John Travolta has starred in some of the most monumental films of our generation. He earned his first Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for his role in the blockbuster Saturday Night Fever, which launched the disco phenomenon of the 1970s. He went on to star in the big screen version of the long-running musical Grease and the sleeper hit Urban Cowboy, both of which also influenced trends in popular culture.

Travolta was honored with a second Academy Award nomination in 1994 for his riveting portrayal of a philosophical hitman in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. The highly acclaimed role also earned Travola BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations and a "Best Actor" award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, among other distinguished honors.

Travolta garnered further praise as a Mafioso-turned-movie producer in the 1995 comedy sensation Get Shorty, winning the Golden Globe Award for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical, or Comedy." In 1998, Travolta was honored by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts with the Britannia Award and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Chicago Film Festival.

Travolta won the prestigious Alan J. Pakula Award from the U.S. Broadcast Critics Association for his performance in 1998's A Civil Action, based on the best-selling book and directed by Steven Zallian. He was nominated for a Golden Globe once again for his performance in 1998's Primary Colors, directed by Mike Nichols and co-starring Emma Thompson and Billy Bob Thornton.

Travolta's additional film credits include the Brian DePalma thrillers Carrie and Blow Out; Amy Heckerling's hit comedy Look Who's Talking (as well as its two sequels); Nora Ephron's comic hit Michael; the romantic drama Phenomenon; John Woo's top-grossing action film Broken Arrow; the blockbuster action movie Face/Off, opposite Nicholas Cage; The General's Daughter, co-starring Madeline Stowe; the movie version of the popular comic book The Punisher; the drama Basic, directed by John McTiernan; the psychological thriller Domestic Disturbance, directed by Harold Becker; the hit action picture Swordfish, with Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman and directed by Dominic Sena; and the sci-fi movie Battlefield Earth, based on the bestselling novel by L. Ron Hubbard.