Hurt's son said in a statement that his father died Sunday of natural causes. He said Hurt died peacefully, among family.
NEW YORK, New York -- William Hurt, the Oscar-winning actor of"Broadcast News,""Body Heat" and"The Big Chill," has died. He was 71.
In a long-running career, Hurt was three times nominated for an Academy Award, winning for 1985's"Kiss of the Spider Woman." After his screen debut in 1980's Paddy Chayefsky-scripted"Altered States" as a psychopathologist studying schizophrenia and experimenting with sensory deprivation, Hurt quickly emerged as one of the 1980s foremost leading men.
Having started in New York theater, Hurt then returned to the stage to star on Broadway in David Rabe's"Hurlyburly," for which he was nominated for a Tony. Shortly after came"Kiss of the Spider Woman," which won Hurt the best actor Oscar for his performance as a gay prisoner in a repressive South American dictatorship.
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