Jack Nicholson

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Acting

John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a retired American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards 12 times, winning Best Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets, and Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three), and second to Katharine Hepburn for most acting wins overall (four). He is also one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other one being Michael Caine). He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include, Easy Rider, Chinatown, The Shining, Reds, Batman, A Few Good Men, About Schmidt, Something's Gotta Give, and The Departed.

Filmography

• Breakdown: 1975 (2025)
• Films to Die For (2025)
• Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025)
• John Candy: I Like Me (2025)
• SNL50: The Homecoming Concert (2025)
• Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location (2024)
• Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director (2024)
• Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend (2022)
• Untold: Deal with the Devil (2021)
• Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
• Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)
• Joker: Put on a Happy Face (2020)
• 40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic (2020)
• Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood (2017)
• The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 (2017)
• Mansfield 66/67 (2017)
• I Am Divine (2014)
• Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2012)
• Close Up (2012)
• Corman's World (2011)
• How Do You Know (2010)
• BBStory: An American Film Renaissance (2010)
• Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom (2010)
• America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (2010)
• Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces' (2010)
• Stardust (2010)
• I'm Still Here (2010)
• Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos (2010)
• Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight (2008)
• Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Jack Nicholson (2008)
• Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
• Notes on an American Film Director at Work (2008)
• The Bucket List (2007)
• Making of Chinatown (2007)
• View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' (2007)
• The Visions of Stanley Kubrick (2007)
• Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick (2007)
• Into the Wild (2007)
• Witness to 'Reds' (2006)
• The Departed (2006)
• Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast (2005)
• Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild (2004)
• Something's Gotta Give (2003)
• Anger Management (2003)
• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
• About Schmidt (2002)
• Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. (2002)
• America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001)
• Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film (2001)
• The Pledge (2001)
• Velocity (1999)
• Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party (1999)
• Playmate Pajama Party (1999)
• Junket Whore (1998)
• As Good as It Gets (1997)
• Completely Cuckoo (1997)
• The Evening Star (1996)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• Blood and Wine (1996)
• Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels (1996)
• The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped (1995)
• The Rolling Stones: Stripped (1995)
• The Crossing Guard (1995)
• Wolf (1994)
• Hoffa (1992)
• A Few Good Men (1992)
• Man Trouble (1992)
• The Two Jakes (1990)
• Batman (1989)
• On the tracks of a filmmaker (1988)
• Ironweed (1987)
• Broadcast News (1987)
• Creepy Classics (1987)
• Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump (1987)
• The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
• Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories (1987)
• Barbra Streisand: One Voice (1986)
• The Elephant's Child (1986)
• Heartburn (1986)
• Live Aid (1985)
• Prizzi's Honor (1985)
• Terms of Endearment (1983)
• The Border (1982)
• Reds (1981)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
• Making 'The Shining' (1980)
• The Shining (1980)
• Goin' South (1978)
• The Last Tycoon (1976)
• The Missouri Breaks (1976)
• TVTV Looks at the Oscars (1976)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• The Fortune (1975)
• Tommy (1975)
• The Passenger (1975)
• Chinatown (1974)
• The Last Detail (1973)
• The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
• Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here (1972)
• A Safe Place (1971)
• Carnal Knowledge (1971)
• Drive, He Said (1971)
• Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age (1971)
• Five Easy Pieces (1970)
• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
• Rebel Rousers (1970)
• Easy Rider (1969)
• Head (1968)
• Targets (1968)
• Psych-Out (1968)
• The Movie Orgy (1968)
• The Trip (1967)
• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
• Hells Angels on Wheels (1967)
• Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
• The Shooting (1966)
• Back Door to Hell (1964)
• Cordillera (1964)
• Flight to Fury (1964)
• Ensign Pulver (1964)
• Thunder Island (1963)
• The Terror (1963)
• The Raven (1963)
• The Broken Land (1962)
• The Hour of St. Francis (1962)
• Little Amy (1962)
• Studs Lonigan (1960)
• The Wild Ride (1960)
• The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
• Too Soon to Love (1960)
• Cry Baby Killer (1958)
• Monty and the Movies