Jeff Bridges was in a film written by two men.
Jeff Bridges . He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis `` Bad '' Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart , and earned Academy Award nominations for his roles in The Last Picture Show ( 1971 ) , Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ( 1974 ) , Starman ( 1984 ) , The Contender ( 2000 ) , True Grit ( 2010 ) , and Hell or High Water ( 2016 ) . Starman is a 1984 American science fiction romance film directed by John Carpenter that tells the story of a humanoid alien ( Jeff Bridges ) who has come to Earth in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe . The original screenplay was written by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon , with Dean Riesner doing uncredited re-writes .