It was also a generally important time for the genre, as the modern insurgence was marked by Unforgiven (1992), which was one of two '90s westerns to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Throughout most of the 1980s the Western was assumed to be a dead genre, certainly compared to the central role it once played in Hollywood's construction of a national mythology. While there were ...

Although it is a bit disappointing that a great actor’s talents are being wasted, Cusack gave the most menacing performance of his entire career in the underrated western Never Grow Old.