Jackson was nominated for Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for the film "One Week". He won the award on April 12, 2010. He held and hosted the satirical Pacey-Con in 2010, directly across the street from the San Diego Comic-Con, sporting a bowling shirt and giving out fan fiction, written by "Dawson's Creek" fans, to those waiting in the Comic-Con entrance line. Footage of the event was recorded for a video, entitled 'Pacey-Con', which he was filming for Will Ferrell's Funny or Die celebrity humor website. In 2013 Jackson appeared in the IFC film "Inescapable" with Marisa Tomei and Alexander Siddig. Jackson wrote the first story from the comic book trilogy "Beyond the Fringe", titled "Peter and the Machine". Jackson starred in the successful Showtime television show, "The Affair", where he played Cole Lockhart, the protagonist husband of the unfaithful Alison Lockhart.