Today, we wish a happy 95th birthday to the great actor-turned-writer Gene Hackman!

Today’s scene that I love comes from one of Hackman’s best films, 1974’s The Conversation.  In this scene, Hackman’s surveillance expert has a nightmare inspired by his fear that his latest job may cause two people to be murdered.  Hackman won two Oscars over the course of his career and was nominated several times.  The fact that he was not nominated for The Conversation was a huge oversight on the part of the Academy.