---
name: "Kevin Costner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kevin-costner"
fi1m_id: "kevin-costner"
imdb_id: "nm0000126"
tmdb_id: 1269
wikidata_id: "Q11930"
roles: ["Actor","Producer","Director"]
born: "18 January 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 19
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 16
updated: "2026-10-05T12:46:10.442173+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kevin Costner

## Identity

Kevin Costner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kevin-costner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kevin-costner
- **IMDb ID:** nm0000126
- **TMDB ID:** 1269
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11930
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Costner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11930, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000126/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1269

Actor and producer. Born 18 January 1955 in Lynwood, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 18 January 1955, Lynwood, California, USA
- **Active:** 1983–present
- **Also known as:** Kevin Michael Costner
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 19: 16 acting, 3 directing
- **Frequently works with:** [Abbey Lee](https://film.one/person/abbey-lee.md), [Charles Gordon](https://film.one/person/charles-gordon.md), [David Valdes](https://film.one/person/david-valdes.md), [Diane Lane](https://film.one/person/diane-lane.md), [Howard Kaplan](https://film.one/person/howard-kaplan.md), [Jim Wilson](https://film.one/person/jim-wilson.md), [John Lee Hancock](https://film.one/person/john-lee-hancock.md), [Jon Baird](https://film.one/person/jon-baird.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscars (2 won · 1 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 16 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 78 (4), 1990s 70 (6), 2000s 70 (1), 2010s 67 (5), 2020s 56 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 65 across 16 titles
- **Score spread:** 5 at 80+, 10 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 12 of 15 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 10, Thriller 6, Crime 5, Action 4, History 4, Adventure 3
- **Screen time:** 35 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,726m across 15 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Costner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11930, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000126/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1269

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Untouchables*](https://film.one/film/the-untouchables.md) (81), [*Hidden Figures*](https://film.one/film/hidden-figures.md) (80), [*Molly's Game*](https://film.one/film/mollys-game.md) (70)
- **AMC+:** [*Field of Dreams*](https://film.one/film/field-of-dreams.md) (83), [*Dances with Wolves*](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md) (80)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Thirteen Days*](https://film.one/film/thirteen-days.md) (70), [*Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves*](https://film.one/film/robin-hood-prince-of-thieves.md) (65)
- **Pluto TV:** [*Bull Durham*](https://film.one/film/bull-durham.md) (83)
- **Disney+:** [*McFarland, USA*](https://film.one/film/mcfarland-usa.md) (72)
- **Peacock:** [*Let Him Go*](https://film.one/film/let-him-go.md) (64)
- **Paramount+:** [*The Bodyguard*](https://film.one/film/the-bodyguard.md) (63)
- **Hulu:** [*Waterworld*](https://film.one/film/waterworld.md) (61)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Kevin Costner

> Kevin Costner's gift is doing less than the scene asks and making it read as conviction. Opposite the right partner it is close to irresistible; left to run a picture of his own, he lets that patience spread over three hours.

Watch what Kevin Costner does while someone else is talking. In *Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1* (2024) he sits on a horse and lets Abbey Lee carry the conversation, saying a sentence where most leading men would want the paragraph. In *Bull Durham* (1988) he lets Susan Sarandon's flirtation run on without reaching for the laugh at every pause. It is the same habit thirty-six years apart. His composure never looks like withholding, so when he does speak we assume he means it.

That composure made him the leading man of the late 1980s, and it took two baseball films to show what it was for. Ron Shelton's *Bull Durham* gave it a partner in Sarandon, and their scenes are easy in a way most screen flirtation is not. Phil Alden Robinson's *Field of Dreams* (1989) turned it inside out: Ray Kinsella is all unguarded eagerness, and Costner lets that eagerness look faintly embarrassing before the film asks us to believe in it. We were moved by that performance more than we expected, because he plays a grown man's faith in a ball game as something he knows is foolish and cannot give up. *Dances with Wolves* (1990), which he also directed, put the watchfulness at the centre of a film, and Dean Semler's wide plains gave him something worth watching. He never acts as though each discovery were a revelation, and the buffalo hunt shows how well he can organise action when he is behind the camera.

Where it fails is when the part wants pleasure rather than principle. *Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves* (1991) gives him a hero who breaks the law for good reasons and he plays it as a duty, carrying the man's importance into scenes that need him to enjoy himself, while Alan Rickman runs off with the film. In *The Untouchables* (1987) he had the sense not to compete with Robert De Niro's Capone, and Sean Connery's impatience did the work of making Eliot Ness's goodness bearable. Oliver Stone's *JFK* (1991) suits him better: Jim Garrison has to seem worth listening to before the film can ask us to follow him anywhere, and Costner's restraint is the credential.

The director is a different question. *Dances with Wolves* ran 181 minutes and mostly earned them, though the narration kept explaining an interest his face had already made clear. The middle of his career took in *Waterworld* (1995) and *The Postman* (1997), which we have not reviewed and which were criticised for their length, and then a long stretch as John Dutton in *Yellowstone* (2018–2024). *Horizon*, three hours that start four stories and finish none, suggests the patience that serves him as an actor has no brake once he is also producer, writer and star. Its night attack on the settlement is properly frightening, and then the film wanders off to begin something else.

Further chapters are promised and may yet make the first look wise. Until then, the Costner we would send a stranger to is the one in someone else's film, standing near a Sarandon or a Connery, saying less than everyone around him and meaning more.

## Biography

Kevin Costner is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He was born on 18 January 1955 in Lynwood, California.

He rose to prominence in the late 1980s with roles in *The Untouchables* (1987) and *Bull Durham* (1988). Costner starred in, directed and produced *Dances with Wolves* (1990), which won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. Other notable films include *Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves* (1991), *The Bodyguard* (1992) and *Waterworld* (1995). On television he portrayed Devil Anse Hatfield in the miniseries *Hatfields & McCoys* (2012), winning a Primetime Emmy Award.

In 2024 Costner starred as Hayes Ellison, directed, co-wrote the screenplay and story, and produced *Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (19)

### Performed in (16) — the average rests on these

- *Let Him Go* (2020), Fi1m 64, as George Blackledge — [page](https://film.one/film/let-him-go.md)
- *The Highwaymen* (2019), Fi1m 55, as Frank Hamer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-highwaymen.md)
- *Molly's Game* (2017), Fi1m 70, as Larry Bloom — [page](https://film.one/film/mollys-game.md)
- *Hidden Figures* (2016), Fi1m 80, as Al Harrison — [page](https://film.one/film/hidden-figures.md)
- *McFarland, USA* (2015), Fi1m 72, as Jim White — [page](https://film.one/film/mcfarland-usa.md)
- *Man of Steel* (2013), Fi1m 60, as Jonathan Kent — [page](https://film.one/film/man-of-steel.md)
- *Thirteen Days* (2000), Fi1m 70, as Kenneth O'Donnell — [page](https://film.one/film/thirteen-days.md)
- *Waterworld* (1995), Fi1m 61, as Mariner — [page](https://film.one/film/waterworld.md)
- *A Perfect World* (1993), Fi1m 74, as Robert 'Butch' Haynes — [page](https://film.one/film/a-perfect-world.md)
- *The Bodyguard* (1992), Fi1m 63, as Frank Farmer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-bodyguard.md)
- *JFK* (1991), Fi1m 80, as Jim Garrison — [page](https://film.one/film/jfk.md)
- *Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves* (1991), Fi1m 65, as Robin of Locksley / Robin Hood — [page](https://film.one/film/robin-hood-prince-of-thieves.md)
- *Field of Dreams* (1989), Fi1m 83, as Ray Kinsella — [page](https://film.one/film/field-of-dreams.md)
- *Bull Durham* (1988), Fi1m 83, as Crash Davis — [page](https://film.one/film/bull-durham.md)
- *The Untouchables* (1987), Fi1m 81, as Eliot Ness — [page](https://film.one/film/the-untouchables.md)
- *The Big Chill* (1983), Fi1m 67, as Alex (corpse) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-chill.md)

### Directed (3)

- *Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1* (2024), Fi1m 55, as Hayes Ellison — [page](https://film.one/film/horizon-an-american-saga-chapter-1.md)
- *Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2* (2024), Fi1m 48, as Hayes Ellison — [page](https://film.one/film/horizon-an-american-saga-chapter-2.md)
- *Dances with Wolves* (1990), Fi1m 80, as Lieutenant Dunbar — [page](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md)

## Complete filmography (90)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Gray House* (2026), series, Executive Producer
- *Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Kevin Costner's The West* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Yellowstone to Yosemite with Kevin Costner* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2* (2024), as Hayes Ellison · Producer, Director, Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/horizon-an-american-saga-chapter-2.md)
- *Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1* (2024), as Hayes Ellison · Producer, Director, Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/horizon-an-american-saga-chapter-1.md)
- *Yellowstone: One-Fifty* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Zack Snyder's Justice League* (2021), as Jonathan Kent (voice) (uncredited)
- *Let Him Go* (2020), as George Blackledge · Executive Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/let-him-go.md)
- *The Art of Racing in the Rain* (2019), as Enzo (voice)
- *The Highwaymen* (2019), as Frank Hamer · Executive Producer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/the-highwaymen.md)
- *Yellowstone* (2018), series, as John Dutton · Executive Producer
- *The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation, The War for Independence, And The Making of America* (2017), as Narrator (voice)
- *Molly's Game* (2017), as Larry Bloom — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/mollys-game.md)
- *Hidden Figures* (2016), as Al Harrison — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/hidden-figures.md)
- *The Hurt Business* (2016), as Narrator (voice)
- *Criminal* (2016), as Jerico Stewart
- *Fastball* (2016), as Narrator
- *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice* (2016), as Jonathan Kent — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/film/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice.md)
- *Billy The Kid: New Evidence* (2015), as Narrator (voice)
- *McFarland, USA* (2015), as Jim White — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/mcfarland-usa.md)
- *Black or White* (2015), as Elliot Anderson · Producer
- *Draft Day* (2014), as Sonny Weaver Jr.
- *3 Days to Kill* (2014), as Agent Ethan Renner
- *Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit* (2014), as William Harper
- *Man of Steel* (2013), as Jonathan Kent — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/man-of-steel.md)
- *Hatfields & McCoys* (2012), series, as 'Devil' Anse Hatfield · Producer
- *Field of Dreams 2: Lockout* (2011), as Iowa Farmer's Dad
- *The Company Men* (2010), as Jack Dolan
- *Petty Blue* (2010), as Narrator (voice)
- *The New Daughter* (2009), as John James
- *NASCAR: The Ride of Their Lives* (2008), as Narrator (voice)
- *Swing Vote* (2008), as Bud Johnson · Producer
- *Mr. Brooks* (2007), as Earl Brooks · Producer
- *Ever Again* (2006), as Narrator (voice)
- *The Guardian* (2006), as Ben Randall
- *On Native Soil* (2006), as Narrator (voice)
- *Rumor Has It...* (2005), as Beau Burroughs
- *The Upside of Anger* (2005), as Denny Davies
- *Open Range* (2003), as Charley Waite · Director, Producer
- *Dragonfly* (2002), as Joe Darrow
- *3000 Miles to Graceland* (2001), as Thomas J. Murphy
- *Thirteen Days* (2000), as Kenneth O'Donnell · Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/thirteen-days.md)
- *When It Was a Game 3* (2000), as Passage Narrator (voice)
- *Play It to the Bone* (1999), as Kevin Costner (Ringside Fan)
- *For Love of the Game* (1999), as Billy Chapel
- *Message in a Bottle* (1999), as Garrett Blake · Producer
- *Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drums & Song* (1998), as Narrator
- *The Postman* (1997), as The Postman · Producer, Director
- *Fierce Creatures* (1997), Thanks
- *Tin Cup* (1996), as Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy
- *Waterworld* (1995), as Mariner · Producer — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/waterworld.md)
- *500 Nations* (1995), series, Producer
- *The War* (1994), as Stephen Simmons
- *Wyatt Earp* (1994), as Wyatt Earp · Producer
- *Rapa Nui* (1994), Producer
- *A Perfect World* (1993), as Robert 'Butch' Haynes — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/a-perfect-world.md)
- *The Bodyguard* (1992), as Frank Farmer · Producer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-bodyguard.md)
- *JFK* (1991), as Jim Garrison — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/jfk.md)
- *Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves* (1991), as Robin of Locksley / Robin Hood · Producer, Production Consultant — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/robin-hood-prince-of-thieves.md)
- *Dances with Wolves* (1990), as Lieutenant Dunbar · Producer, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md)
- *The Gunrunner* (1990), as Ted
- *The Earth Day Special* (1990), as Bartender
- *Revenge* (1990), as Michael J. Cochran · Executive Producer
- *Chasing Dreams* (1989), as Ed
- *Field of Dreams* (1989), as Ray Kinsella — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/field-of-dreams.md)
- *Bull Durham* (1988), as Crash Davis — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/bull-durham.md)
- *No Way Out* (1987), as Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell
- *The Untouchables* (1987), as Eliot Ness — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-untouchables.md)
- *Amazing Stories* (1986), as Captain
- *Shadows Run Black* (1986), as Jimmy Scott
- *Amazing Stories* (1985), series, as Captain
- *American Flyers* (1985), as Marcus Sommers
- *Silverado* (1985), as Jake
- *Fandango* (1985), as Gardner Barnes
- *Testament* (1983), as Phil Pitkin
- *The Big Chill* (1983), as Alex (corpse) — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-chill.md)
- *Stacy's Knights* (1983), as Will Bonner
- *Table for Five* (1983), as Newlywed Husband
- *Frances* (1982), as Luther (uncredited)
- *Human Highway* (1982), Manager of Operations
- *Night Shift* (1982), as Frat Boy #1
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, as Phil Pitkin
- *Malibu Hot Summer* (1981), as John Logan
- *Untitled Kevin Costner/Ariel Vromen Project*, Writer, Producer
- *Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 3*, as Hayes Ellison · Director, Producer, Story, Screenplay
- *Custer State Park: Spirit of Tatanka*, as Narrator
- *Honeymoon with Harry*, as Harry
- *Headhunters*, as Lazer · Writer, Producer
- *Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 4*, as Hayes Ellison · Producer, Director, Screenplay, Story

## Gallery

- ![Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams (1989)](https://film.one/media/title/6453/still-1f3e12230d25.jpg) Kevin Costner as Ray Kinsella in *Field of Dreams* (1989) — Image via TMDB
- ![Kevin Costner as Crash Davis in Bull Durham (1988)](https://film.one/media/title/1340/still-55ddb76214d5.jpg) Kevin Costner as Crash Davis in *Bull Durham* (1988) — Image via TMDB
- ![Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (1987)](https://film.one/media/title/6422/still-127a3fa74209.jpg) Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness in *The Untouchables* (1987) — Image via TMDB
- ![Kevin Costner as Robin of Locksley in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)](https://film.one/media/title/4067/still-2b8418972f64.jpg) Kevin Costner as Robin of Locksley in *Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves* (1991) — Image via TMDB
- ![Kevin Costner as Lieutenant Dunbar in Dances with Wolves (1990)](https://film.one/media/title/3958/still-b72f84693ffa.jpg) Kevin Costner as Lieutenant Dunbar in *Dances with Wolves* (1990) — Image via TMDB
- ![Kevin Costner as Hayes Ellison in Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)](https://film.one/media/title/1091/still-14fce738bfed.jpg) Kevin Costner as Hayes Ellison in *Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1* (2024) — Image via TMDB
- ![Kevin Costner](https://film.one/media/person/11352/gallery-1a867705db1d.jpg) Kevin Costner — Bill Ingalls, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Kevin_Costner_2016.jpg/1280px-Kevin_Costner_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kevin Costner](https://film.one/media/person/11352/gallery-0409b89d10e9.jpg) Kevin Costner — Image via TMDB
- ![Kevin Costner](https://film.one/media/person/11352/gallery-782aea83a669.jpg) Kevin Costner — Image via TMDB
- ![Kevin Costner](https://film.one/media/person/11352/gallery-8abacb716c17.jpg) Kevin Costner — Image via TMDB
- ![Kevin Costner](https://film.one/media/person/11352/gallery-c903ac926186.jpg) Kevin Costner — Image via TMDB
- ![Kevin Costner](https://film.one/media/person/11352/gallery-eb1cc0251a3b.jpg) Kevin Costner — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 2 won, 1 nominated

- 1991: Best Director (won), for *Dances with Wolves*
- 1991: Best Picture (won), for *Dances with Wolves*
- 1991: Best Actor (nominated), for *Dances with Wolves*

### Golden Globes — 2 won

- 2023: Best Actor – Television Series Drama (won), for *Yellowstone*
- 1991: Golden Globe Awards (won)

### Primetime Emmy Awards — 1 won

- 2012: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (won), for *Hatfields & McCoys*

### SAG Awards — 1 won

- 2013: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie (won)

### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won

- 1991: Silver Bear (won)

### Other awards — 5 won, 1 nominated

- Bambi Award 2024: Bambi Award (won)
- Honorary César 2013: Honorary César (won)
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture 1993: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture (nominated), for *The Bodyguard*
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor 1992: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor (won), for *Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves*
- Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 1990: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director (won), for *Dances with Wolves*
- Golden Apple Award 1988: Golden Apple Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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