For which movie did Sam Shepard receive an Academy Award nomination ?

Sam Shepard died 27 July 2017 at the age of 73 from what is called Lou Gehrig's disease or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Born in 1943 he was an author of about 44 plays, a number of books of short stories, a screenwriter and actor.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for his play Buried Child (a story of a family's dark secret). He was nominated for an Academy Award for the Best Supporting Actor for his role as the pilot Yeager in the movie The Right Stuff in 1983. His other movies include, The Days of Heaven, Black Hawk Down and Steel Magnolias.

Shepard was born as Samuel Shepard Rogers III and grew up in the West and Midwest with a father he described as violent and alcoholic.

He dropped out of school and in 1963 ended up as a bus boy in a New York off-off Broadway scene while working at the famous jazz club Village Gate. His first plays were started there.