Bacon won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for his role. [12] As the executive producer of Wild Things (1998), Bacon reserved a supporting role for himself and went on to star in Stir of Echoes (1999), directed by David Koepp.

[7]​ Recibió su primera nominación al Globo de Oro al mejor actor de reparto con The River Wild (1994) con Meryl Streep; participó en Homicidio en primer grado (Murder in the First en inglés) (1995), con Christian Slater y Gary Oldman, obteniendo su primera nominación al Premio del Sindicato de Actores al mejor actor de reparto y ese mismo año cosechó un nuevo éxito con Apollo 13 (1995), junto a Tom Hanks y Ed Harris y por la que ganó el Premio del Sindicato de Actores al mejor reparto y que recaudó 355 millones de dólares en todo el planeta.

[9]​, En 1998 protagonizó y produjo (como productor ejecutivo) el thriller erótico Wild Things (1998) junto a Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell y Denise Richards. "[10] Bacon and Sedgwick have starred together in Pyrates, Murder in the First, The Woodsman, and Loverboy. The experience solidified Bacon's passion for the arts.[6][7]. The measure of proximity to Bacon has been mathematically formalized as the Bacon number and can be referenced at websites including Oracle of Bacon, which is in turn based upon Internet Movie Database data.

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[17] [12] Richard Corliss of TIME likened Footloose to the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland musicals, commenting that the film includes "motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement, and Bible Belt vigilantism.

In 2012, Google added a feature to their search engine, whereby searching for an actor's name followed by the words "Bacon Number" will show the ways in which that actor is connected to Kevin Bacon. Tienen dos hijos, Travis Bacon Sedgwick (nacido el 23 de junio de 1989 en Los Ángeles, California) y Sosie Ruth Bacon (nacida el 15 de marzo de 1992). He played a character who saved his town from under-the-earth "graboid" monsters in the comedy/horror film Tremors,[19] and he portrayed an earnest medical student experimenting with death in Joel Schumacher's Flatliners. The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. [5]​[6]​, Después actuaría en películas como A Few Good Men (1992), con Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson y Demi Moore cosechando de nuevo un gran éxito en taquilla, además la cinta recibió cuatro nominaciones a los Óscar, incluyendo Óscar a la mejor película.


Required to play a character with sexist attitudes, he admitted that the role was not that large a stretch for him.

[4] In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture industry. Although he was initially dismayed by the game, the meme stuck, and Bacon eventually embraced it, forming the charitable initiative SixDegrees.org, a social networking site intended to link people and charities to each other.[54].

[11] Some of his early stage work included Getting Out, performed at New York's Phoenix Theater, and Flux, at Second Stage Theatre during their 1981–1982 season.

A similar measurement exists in the mathematics community, where one measures how far one is removed from co-writing a mathematical paper with the famous mathematician Paul Erdős. The name of the game derives from the idea of six degrees of separation. Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor and producer. [7] He briefly worked on the television soap operas Search for Tomorrow (1979) and Guiding Light (1980–81) in New York.

For the next several years he chose films that cast him against either type and experienced, by his own estimation, a career slump.
[43] Bacon was previously in a five-year relationship with actress Tracy Pollan, in the 1980s.

"[15] To prepare for the role, Bacon enrolled at a high school as a transfer student named "Ren McCormick" and studied teenagers before leaving in the middle of the day.