"Academy. Nicholson's acting career spans over sixty years. He has won three Academy Awards, and with twelve nominations, he is the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. Among his most notable films are ""Easy Rider"" (1969), ""Five Easy Pieces"" (1970), ""The Last Detail"" (1973), ""Chinatown"" (1974), ""The Passenger"" (1975), ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975), ""The Shining"" (1980), ""Terms of Endearment"" (1983), ""Batman"" (1989), ""A Few Good Men"" (1992), ""As Good as It Gets"" (1997), ""About Schmidt"" (2002), ""Something's Gotta Give"" (2003), ""The Departed"" (2006), and ""The Bucket List"" (2007). Jack Nicholson John Joseph Nicholson (born April"
"(1973), ""Terms of Endearment"" (1983), ""As Good as It Gets"" (1997), ""About Schmidt"" (2002), and ""The Bucket List"" (2007); the neo-noir mystery ""Chinatown"" (1974); the horror film ""The Shining"" (1980); the biopic ""Reds"" (1981); the fantasy comedy ""The Witches of Eastwick"" (1987); the superhero film ""Batman"" (1989) as the Joker; the legal drama ""A Few Good Men"" (1992); the romantic horror film ""Wolf"" (1994); the science fiction comedy ""Mars Attacks!"" (1996); the comedy ""Anger Management"" (2003); the romantic comedy ""Something's Gotta Give"" (2003); and the crime drama ""The Departed"" (2006). Nicholson has not acted in a film since ""How Do"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"the first completely independent film of New Hollywood. ""Easy Rider"" debuted at Cannes and garnered the ""First Film Award"" () after which it received two Oscar nominations, one for best original screenplay and one for Corman-alum Jack Nicholson's breakthrough performance in the supporting role of George Hanson, an alcoholic lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. Following on the heels of ""Easy Rider"" shortly afterwards was the revived United Artists' ""Midnight Cowboy"" (also 1969), which, like ""Easy Rider"", took numerous cues from Ken Anger and his influences in the French New Wave. It became the first and only X rated"
"""The Postman Always Rings Twice"" (1981), ""Reds"" (1981), where Nicholson portrays the writer Eugene O'Neill with a quiet intensity, ""Prizzi's Honor"" (1985), ""The Witches of Eastwick"" (1987), ""Broadcast News"" (1987), and ""Ironweed"" (1987). Three Oscar nominations also followed (""Reds"", ""Prizzi's Honor"", and ""Ironweed""). John Huston, who directed ""Prizzi's Honor"", said of Nicholson's acting, ""He just illuminates the book. He impressed me in one scene after another; the movie is composed largely of first takes with him."" In the 1989 ""Batman"" movie, Nicholson played the psychotic murderer and villain The Joker. The film was an international smash hit, and a lucrative"
"male actors to win three Academy Awards. Nicholson is one of only two actors to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in every decade from the 1960s to the 2000s; the other is Michael Caine. He has won six Golden Globe Awards, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, at 57, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. He has had a number of high-profile relationships, most notably with Anjelica Huston and Rebecca Broussard, and was married to Sandra Knight from 1962 until their divorce"
"took place on December 15, 2008, where he was inducted alongside 11 other Californians. In 2010, Nicholson was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. In 2011, Nicholson received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Brown University at its 243rd commencement. At the ceremony, Ruth Simmons, Brown University's president, called him, ""the most skilled actor of our lifetime"". With 12 Academy Award nominations (eight for Best Actor and four for Best Supporting Actor), Nicholson is the most nominated male actor in Academy Awards history. Only Nicholson (1960s–2000s), Michael Caine (1960s–2000s), Meryl Streep (1970s–2010s), Paul Newman (1950s–1960s, 1980s–2000s),"
"screen characters, someone who is ""snarly, dumb, smart, noble, rascally—all the parts of 'Jack'"" Nicholson went on to win his next Academy Award for Best Actor in the romantic comedy, ""As Good as It Gets"" (1997), his third film directed by James L. Brooks. He played Melvin Udall, a ""wickedly funny"", mean-spirited, obsessive-compulsive novelist. ""I'm a studio Method actor"", he said. ""So I was prone to give some kind of clinical presentation of the disorder."" His Oscar was matched with the Academy Award for Best Actress for Helen Hunt, who played a Manhattan wisecracking, single-mother waitress drawn into a love/hate"
"North American box office. ""The Last Detail"" was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival and Nicholson was awarded Best Actor. It was also nominated for three Academy Awards – Jack Nicholson for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Randy Quaid for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and Robert Towne for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium with none of them winning. In addition, ""The Last Detail"" was nominated for two Golden Globes Awards – Nicholson for Best Motion Picture Actor – Drama and Quaid for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture."
"1998. With eleven awards, ""Titanic"" tied with ""Ben-Hur"" for the most Academy Awards in Oscar history. It also became the first film to win Best Picture without a screenwriting nomination since 1965's ""The Sound of Music"". Best Actress winner Helen Hunt became the first performer to win an Oscar while concurrently starring in a television series; Jack Nicholson became the fourth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. Both won for their roles in ""As Good as It Gets"", making it the seventh film to win both lead acting awards. Nominated for their performances as Rose DeWitt Bukater in"
"handle the role, saying, ""There is James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, and Henry Fonda. After that, who is there but Jack Nicholson?"" During the filming, Nicholson struck up what became a lifelong friendship with co-star Garfunkel. When he visited Los Angeles, Garfunkel would stay at Nicholson's home in a room Nicholson jokingly called ""the Arthur Garfunkel Suite"". Other Nicholson roles included Hal Ashby's ""The Last Detail"" (1973), with Randy Quaid, for which Nicholson won for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and he was nominated for his third Oscar and a Golden Globe. Television journalist David Gilmour writes"
"listed first and highlighted in boldface. The following seven films received multiple nominations: The following one film received multiple awards: 4th Academy Awards The 4th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened released between August 1, 1930, and July 31, 1931, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. At the ceremony, nine-year-old Jackie Cooper, nominated for Best Actor in ""Skippy"", fell asleep on the shoulder of Best Actress nominee Marie Dressler. When Dressler was announced as the winner, Cooper had to be eased onto his mother’s lap. ""Cimarron"" was the first Western to win Best Picture,"
"in 1975, Miloš Forman directed a screen adaptation, which won the ""Big Five"" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher), Best Director (Forman) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman). Kesey originally was involved in creating the film, but left two weeks into production. He claimed never to have seen the movie because of a dispute over the $20,000 he was initially paid for the film rights. Kesey loathed the fact that, unlike the book, the film was not narrated by the Chief Bromden character, and he disagreed with Jack Nicholson's being cast"
"percentage deal earned him a percentage of the box office gross estimated at $60 million to $90 million. Nicholson said that he was ""particularly proud"" of his performance as the Joker: ""I considered it a piece of pop art"", he said. For his role as hot-headed Col. Nathan R. Jessup in ""A Few Good Men"" (1992), a movie about a murder in a U.S. Marine Corps unit, Nicholson received yet another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. One review describes his performance as ""spellbinding"", adding that he portrayed ""the essence of the quintessential military mind-set"". Critic David Thomson notes"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"for his role of Pancho Villa in ""Viva Villa!"" Best Actor Best Actor is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actors in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actor award was awarded for acting in a film, on May 16, 1929 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) at the Academy Awards to Emil Jannings for his role of Grand Duke Sergius Alexander in ""The Last Command"" and August Schilling in ""The Way of All Flesh"". In"
"on Broadway, during which time his first Hollywood feature, ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"", had also become a popular and critical success. Combined with his second film, ""The Graduate"", in 1967, the two films had already earned a total of 20 Oscar nominations, including two for Best Director, and winning it for ""The Graduate."" Nichols was able to get the best out of actors regardless of their acting experience, whether an unknown such as Dustin Hoffman or a major star like Richard Burton. For his first film, ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"", each of the four actors was nominated for"
"who understands Method acting better academically than I do—or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny, nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I guess."" Although he garnered no Academy Award for Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's ""The Shining"" (1980), it remains one of his more significant roles. He was Kubrick's first choice to play the lead role, although the book's author, Stephen King, wanted the part played by more of an ""everyman"". However, Kubrick as director won the argument, and described Nicholson's acting quality as being ""on a par with the greatest stars of"
"British Academy Television Award for Best Actor ""'1970 Edward Woodward in ""Callan"" ""'1971 Keith Michell in ""The Six Wives of Henry VIII"" ""'1972 John Le Mesurier in ""Traitor"" ""'1973 Anthony Hopkins in ""War and Peace"" ""'1974 Frank Finlay in ""The Adventures of Don Quixote""; ""Candide""; ""The Death of Adolf Hitler"" ""'1975 Peter Barkworth in ""Crown Matrimonial"" ""'1976 John Hurt in ""The Naked Civil Servant"" ""'1977 Derek Jacobi in ""I, Claudius"" ""'1978 Peter Barkworth in ""Professional Foul"" ""'1979 Edward Fox in ""Edward and Mrs Simpson"" ""'1980 Alec Guinness in ""Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"" ""'1981 Denholm Elliott in ""Gentle Folk""; ""In Hiding"";"
"failure of ""Taking Off"", producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz hired him to direct the adaptation of Ken Kesey's cult novel ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"". Forman later said they hired him because he was in their price range. Starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, the adaptation was a critical and commercial success. The film won Oscars in the five most important categories: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. One of only three films in history to do so (alongside ""It Happened One Night"" and ""The Silence of the Lambs""), it firmly established"
"the role of Colonel Nathan Jessup in ""A Few Good Men,"" a role made famous on film (1992) by Jack Nicholson. He is the winner of over half a dozen theatre awards including the Drama Desk and Helen Hayes awards. In films, he played Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett in ""Gettysburg"" (1993) and the lead role of Thomas ""Stonewall"" Jackson in the Gettysburg prequel ""Gods and Generals"" (2003), both from director Ronald F. Maxwell. He considers ""Gods and Generals"" to be his finest performance. Arguably, his most famous film role, before ""Avatar"", was his portrayal of the villainous Ike Clanton"
"film was ""The Graduate"" in 1967, starring then unknown actor Dustin Hoffman, alongside Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross. The film was another critical and financial success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1967 and receiving seven Academy Award nominations, winning Nichols the Academy Award for Best Director. Among the other films he directed were ""Catch-22"" (1970), ""Carnal Knowledge"" (1971), ""Silkwood"" (1983), ""Working Girl"" (1988), ""Wolf"" (1994), ""The Birdcage"" (1996), ""Closer"" (2004), and ""Charlie Wilson's War"" (2007). Along with an Academy Award, Nichols won a Grammy Award (the first for a comedian born outside the United States), four Emmy Awards and nine"
"and Laurence Olivier (1930s–1970s) have been nominated for an acting (lead or supporting) Academy Award in five different decades. With three Oscar wins, he also ties with Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ingrid Bergman, and Meryl Streep for the second-most Oscar wins in acting categories. Only Katharine Hepburn, with four Oscars, won more. In 2012, Nicholson co-presented the Academy Award for Best Picture with First Lady Michelle Obama. This ceremony marked the eighth time he has presented the Academy Award for Best Picture (1972, 1977, 1978, 1990, 1993, 2006, 2007, and 2012). Nicholson is an active and voting member of the"
"set: Nicholson won his second Oscar, an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role of retired astronaut Garrett Breedlove in ""Terms of Endearment"" (1983), directed by James L. Brooks. It starred Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. McGilligan claims it was one of Nicholson's most complex and unforgettable characters. He and MacLaine played many of their scenes in different ways, constantly testing and making adjustments. Their scenes together gave the film its ""buoyant edge"", states McGilligan, and describes Nicholson's acting as ""Jack floating like a butterfly"". Nicholson continued to work prolifically in the 1980s, starring in such films as"
"Bruce Nicholson Bruce Nicholson is a special effects artist who received the Special Achievement Academy Award in 1980 for the visual effects of the film ""The Empire Strikes Back"", which he shared with Brian Johnson, Richard Edlund and Dennis Muren. He won his first Oscar for ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" at the 1981 in the category of Best Visual Effects. Which he shared his award with Richard Edlund, Kit West and Joe Johnston. He got one more Oscar nomination, at the 1982 for the film ""Poltergeist"", which lost to ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"". He has worked on nearly 50 films"
"""In Search of America"". His first major role came in the 1971 film ""The Last Picture Show"", for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He co-starred in the 1972 critically acclaimed neo-noir boxing film ""Fat City"", directed by John Huston. He was nominated again for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film ""Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"". In 1976, he starred as the protagonist Jack Prescott in the first remake of ""King Kong"", opposite Jessica Lange. This film was a commercial success, earning $90 million worldwide, more than triple"
"Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times: 4 wins 3 wins 2 wins The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times: 5 nominations 4 nominations 3 nominations 2 nominations British Academy Television Award for Best Actor ""'1970 Edward Woodward in ""Callan"" ""'1971 Keith Michell in ""The Six Wives of Henry VIII"" ""'1972 John Le Mesurier in ""Traitor"" ""'1973 Anthony Hopkins in ""War and Peace"" ""'1974 Frank Finlay in ""The Adventures of Don Quixote""; ""Candide""; ""The Death of Adolf Hitler"" ""'1975 Peter Barkworth in ""Crown Matrimonial"" ""'1976 John Hurt in ""The Naked Civil"
"4th Academy Awards The 4th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened released between August 1, 1930, and July 31, 1931, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. At the ceremony, nine-year-old Jackie Cooper, nominated for Best Actor in ""Skippy"", fell asleep on the shoulder of Best Actress nominee Marie Dressler. When Dressler was announced as the winner, Cooper had to be eased onto his mother’s lap. ""Cimarron"" was the first Western to win Best Picture, and would remain the only one to do so for 59 years (until ""Dances with Wolves"" won in 1991). It"
"Batman"" (1977, voiced by Lennie Weinrib) and """" (1985, voiced by Frank Welker). A darker version of the Joker (played by Jack Nicholson) made his film debut in 1989's ""Batman"", which earned over $400 million at the worldwide box office. The role was a defining performance in Nicholson's career and was considered to overshadow Batman's, with film critic Roger Ebert saying that the audience must sometimes remind themselves not to root for the Joker. ""Batman""s success led to the 1992 television series, """". Voiced by Mark Hamill, the Joker retained the darker tone of the comics in stories acceptable for"
"in total $4.4m to make. The film was met with heavy critical acclaim; Roger Ebert said: Ebert would later put the film on his ""Great Movies"" list. A.D. Murphy of ""Variety"" wrote a mixed review as well, as did Vincent Canby: Writing in ""The New York Times"": The film opened with original music by composer Jack Nitzsche, featuring an eerie bowed saw (performed by Robert Armstrong) and wine glasses. On the score, reviewer Steven McDonald: The film went on to win the ""Big Five"" Academy Awards at the 48th Oscar ceremony. These include the Best Actor for Jack Nicholson, Best"
"best film, stating ""what Brooks manages to do with [the characters] as they struggle mightily to connect with one another is funny, painful, beautiful, and basically truthful—a triumph for everyone involved."" It also ranked 140 in ""Empire"" 2008 list of ""The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time"". Brooks cast Jack Nicholson in both ""Terms of Endearment"" and ""As Good as It Gets"" with the actor taking an Academy Award for each role. Brooks did not direct and write a film again for seven years until 2004's ""Spanglish"". Filming took six months, ending in June with three days of additional filming"
"of Oklahoma, was the first Western to win an Academy Award as Best Picture. Ruggles followed this success with the light comedy ""No Man of Her Own"" (1932) with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, the comedy ""I'm No Angel"" (1933) with Mae West and Cary Grant, ""College Humor"" (1933) with Bing Crosby, and ""Bolero"" (1934) with George Raft and Carole Lombard. He teamed with the Rank Organisation in 1946 to produce and direct ""London Town"" with Sid Field and Petula Clark, based on a story he wrote. The film — British cinema's first attempt at a Technicolor musical extravaganza —"
"Nearly five decades later, he won his sixth Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play with a revival of ""Death of a Salesman"" in 2012. During his career he directed or produced more than twenty-five Broadway plays. In 1966, Warner Brothers invited Nichols to direct his first film, ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"", starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The groundbreaking and acclaimed film led critics to declare Nichols the ""new Orson Welles"". The film garnered 13 Academy Award nominations, winning five. It was also a box office hit and became the number 1 film of 1966. His next"