An attractive, innocent-looking blond lead, often cast as a smarmy yuppie scum you love to hate, James Spader won the Best Actor Award at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival for his role as Graham, the sexually impotent outsider who disrupts the lives of a young Southern lawyer, his wife and her sister, in Steven Soderbergh's "sex, lies and videotape.” Prior to that success, he had gained notice for two portrayals of reprehensible wealthy psychopaths: as the villainous best friend of Andrew McCarthy in "Pretty in Pink" (1986) and as the lowlife cocaine dealer who forces Robert Downey Jr. to