crew |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/package/cast-and-crew |access-date=February 27, 2025 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227215301/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/package/cast-and-crew |url-status=live}} Hackman starred in Loose Cannons (1990) with Dan Aykroyd, and he had a supporting role in Postcards from the Edge (1990). He appeared with Anne Archer in Narrow Margin (1990), a remake of the 1952 film The Narrow Margin. After Class Action (1991) and Company Business (1991), Hackman played the sadistic sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett in the Western Unforgiven, directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples. Hackman had pledged to avoid violent roles, but Eastwood convinced him to take the part, which earned him a second Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actor. The film also won Best Picture.

Hackman returned to Broadway, starring in the 1992 Ariel Dorfman play Death and the Maiden, acting opposite Glenn Close and Richard Dreyfus at the Brooks Atkinson Theater.{{cite web|url= https://playbill.com/production/death-and-the-maiden-brooks-atkinson-theatre-vault-0000008008|title= Death and the Maiden (1992, Broadway)|website= Playbill|access-date= February 28, 2025|archive-date= March 3, 2025|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20250303191120/https://playbill.com/production/death-and-the-maiden-brooks-atkinson-theatre-vault-0000008008|url-status= live}} In 1993, he appeared in Geronimo: An American Legend as Brigadier General George Crook and co-starred with Tom Cruise as a corrupt lawyer in The Firm, a legal thriller based on the John Grisham novel of the same name. Hackman would appear in two other films based on John Grisham novels, playing Sam Cayhall, a Klansman on death row, in The Chamber (1996), and jury consultant Rankin Fitch in Runaway Jury (2003). Other films Hackman appeared in during the 1990s include Wyatt Earp (1994) (as Nicholas Porter Earp, Wyatt Earp{{'}}s father), The Quick and the Dead (1995) opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Russell Crowe, and as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey alongside Denzel Washington in Crimson Tide (1995).{{Cite web |title=Crimson Tide: Full Cast & Crew |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crimson_tide/cast-and-crew |access-date=February 27, 2025 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227221532/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crimson_tide/cast-and-crew |url-status=live}}

Hackman played film producer Harry Zimm alongside John Travolta in the comedy-drama Get Shorty (1995). In 1996, he took a comedic turn as conservative Senator Kevin Keeley in The Birdcage with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.{{cite web |title=The Birdcage at 20 |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/birdcage-20-20-film-article-1.2581258 |website=New York Daily News |access-date=August 17, 2018}} He co-starred with Hugh Grant in Extreme Measures (1996) and reunited with Clint Eastwood in Absolute Power (1997). Hackman did Twilight (1998) with Paul Newman for director Robert Benton, voiced the villain in the animated film Antz (1998), and co-starred with Will Smith in Enemy of the State (1998), his character reminiscent of the one he had portrayed in The Conversation.{{Cite web |title=Enemy of the State: Full Cast & Crew |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/enemy_of_the_state/cast-and-crew |access-date=February 27, 2025 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227212344/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/enemy_of_the_state/cast-and-crew |url-status=live}}

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Hackman co-starred with Morgan Freeman in Under Suspicion (2000), Keanu Reeves in The Replacements (2000), Owen Wilson in Behind Enemy Lines (2001), and Sigourney Weaver in Heartbreakers (2001) and appeared in the David Mamet crime thriller Heist (2001){{cite news |title=Film Review; Forget the Girl and Gold; Look for the Chemistry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/movies/film-review-forget-the-girl-and-gold-look-for-the-chemistry.html |website=The New York Times |date=November 9, 2001 |access-date=September 16, 2018 |last1=Scott |first1=A. O. |archive-date=September 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916055958/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/movies/film-review-forget-the-girl-and-gold-look-for-the-chemistry.html |url-status=live}} as an aging professional thief of considerable skill who is forced into one final job. He made a cameo in The Mexican (2001).{{Cite web |title=The Mexican movie review & film summary (2001) {{!}} Roger Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-mexican-2001 |access-date=February 27, 2025 |website=www.rogerebert.com |language=en-US |archive-date=June 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608001116/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-mexican-2001 |url-status=live}} Hackman gained much critical acclaim{{Cite news |last=Larman |first=Alexander |date=November 16, 2021 |title=Gene Hackman's one-man war on The Royal Tenenbaums |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/gene-hackmans-one-man-war-royal-tenenbaums/ |access-date=February 27, 2025 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235 |archive-date=August 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804141714/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/gene-hackmans-one-man-war-royal-tenenbaums/ |url-status=live}} playing against type as the head of an eccentric family in Wes Anderson's comedy film The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Hackman is utter perfection as the misbegotten paterfamilias, conveying beautifully Royal's underlying decency and love for his family as well as his con-man slickness."{{cite web|url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/royal-tenenbaums-2001-review-935292/|title= 'The Royal Tenenbaums': THR's 2001 Review|website= The Hollywood Reporter|date= October 5, 2016|access-date= February 28, 2024}} For his performance, he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.{{cite web |title=Gene Hackman – Golden Globes |url=https://goldenglobes.com/person/gene-hackman/ |website=Golden Globes |access-date=February 28, 2025 |archive-date=January 8, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250108123514/https://goldenglobes.com/person/gene-hackman/ |url-status=live}}

In 2003, he also starred in another John Grisham legal drama, Runaway Jury, at long last getting to make a picture with his long-time friend Dustin Hoffman.{{cite news |last1=Edelstein |first1=David |title='Who are you calling a star?': Gene Hackman interviewed at home in Santa Fe |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/jan/27/1 |access-date=February 28, 2025 |work=The Guardian |date=January 27, 2002 |archive-date=August 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801034256/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/jan/27/1 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Cameron Diaz and other celebs who have retired from stage and screen |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/movies/2018/04/04/cameron-diaz-and-other-celebs-who-have-retired/480732002/ |website=AZ Central |access-date=August 18, 2018 |archive-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512104624/https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/movies/2018/04/04/cameron-diaz-and-other-celebs-who-have-retired/480732002/ |url-status=live}} In 2004, Hackman appeared alongside Ray Romano in the comedy Welcome to Mooseport, his final film acting role. Hackman was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Golden Globe Awards for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment field" in 2003. Michael Caine and Robin Williams presented him with the award.{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_Nov_14/ai_94221542 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709200148/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_Nov_14/ai_94221542 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 9, 2012 | title = Business Wire, November 14, 2002. Hollywood. 'Gene Hackman to Receive HFPA'S Cecil B. DeMille Award At 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards to be Telecast Live on NBC on Sunday, January 19, 2003' |publisher=Findarticles.com |date= November 14, 2002|access-date=June 17, 2010}}

In July 2004, Hackman gave a rare interview to Larry King, where he announced that he had no future film projects lined up and believed his acting career was over.{{cite web |title=CNN.com Transcripts |url=https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2004-07-07/segment/01 |website=CNN.com |access-date=February 28, 2025 |archive-date=February 28, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250228013928/https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2004-07-07/segment/01 |url-status=live}} In 2008, while promoting his third novel, he confirmed that he had retired from acting.{{cite news|url=http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINN0429553020080605|title=Just a Minute With: Gene Hackman on his retirement|author=Blair, Iain|work=Reuters|date=June 5, 2008|access-date=July 19, 2008|archive-date=April 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413115115/http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINN0429553020080605|url-status=dead}} That year, Hackman made his last televised appearance in Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, as Guy Fieri went to a Santa Fe diner where Hackman was eating.{{cite web|url=https://collider.com/gene-hackman-diners-drive-ins-and-dives-guy-fieri/|title=Gene Hackman's Last On-Screen Appearance Was... Opposite Guy Fieri?!?!|author=Cox, Danny |website=Collider |date=October 7, 2023|access-date=October 13, 2023}} Speaking on his retirement in 2009, Hackman said, "The straw that broke the camel's back was actually a stress test that I took in New York. The doctor advised me that my heart wasn't in the kind of shape that I should be putting it under any stress."{{Cite web|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-did-gene-hackman-quit-acting/#:~:text=In+a+rare+moment+of,putting+it+under+any+stress%E2%80%9D.|title=Why did Gene Hackman quit acting?|date=February 8, 2024|website=faroutmagazine.co.uk|access-date=February 27, 2025|archive-date=November 23, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241123034931/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-did-gene-hackman-quit-acting/#:~:text=In+a+rare+moment+of,putting+it+under+any+stress%E2%80%9D.|url-status=live}} When asked during a GQ magazine interview in 2011 if he would ever come out of retirement to do one more film, he said he might consider it "if I could do it in my own house, maybe, without them disturbing anything and just one or two people."{{cite news|url=https://www.gq.com/story/gene-hackman-gq-june-2011-interview|title=Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance.|first=Michael|last=Hainey|agency=GQ|date=June 1, 2011|access-date=February 25, 2017|archive-date=February 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218191424/http://www.gq.com/story/gene-hackman-gq-june-2011-interview|url-status=live}}

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Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman wrote three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star (1999),{{cite web |title=Hackman's, Bergen's talents shine on film, in books |url=https://bouldercityreview.com/opinion/hackmans-bergens-talents-shine-on-film-in-books/ |newspaper=Bouldercityreview |first=Tanya |last=Vece |date=January 31, 2018 |access-date=September 16, 2018 |archive-date=September 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916060020/https://bouldercityreview.com/opinion/hackmans-bergens-talents-shine-on-film-in-books/ |url-status=live}} a sea adventure of the 19th century; Justice for None (2004),{{cite web |title=Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima': Gene Hackman narrates |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv/tv-guy/os-unknown-flag-raiser-of-iwo-jima-gene-hackman-narrates-20160702-story.html |website=Orlando Sentinel |date=July 2, 2016 |access-date=September 16, 2018 |last1=Boedeker |first1=Hal |archive-date=June 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180602131841/http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv/tv-guy/os-unknown-flag-raiser-of-iwo-jima-gene-hackman-narrates-20160702-story.html |url-status=live}} a Depression-era tale of murder based on a real-life crime in his boyhood town of Danville;{{Cite web |last1=Caro |first1=Mark |last2=Reports |first2=Staff |date=June 6, 2004 |title=It's murder he wrote as Gene Hackman returns to Danville |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2004/06/06/its-murder-he-wrote-as-gene-hackman-returns-to-danville/ |access-date=February 27, 2025 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227153941/https://www.chicagotribune.com/2004/06/06/its-murder-he-wrote-as-gene-hackman-returns-to-danville/ |url-status=live}} and Escape from Andersonville (2008), about a prison escape during the American Civil War.{{cite news |title=Just a Minute With: Gene Hackman on his retirement |url=https://in.reuters.com/article/us-books-hackman/just-a-minute-with-gene-hackman-on-his-retirement-idINN0429553020080605 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214050637/https://in.reuters.com/article/us-books-hackman/just-a-minute-with-gene-hackman-on-his-retirement-idINN0429553020080605 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 14, 2017 |last=Blair |first=Ian |date=June 5, 2008 |access-date=July 19, 2018 |work=Reuters |editor-first=Bob |editor-last=Tourtellotte |editor2-first=Patricia |editor2-last=Reaney}} His first solo effort, a story of love and revenge set in the Old West titled Payback at Morning Peak, was released in 2011.{{cite news |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/payback-at-morning-peak-actor-gene-hackman-revisits-the-west-8212-as-a-writer/ |title='Payback at Morning Peak': Actor Gene Hackman revisits the West – as a writer |date=July 30, 2011 |access-date=August 3, 2018 |first=Douglass K. |last=Daniel |newspaper=The Seattle Times}} His final novel, Pursuit, a police thriller, followed in 2013.{{cite book |title=Amazon.com: Pursuit: 9781451623574 |isbn=1451623577}}

After retiring from acting, Hackman narrated four episodes of the NFL Films sports documentary series America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions in 2007. He later narrated two documentaries related to the United States Marine Corps: The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima (2016)Smithsonian Channel.com: {{Citation|title=Sneak Peek: The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima|url=https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/sneak-peek-the-unknown-flag-raiser-of-iwo-jima/49911|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913031424/https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/sneak-peek-the-unknown-flag-raiser-of-iwo-jima/49911|language=en|access-date=October 31, 2018|archive-date=September 13, 2017|url-status=dead}} and We, the Marines (2017).{{Cite web|last=Barber|first=James|date=December 20, 2018|title='Marine for Life' Gene Hackman Narrates the Story of the USMC|url=https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2018/12/20/marine-life-gene-hackman-narrates-story-usmc.html|access-date=April 19, 2021|website=Military.com|language=en}}

In 1956, Hackman married Faye Maltese (1928–2017),{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-gene-genie-works-his-magic-off-screen-26255780.html |title=The Gene genie works his magic off screen |first=Shane |last=Ross |author-link=Shane Ross |date=August 6, 2000 |access-date=August 24, 2018 |newspaper=Irish Independent |publisher=INM Website |archive-date=August 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824065742/https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-gene-genie-works-his-magic-off-screen-26255780.html |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |date=January 19, 2022 |title=Inside Gene Hackman and Wife Betsy Arakawa's Happy Marriage |url=https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/gene-hackmans-wife-get-to-know-betsy-arakawa/ |access-date=September 26, 2022 |website=Closer Weekly |language=en-US |archive-date=September 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926202822/https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/gene-hackmans-wife-get-to-know-betsy-arakawa/ |url-status=live}} with whom he had one son and two daughters: Christopher Allen, Elizabeth Jean, and Leslie Anne Hackman.{{cite news |first=James |last=Brady |title=In Step with Gene Hackman |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=20011230&id=Rg4wAAAAIBAJ&pg=2998,4869880 |work=Parade |publisher=The Blade |date=December 30, 2001 |access-date=September 28, 2013}} He was often out on location making films while the children were growing up.{{Cite web |date=June 1, 2011 |title=Is Gene Hackman Retired From Acting? GQ Interview June 2011 |url=https://www.gq.com/story/gene-hackman-gq-june-2011-interview |access-date=September 26, 2022 |website=GQ |language=en-US |archive-date=February 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218191424/http://www.gq.com/story/gene-hackman-gq-june-2011-interview |url-status=live}} The couple divorced in 1986, after three decades of marriage.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/19/magazine/hollywood-s-uncommon-everyman.html |title=Hollywood's Uncommon Everyman |last=Norman |first=Michael |date=March 19, 1989 |access-date=August 3, 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=6029 |archive-date=June 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618052947/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/19/magazine/hollywood-s-uncommon-everyman.html |url-status=live}}

On December 1, 1991, Hackman married classical pianist Betsy Arakawa (1959–2025) after they had dated for seven years.{{cite book |last=Shelley |first=Peter |year=2018 |title=Gene Hackman: The Life and Work |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_tt8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA122 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland |page=122 |isbn=978-1-4766-7047-8 |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 2, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303023155/https://books.google.com/books?id=_tt8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA122 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Lidz|first=Franz|title=Gene Hackman's new novel|work=AARP The Magazine|url=http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/arts-leisure/info-09-2011/gene-hackman.html|access-date=January 26, 2021|publisher=AARP|language=en-us|date=September 2011|archive-date=February 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209175057/https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/arts-leisure/info-09-2011/gene-hackman.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/us/betsy-arakawa-wife-gene-hackman-dead.html|title = Betsy Arakawa, a Classical Musician and the Wife of Gene Hackman, Dies at 65|last = Wolfe|first = Jonathan|date = February 27, 2025|access-date = February 27, 2025|newspaper = The New York Times|url-access = limited}} They shared a Santa Fe, New Mexico, home, which Architectural Digest featured in 1990.{{Cite web |date=April 1, 1990 |title=Gene Hackman's Rustic Santa Fe Home |last=Chatfield-Taylor |first=Joan |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gene-hackman-santa-fe-home |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240413153759/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gene-hackman-santa-fe-home| archive-date= April 13, 2024| url-status= live| url-access= subscription |work= Architectural Digest |language=en-US |access-date= February 27, 2025}} At the time, the home blended Southwestern styles and was at the crest of a 12-acre hilltop, with a 360-degree view that stretched to the Jemez, Sangre de Cristo, and Sandia mountains.

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Hackman was a supporter of the Democratic Party and said he was "proud" to be included on Nixon's Enemies List. However, he spoke fondly about Republican president Ronald Reagan.{{cite web |last=Chilton |first=Martin |date=January 26, 2020 |title=Gene Hackman: The tormented, brawling genius of film |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/gene-hackman-90-birthday-french-connection-unforgiven-a9295326.html |access-date=July 6, 2021 |work=The Independent |archive-date=October 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003095621/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/gene-hackman-90-birthday-french-connection-unforgiven-a9295326.html |url-status=live}}

In the late 1970s, Hackman competed in Sports Car Club of America races, driving an open-wheeled Formula Ford.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-13-tm-1434-story.html |title=Pleasures of the Road: Track Starts : Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Perry King and Lorenzo Lamas rap on racing |first=Nikki |last=Finke |author-link=Nikki Finke |date=March 13, 1998 |access-date=August 24, 2018 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807001432/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-13-tm-1434-story.html |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/23/automobiles/on-the-track-movie-stars-as-racecar-drivers-what-s-their-motivation.html |title=On the Track; Movie Stars as Racecar Drivers: What's Their Motivation? |first=Joseph |last=Siano |date=October 23, 2002 |access-date=August 24, 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times |archive-date=August 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824065937/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/23/automobiles/on-the-track-movie-stars-as-racecar-drivers-what-s-their-motivation.html |url-status=live}} In 1980, he won the Long Beach Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race.{{cite news |author1=Smith, Steven Cole |title=Gene Hackman Was the "Most Impressive" Celebrity Driver Bob Bondurant Ever Coached |url=https://www.hagerty.com/media/people/gene-hackman-was-the-most-impressive-celebrity-driver-bob-bondurant-ever-coached/ |work=Hagerty |date=February 27, 2025 |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |access-date=February 28, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227223707/https://www.hagerty.com/media/people/gene-hackman-was-the-most-impressive-celebrity-driver-bob-bondurant-ever-coached/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web| title=Grand Prix of Long Beach 2016 Fan Guide |url=https://gplb.com/app/uploads/2016/10/2016-Fan-Guide-webvF.pdf|date=April 15–17, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170110015227/https://gplb.com/app/uploads/2016/10/2016-Fan-Guide-webvF.pdf |archive-date=January 10, 2017 |website= gplb.com| publisher= Grand Prix of Long Beach|access-date=January 9, 2017}} He also drove a Dan Gurney Team Toyota in the 24 Hours of Daytona Endurance Race in 1983.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/comment/actors-with-driving-ambition/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/comment/actors-with-driving-ambition/ |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Actors with driving ambition |first=Andrew |last=Frankel |date=January 2, 2016 |access-date=August 24, 2018 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}

Hackman was a fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars, an NFL football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, and regularly attended Jaguars games as a guest of former head coach Jack Del Rio.{{cite web |last=Parziale |first=James |date=October 20, 2016 |title=Most famous fan of every NFL team |url=https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/gallery/most-famous-fan-of-every-nfl-team-lebron-james-samuel-l-jackson-michael-phelps-john-mccain-041315 |access-date=August 3, 2018 |work=Fox Sports |publisher=Fox}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|fix-attempted=yes}} Their friendship went back to Del Rio's playing days at the University of Southern California.{{cite web | first= Bart| last= Hubbuch |date=November 29, 2005 |title=Jaguars Notebook: Chatter angers Cardinals |url=http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/112905/jag_20422934.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104105358/http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/112905/jag_20422934.shtml |archive-date=January 4, 2012 |access-date=September 16, 2018 |publisher=Jacksonville.com}}

Hackman was also interested in architecture and design. As of 1990, he had created ten homes, two of which were featured in Architectural Digest. After a period of time, he moved on to another house restoration. "I don't know what's wrong with me," he remarked. "I guess I like the process, and when it's over, it's over."{{Cite web |last=Warga |first=Wayne |date=May 20, 2016 |title=Gene Hackman's House in Montecito, California |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gene-hackman-palm-springs-house |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926195427/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/gene-hackman-palm-springs-house |archive-date=September 26, 2022 |access-date=September 26, 2022 |website=Architectural Digest |language=en-US}} Hackman was an active cyclist well into his 90s.{{cite news |title=Catch 88-Year-Old Gene Hackman Cruising Around Santa Fe on His New E-bike |work=Men's Journal |url=https://www.mensjournal.com/gear/catch-88-year-old-gene-hackman-cruising-around-santa-fe-on-his-new-e-bike/ |access-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127202832/https://www.mensjournal.com/gear/catch-88-year-old-gene-hackman-cruising-around-santa-fe-on-his-new-e-bike/ |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last=Dolak |first=Kevin |date=March 3, 2025 |title=Contradictory Accounts of Gene Hackman's Health in His Final Months Emerge |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/gene-hackman-final-months-details-friends-family-1236153723/ |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303224258/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/gene-hackman-final-months-details-friends-family-1236153723/ |url-status=live}}

In 1990, Hackman underwent an angioplasty.{{cite web |title=Still the Tough Guy |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-16-ca-welkos16-story.html |first=Robert W. |last=Welkos |website=Los Angeles Times |date=December 16, 2001 |access-date=August 17, 2018 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807064930/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-dec-16-ca-welkos16-story.html |url-status=live}} In 2012, Hackman was struck by a pickup truck while he was cycling in the Florida Keys. It was initially reported that he had suffered serious head trauma; however, his publicist stated that his injury was nothing more than "bumps and bruises".{{cite news |date=January 14, 2012 |title=Gene Hackman struck by car while riding bike |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/13/showbiz/hackman-accident/index.html |access-date=August 3, 2018 |work=CNN Entertainment}} Hackman attended an event in Santa Fe in late 2022.{{Cite web |date=May 12, 2022 |title=Rare new photo of retired actor Gene Hackman, 92, delights movie fans |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/gene-hackman-age-photo-b2077188.html|first=Jacob|last=Stolworthy |access-date=September 26, 2022 |website=The Independent |language=En-US}} He was last seen in public in March 2024.{{cite web|url=https://people.com/gene-hackman-wife-betsy-arakawa-last-photos-before-deaths-11687402|title=Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa Seen in Last Photos Taken During Rare Outing Nearly 1 Year Before Their Deaths|website=People Magazine|author=Becca Longmire|date=February 27, 2025}} After his death, autopsy reports revealed Hackman had Alzheimer's disease, which contributed to his death.{{Cite web |last=Stahl |first=Jay |title=Gene Hackman cause of death released |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/03/07/gene-hackman-cause-of-death-wife/80684790007/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250307225254/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/03/07/gene-hackman-cause-of-death-wife/80684790007/ |archive-date=March 7, 2025 |access-date=March 7, 2025 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}

In the final months of his life, Hackman's neighbors in Santa Fe, New Mexico, noticed that his health appeared to be declining, and he and Arakawa ceased communicating with family and friends.{{Cite web |last=Dolak |first=Kevin |date=March 3, 2025 |title=Contradictory Accounts of Gene Hackman's Health in His Final Months Emerge |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/gene-hackman-final-months-details-friends-family-1236153723/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303224258/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/gene-hackman-final-months-details-friends-family-1236153723/ |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |access-date=March 3, 2025 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}} Arakawa – who was Hackman's sole caregiver – was last seen alive at a CVS Pharmacy on February 11, 2025, and returned to their gated community at 5:15 p.m.{{Cite web |last=Jervis |first=Rick |title=A mask, a cane and a frantic dog: Inside the final hours of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/03/09/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-final-hours-hantavirus/82058693007/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}} On February 12, Arakawa called a local private physician and made an appointment for that afternoon, complaining of respiratory issues, but did not show up.{{Cite web |last1=Moots |first1=Sumiko |last2=Romero |first2=Dennis |date=2025-03-17 |title=Calls to medical clinic show Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman's wife, was alive longer than previously believed |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/calls-medical-clinic-betsy-arakawa-gene-hackman-alive-longer-rcna196820 |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=NBC News |language=en-US}} Arakawa died in their home a short time later from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Hackman did not seek help; authorities believe he was unable to comprehend her death due to Alzheimer's disease. Hackman died in the home on February 18, at which point his pacemaker recorded an abnormal rhythm. He died from severe heart disease, complicated by advanced Alzheimer's disease and kidney disease.{{Cite web |date=March 7, 2025 |title=Gene Hackman died of heart disease, his wife died of hantavirus about 1 week prior, authorities say |url=https://www.wyff4.com/article/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-deaths-investigation/64086305 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250307224552/https://www.wyff4.com/article/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-deaths-investigation/64086305 |archive-date=March 7, 2025 |access-date=March 7, 2025 |website=WYFF |language=en}} Hackman was 95.

On February 26, the bodies of Hackman, Arakawa, and one of their dogs, named Zinna,{{Cite web |title=Betsy Hackman's Mom Wants Images of Daughter and Gene's Bodies to Remain Private: 'Respect My Right to Grieve in Peace' |url=https://people.com/gene-hackman-mother-in-law-asks-court-to-block-release-of-footage-of-bodies-11706371 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=People.com |language=en}} were found.{{cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Julia |last2=Watkins |first2=Ali |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Scattered Pills Found Near Body of Hackman's Wife As Inquiry Continues |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/us/gene-hackman-wife-dead-new-mexico.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250228083059/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/us/gene-hackman-wife-dead-new-mexico.html |archive-date=February 28, 2025 |access-date=February 27, 2025 |work=The New York Times}} The other two of the couple's dogs were found alive in the home.{{Cite web |date=March 5, 2025 |title=Gene Hackman cops admit huge crime scene blunder as mystery surrounding actor's death deepens |url=https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity-life/gene-hackman-cops-admit-huge-crime-scene-blunder-as-mystery-surrounding-actors-death-deepens/news-story/b1c62369c3700f77450bb975ee35276d?amp}}{{Cite web |date=March 5, 2025 |title=Gene Hackman's dog was misidentified as other mysteries swirl around actor's death |url=https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman-died-dogs-santa-fe-22d7f6921577f012c87027de8652795d |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250305230652/https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman-died-dogs-santa-fe-22d7f6921577f012c87027de8652795d |archive-date=March 5, 2025 |access-date=March 6, 2025 |website=AP News |language=en}} The discovery was made after maintenance workers, concerned that the couple had not answered the door, called security for help. Security personnel saw the bodies through a window and alerted authorities. Although foul play was not suspected, the deaths were deemed suspicious enough to warrant an investigation.{{cite web |last=Glynn |first=Paul |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Death of Hackman and wife 'suspicious enough' for investigation, police say |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewkkkvkzn9o |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250227225826/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewkkkvkzn9o |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |website=BBC News}}{{Cite web |last1=Montoya Bryan |first1=Susan |last2=Melley |first2=Brian |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog were dead for some time, warrant shows |url=https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman-found-dead-f6c106e92987aeaaab7b35c1b956a5c8 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227114752/https://apnews.com/article/gene-hackman-found-dead-f6c106e92987aeaaab7b35c1b956a5c8 |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |access-date=February 27, 2025 |work=Associated Press |language=en}} Carbon monoxide poisoning was ruled out on February 28.{{cite web |last1=Haworth |first1=Jon |last2=El-Bawab |first2=Nadine |last3=Deliso |first3=Meredith |date=February 28, 2025 |title=Gene Hackman and his wife test negative for carbon monoxide after mysteriously found dead |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/authorities-searching-answers-after-gene-hackman-wife-mysteriously/story?id=119283154 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250228224451/https://abcnews.go.com/US/authorities-searching-answers-after-gene-hackman-wife-mysteriously/story?id=119283154 |archive-date=February 28, 2025 |website=ABC News}} The causes of death were announced at a press conference on March 7.{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Patrick |date=March 7, 2025 |title=Hackman and wife died of natural causes several days apart, officials say |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlyy1rld0ko |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250309181300/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlyy1rld0ko |archive-date=March 9, 2025 |access-date=March 7, 2025 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

Gene Hackman's estate requested the courts block images and videos related to the investigation, such as police body camera footage.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-14 |title=Gene Hackman's estate asks court to block the release of police images and videos |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gene-hackmans-estate-asks-court-block-release-police-images-videos-rcna196391?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us |access-date=2025-03-14 |website=NBC News |language=en}} Hackman's will, created in 1995, listed Arakawa as his sole inheritor; Arakawa's will stated that if they were to die within 90 days of each other, the proceeds would go to charity.{{cite news |last1=Granville |first1=Samantha |title=Hackman's children not named in actor's $80m will |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7985ld2lrro |access-date=18 March 2025 |work=BBC News |date=15 March 2025 |location=Los Angeles}}{{Cite web |date=2025-03-14 |title=Gene Hackman's will leaves his full $80M fortune to late wife and doesn't mention his 3 children |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/14/gene-hackman-will/ |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US |url-access=limited}} Note: {{as of|2025|March|lc=y|post=,}} access to this source is location-restricted.

Numerous members of the film industry paid tribute to Hackman following his death. Clint Eastwood, who directed Hackman in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Absolute Power (1997), wrote in a statement: "There was no finer actor than Gene. Intense and instinctive. Never a false note. He was also a dear friend whom I will miss very much." Francis Ford Coppola, who directed him in The Conversation (1974), wrote: "Gene Hackman [was] a great actor, inspiring and magnificent in his work and complexity. I mourn his loss, and celebrate his existence and contribution."{{cite news |last=Morrow |first=Brendan |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Viola Davis, Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood and more pay tribute to Gene Hackman |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/02/27/gene-hackman-dead-tributes-reaction/80676103007/ |access-date=February 27, 2025 |newspaper=USA Today |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227135931/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/02/27/gene-hackman-dead-tributes-reaction/80676103007/ |url-status=live}} Prince William released a statement, saying "Hackman was a true genius of film who brought each and every character to life with power, authenticity and star quality."{{Cite web |date=2025-02-28 |title=Prince William's tribute to Gene Hackman |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/prince-williams-tribute-to-gene-hackman-20250228-p5lfuj.html |url-access=registration |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}

Morgan Freeman paid tribute to Hackman at the 97th Academy Awards, saying, "Like everyone who ever shared a scene with him, I learned he was a generous performer whose gifts elevated everyone's work" and that he would be "remembered [as someone who did good work] and so much more."{{cite web |last=Moorman |first=Taijuan |last2=Alexander |first2=Bryan |date=March 2, 2025 |title=Morgan Freeman tribute to Gene Hackman at Oscars honors Academy Award-winning actor after death |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2025/03/02/gene-hackman-death-oscars-tribute-morgan-freeman-in-memoriam/80707111007/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250303031908/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2025/03/02/gene-hackman-death-oscars-tribute-morgan-freeman-in-memoriam/80707111007/ |archive-date=March 3, 2025 |accessdate=March 8, 2025 |website=USA Today}} Others who paid tribute include Dustin Hoffman, Glenn Close, Tom Hanks, Viola Davis, Bill Murray, Mel Brooks, Alec Baldwin, Gwyneth Paltrow, Barbra Streisand, Nathan Lane, Josh Brolin, John Cusack, Ben Stiller, Antonio Banderas, Hank Azaria, George Takei, and Jennifer Love Hewitt.Multiple sources:

• {{cite magazine |last=Patton |first=Tess |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Bill Murray Lovingly Remembers Gene Hackman as 'A Little Irritable' but 'Great' While Filming 'The Royal Tenenbaums' |url=https://www.thewrap.com/bill-murray-remembers-gene-hackman-drew-barrymore-show/ |access-date=February 27, 2025 |magazine=TheWrap}}
• {{cite web |last=Garner |first=Glenn |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Dustin Hoffman Compares "Genius" Gene Hackman To Marlon Brando: "A Giant Among Actors" |url=https://deadline.com/2025/02/dustin-hoffman-compares-genius-gene-hackman-marlon-brando-1236304979/ |access-date=February 27, 2025 |website=Deadline Hollywood |archive-date=February 28, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250228042906/https://deadline.com/2025/02/dustin-hoffman-compares-genius-gene-hackman-marlon-brando-1236304979/ |url-status=live}}
• {{cite magazine |last=Russell |first=Shania |date=February 28, 2025 |title=Morgan Freeman, Nathan Lane, Gwyneth Paltrow, and more remember Gene Hackman: 'One of the all time greatest' |url=https://ew.com/morgan-freeman-gwyneth-paltrow-and-more-pay-tribute-to-gene-hackman-11687739 |access-date=February 27, 2025 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227224847/https://ew.com/morgan-freeman-gwyneth-paltrow-and-more-pay-tribute-to-gene-hackman-11687739 |url-status=live}}
• {{cite magazine |last=Andersson |first=Eric |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Nathan Lane, Viola Davis and More Stars React to Gene Hackman's Death: 'He Was One of Our Greatest' |url=https://people.com/nathan-lane-viola-davis-stars-react-gene-hackman-death-11687487 |access-date=February 27, 2025 |magazine=People}}
• {{cite magazine |last=Shafer |first=Ellise |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood and Nathan Lane Lead Tributes to Gene Hackman After Oscar Winner Found Dead Alongside Wife: 'Inspiring and Magnificent in His Work and Complexity' |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/news/gene-hackman-death-reactions-francis-ford-coppola-1236322137/ |access-date=February 27, 2025 |magazine=Variety |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227133949/https://variety.com/2025/film/news/gene-hackman-death-reactions-francis-ford-coppola-1236322137/ |url-status=live}}
• {{cite news |last=Yu |first=Yi-Jin |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Stars share tributes to actor Gene Hackman after his death at 95 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/stars-share-tributes-actor-gene-hackman-after-death/story?id=119245597 |access-date=February 27, 2025 |agency=ABC News |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227163851/https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/stars-share-tributes-actor-gene-hackman-after-death/story?id=119245597 |url-status=live}}
• {{cite news |date=February 27, 2025 |last1=Santaflorentina |first1=Hayley |title=Jennifer Love Hewitt Honors Heartbreakers Costar Gene Hackman After His Death |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/1414052/jennifer-love-hewitt-honors-heartbreakers-costar-gene-hackman-after-his-death |access-date=March 2, 2025 |agency=E!}} The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw wrote that Hackman's death marked the end of American new wave cinema. He described Hackman as "really a star; in fact the star of every scene he was in – that tough, wised-up, intelligent, but unhandsome face perpetually on the verge of coolly unconcerned derision, or creased in a heartbreakingly fatherly, pained smile."{{Cite news |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |date=2025-02-27 |title=Gene Hackman: the star of every scene he was in |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/27/gene-hackman-the-star-of-every-scene-he-was-in |access-date=2025-03-16}}{{Cite news |last=Glynn |first=Paul |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Gene Hackman: Daughters and Clint Eastwood lead tributes to star |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g776e670vo |access-date=March 2, 2025 |publisher=BBC News |archive-date=February 28, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250228232859/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g776e670vo |url-status=live}}

{{Main|List of awards and nominations received by Gene Hackman}}

Hackman received two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and one Screen Actors Guild Award.{{cite web |title=Gene Hackman: Daughters and Clint Eastwood lead tributes to star |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g776e670vo |website=BBC News |access-date=February 28, 2025 |date=February 27, 2025 |archive-date=February 27, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250227223318/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g776e670vo |url-status=live}} He was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following performances:

• 40th Academy Awards (1967): Best Supporting Actor, nomination, Bonnie & Clyde
• 43th Academy Awards (1970): Best Supporting Actor, nomination, I Never Sang for My Father
• 44th Academy Awards (1971): Best Actor, win, The French Connection
• 61st Academy Awards (1988): Best Actor, nomination, Mississippi Burning
• 65th Academy Awards (1992): Best Supporting Actor, win, Unforgiven

Asteroid 55397 Hackman, discovered by Roy Tucker in 2001, was named in his honor. The official {{Minor planet meaning link|55397|naming citation}} was published by the Minor Planet Center on May 18, 2019 ({{small|M.P.C. 114954}}).

• Hackman, Gene, and Daniel Lenihan (1999). Wake of the Perdido Star. New York: Newmarket Press. {{ISBN|978-1-557-04398-6}}. {{OCLC|42027535}}.
• Hackman, Gene, and Daniel Lenihan (2004). Justice for None. New York: St. Martin's Press. {{ISBN|978-0-312-32425-4}}. {{OCLC|54035033}}.
• Hackman, Gene, and Daniel Lenihan (2008). Escape from Andersonville: A Novel of the Civil War. New York: St. Martin's Press. {{ISBN|978-0-312-36373-4}}. {{OCLC|191865890}}.
• Hackman, Gene (2011). Payback at Morning Peak: A Novel of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster. {{ISBN|978-1-451-62356-7}}. {{OCLC|798634411}}.
• Hackman, Gene (2013). Pursuit. New York: Pocket Books. {{ISBN|978-1-451-62357-4}}. {{OCLC|857568111}}.

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