In 1998, working from a Russell Banks novel, Nolte teamed with Writer/director Paul Schrader and fellow seasoned player, James Coburn, to compose Affliction, the wrenchingly painful portrait of a father-son relationship crippled by violence. The film approached the subject of male violence in an entirely unsentimental, but shockingly emotional manner, and Nolte’s performance was called by one reporter, “the most candid and raw on the American screen of 1998.” He won a 1999 Oscar nomination for the role. Nolte has one son, Brawley King (he appeared as the young kidnapping victim in Ransom), by his third wife, Rebecca Linger. He currently lives in Malibu with actress Vicki Lewis of TV’s News Radio.