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
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association at their annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. 2000: Russell Crowe – "Gladiator" as Maximus Decimus Meridius † 2001: Russell Crowe – "A Beautiful Mind" as John Nash ‡ 2002: Daniel Day-Lewis – "Gangs of New York" as William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting ‡ (TIE) / Jack Nicholson – "About Schmidt" as Warren Schmidt ‡ (TIE) 2003: Sean Penn – "Mystic River" as Jimmy Markum †