The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actor Willem Dafoe. Dafoe made his film debut in Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980) before earning his first Academy Award nomination for Oliver Stone's war film Platoon (1986). In 1988 he starred as Jesus Christ in Martin Scorsese's religious epic The Last Temptation of Christ and as an FBI Agent Alan Parker's racial drama Mississippi Burning. He also made appearances in Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989), John Waters' Cry-Baby (1990), David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990), and Anthony Minghella's The English Patient (1996) and Mary Harron's American Psycho (2000).