Jack Nicholson 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
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film) fails to harmonise the revised characterisation of Brick with the author's original conception." The film received six Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Newman), Best Actress (Taylor), Best Director (Brooks), Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, and Best Cinematography, Color (William Daniels). "Cat" may have been too controversial for the Academy voters; the film eventually didn't win any Oscars and the Best Picture award went to "Gigi", another Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, that year. Ives won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Big Country" at the same ceremony. The film was a hit with audiences. According to