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
Jack Nicholson "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