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Jack Nicholson (b. 1937)

Alias:
Jack Joseph Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson
John Joseph Nicholson
Τζακ Νίκολσον
Τζακ Τζόζεφ Νίκολσον
جاك نيكلسون
แจ็ก นิโคลสัน
ジャック・ニコルソン
傑克·尼克遜
杰克·尼科尔森
잭 니컬슨
잭 니콜슨

Birthplace:
Manhattan, New York, USA

Born:
April 22, 1937

Biography from TheMovieDB

John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an 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. He has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1983 film 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, in chronological order, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Reds, Terms of Endearment, Batman, A Few Good Men, As Good as It Gets, About Schmidt, Something's Gotta Give and The Departed.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Nicholson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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American Film Institute (AFI)
1994 AFI Life Achievement Award

Film Performances

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Film Production

Director:
1963  The Terror
1971  Drive, He Said
1978  Goin' South
1990  The Two Jakes

Producer:
1963  The Terror
1966  Ride in the Whirlwind
1966  The Shooting
1968  Head
1971  Drive, He Said
1978  Goin' South
1990  The Two Jakes

Screenplay:
1963  The Terror
1963  Thunder Island
1964  Cordillera
1966  Ride in the Whirlwind
1966  The Shooting
1968  Head
1971  Drive, He Said
1978  Goin' South
1990  The Two Jakes

Thanks:
1963  The Terror
1963  Thunder Island
1964  Cordillera
1966  Ride in the Whirlwind
1966  The Shooting
1968  Head
1971  Drive, He Said
1978  Goin' South
1990  The Two Jakes
2007  Into the Wild

Writer:
1963  The Terror
1963  Thunder Island
1964  Cordillera
1964  Flight to Fury
1966  Ride in the Whirlwind
1966  The Shooting
1967  The Trip
1968  Head
1971  Drive, He Said
1978  Goin' South
1990  The Two Jakes
2007  Into the Wild

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TV Performances

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  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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