
Jack Nicholson
Born April 22, 1937 · Manhattan, New York, USA
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.
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How Do You Know

Terms of Endearment

The Pledge

I'm Still Here

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Wolf

Carnal Knowledge

About Schmidt

Broadcast News

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

Hoffa

The Crossing Guard

Corman's World

Prizzi's Honor

Five Easy Pieces

The Passenger

The Missouri Breaks

The Little Shop of Horrors

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast

The Two Jakes

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Tommy

The Raven

Reds

The Last Detail

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

Goin' South

Blood and Wine

Man Trouble

Kubrick by Kubrick

The Last Tycoon

The Terror

Monty and the Movies

Heartburn

Joker: Put on a Happy Face

Untold: Deal with the Devil

America | A Tribute to Heroes

Breakdown: 1975

Barbra Streisand: One Voice

The Movie Orgy

The Border

Ironweed

Junket Whore

Ride in the Whirlwind

The King of Marvin Gardens

The Fortune

Targets

The Evening Star

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Live Aid

The Shooting

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic

Too Soon to Love

Close Up

Notes on an American Film Director at Work

Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight

Head

I Am Divine

Hells Angels on Wheels

Morceaux de Cannes

Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.

Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood

Psych-Out

View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

Little Amy

Cry Baby Killer

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

Drive, He Said

The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015

Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick

Completely Cuckoo

Ensign Pulver

TVTV Looks at the Oscars

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age

Mansfield 66/67

Films to Die For

The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped

BBStory: An American Film Renaissance

On the tracks of a filmmaker

Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location

Rebel Rousers

Back Door to Hell

Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Jack Nicholson

The Broken Land

Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom

Playmate Pajama Party

Stardust

Creepy Classics

The Rolling Stones: Stripped

The Hour of St. Francis

The Wild Ride

A Safe Place

Studs Lonigan

Making 'The Shining'

Witness to 'Reds'

Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director

Flight to Fury

Velocity

Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories

Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces'


































