In his next film,Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), based on a novel by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, a precocious nine-year-old boy wanders around New York City in search of the lock to a key left behind by his father, who died in the September 11 attacks.

Another maternal role followed inExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), a film about a boy coping with the death of his father in the September 11 attacks. In 2013 Bullock earned laughs as half of a mismatched pair of female FBI agents in the broad, raunchy comedyThe Heat.…

…in the 9/11 attacks inExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), a screen adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel. Davis’s later credits includeWon’t Back Down (2012), which examined conflicts in American public education;Prisoners (2013), a crime drama about missing children; andEnder’s Game (2013), a science-fiction adventure movie.

…11 attacks in the dramaExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011). For the mystical epicCloud Atlas (2012), which wove together multiple narratives, he took on six roles, ranging from a 19th-century surgeon to a postapocalyptic tribesman.

His supporting turn inExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) earned him a second Oscar nomination. He played a priest inThe Letters (2014), a Mother Teresa biopic. In 2015 von Sydow joined the cast of the sci-fi epicStar Wars: The Force Awakens, and the following year he…