Billy Bob's Filmography

ALL THE PRETTY HORSES (2000)

Movie Quote
ALEJANDRA:  You don't understand.  I didn't know that my father could stop loving me.  I didn't know he could.  Now I know. 

Plot
Young horse-breaker John Grady Cole (played by Matt Damon) comes of age the hard way after his recently widowed mother sells the ranch he had hoped to inherit out from under him.  Yearning for open spaces and a cowboy's life, he leaves Texas with his best friend Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas) to find a new life in Mexico.  There, he finds plenty of horses to tame and a forbidden, doomed love with a wealthy rancher's daughter (played by Penelope Cruz) that eventually gets him thrown in jail.

What Billy Bob Gets To Do
He gets to work with his favorite crew, including cinematographer Barry Markowitz, as well as pays his respects to the westerns of John Ford.  The results, even in the truncated form, are lyrical, melancholy, and beautiful.

Backstory
This bittersweet tale set in the post-WWII vanishing West earned a National Board of Review Citation for Ted Tally's adapted screenplay and a Golden Globe nomination for Marty Stuart's score. Based on the popular novel by Cormac McCarthy, ALL THE PRETTY HORSES stars Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black (young Frank from SLING BLADE), Bruce Dern, Miriam Colon, and Robert Patrick.  It should be noted that this version of the film is not Billy Bob's version, which originally ran some three hours long, but was pared down considerably at Miramax's insistence.  Incidentally, Penelope Cruz named one of her cats Billy Bob in honor of her director.

Awards (for Billy Bob Thornton)
Paris Film Festival (Grand Prix) - 2001 - Nomination

Awards (for ALL THE PRETTY HORSES)
Golden Boot Award (Best of the West) - 2001 - Nomination
Blockbuster Entertainment Award (Favorite Actor, Drama/Romance, Matt Damon) - 2001 - Nomination
Blockbuster Entertainment Award (Favorite Actress, Drama/Romance, Penelope Cruz) - 2001 - Nomination
Golden Globe (Best Original Score, Marty Stuart, Kristin Wilkinson, Larry Paxton) - 2001 - Nomination
Las Vegas Film Critics Society (Sierra Award, Best Picture) - 2000 - Nomination
Las Vegas Film Critics Society (Sierra Award, Best Actor, Matt Damon) - 2000 - Nomination
Las Vegas Film Critics Society (Sierra Award, Best Actor, Matt Damon) - 2000 - Nomination
Las Vegas Film Critics Society (Sierra Award, Best Cinematography, Barry Markowitz) - 2000 - Nomination
Las Vegas Film Critics Society (Sierra Award, Best Score, Daniel Lanois, Marty Stuart) - 2000 - Nomination
Las Vegas Film Critics Society (Sierra Award, Best Screenplay, Adapted, Ted Tally) - 2000 - Nomination
Las Vegas Film Critics Society (Sierra Award, Youth in Film, Lucas Black) - 2000 - Nomination
National Board of Review (NBR Award, Best Screenplay, Ted Tally) - 2000 - Winner
USC Scripter Award (Cormac McCarthy, Ted Tally) - 2001 - Nomination
World Stunt Award (Taurus Award, Best Work with an Animal, Mike Watson, Richard Bucher) - 2001 - Nomination
Young Artist Award (Best Supporting Young Actor, Lucas Black) - 2001 - Nomination 

Relevant Links
IMDb Link
Official Site
Official Sony VHS Page
Official Sony Spanish Subtitled VHS Page
Official Sony DVD Page
Official Sony Spanish Subtitled DVD Page
An Aussie Page
Starpulse Page with plenty o' links
Upcomingmovies.com Page
Sister Site to the Talented Matt Damon
Ain't It Cool News' Harry Knowles Visits the Set - Part I
Ain't It Cool News' Harry Knowles Visits the Set - Part II

Related Merchandise
Marty Stuart's soundtrack (which includes cuts by Daniel Lanois) can be scored (owch!) from Amazon.   Also, Bohlin, the western outfitters, created a special edition belt buckle to commemorate the film, and it was worn by the film's leads.

Will there ever be a director's cut of ALL THE PRETTY HORSES?  "Doubtful," says Billy Bob, who doesn't want to do a director's version without restoring Daniel Lanois' original score, which he describes as the most beautiful film score he has ever heard.