Jack Nicholson 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
Traveller (1997 film) Traveller (1997 film) Traveller is a 1997 American crime drama film directed by Jack N. Green and starring Bill Paxton, Mark Wahlberg and Julianna Margulies. The plot centers on a man joining a group of nomadic con artists in rural North Carolina. "Traveller" received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 79% based on reviews from 28 critics, with an average rating of 6.4/10. "Traveller" was released on DVD on July 25, 2000. Irish Traveller – nomadic or itinerant people of Irish origin living in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States