Jack Horner
The San Fernando Valley filmmaker who earned Burt Reynolds his only Oscar nomination — the chevron gone silver, and never more commanding.
- Actor
- Burt Reynolds
- Film
- Boogie Nights
- Year
- 1997
- Medium
- Movie
- Style
- Chevron
- Fan Votes
- 0 legendary · 0 meh
Why Jack Horner's Mustache Matters
Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997) cast Burt Reynolds against the grain of his good-ol'-boy image as Jack Horner, a director in the late-1970s San Fernando Valley adult film industry who dreams of making something real. Reynolds is the calm center of a sprawling ensemble, and his mustache — the famous chevron, now gray — is the film's anchor of old-school authority.
The role revived Reynolds's career and earned him a Golden Globe and his only Academy Award nomination. Critics noted how well his natural screen presence fit a character who is, essentially, a showman with a patient ego, and the mustache is inseparable from that presence.
The film is for adults, but the mustache lesson is universal: a great lip ages into authority if you let it.
- Burt Reynolds won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and received his only Academy Award nomination for this role.
- *Boogie Nights* (1997) was Paul Thomas Anderson's second feature film.
- The cast included Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and John C. Reilly.
How to Grow the Chevron
The Tom Selleck. Thick, wide, and confident. The default setting for a man who means business.
✂ Read the Style Guide
