Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a retired American actor, film director, producer and writer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson has been nominated for Academy Awards 12 times, winning Best Actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Gets, and Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment. He is tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a male actor (three), and second to Katharine Hepburn for most acting wins overall (four). He is also one of only two actors nominated for an Academy Award for acting (either lead or supporting) in every decade from the 1960s to 2000s (the other one being Michael Caine). He has won seven Golden Globe Awards, and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. In 1994, he became one of the youngest actors to be awarded the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Notable films in which he has starred include, Easy Rider, Chinatown, The Shining, Reds, Batman, A Few Good Men, About Schmidt, Something's Gotta Give, and The Departed.
143 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 143
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Dr. Kildare
1961
Matinee Theater
1955
The Shining
1980
Hawaiian Eye
1959
The Oscars
1953
Sea Hunt
1958
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975
The Departed
2006
Goldene Kamera
1984
Film '72
1971
Bronco
1958
Basketball: A Love Story
2018
Batman
1989
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
Mr. Lucky
1959
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978
A Few Good Men
1992
Mars Attacks!
1996
Chinatown
1974
Anger Management
2003
As Good as It Gets
1997
Not Necessarily the News
1983
Something's Gotta Give
2003
Easy Rider
1969
The Bucket List
2007
Nudes in the News
2002
The Witches of Eastwick
1987
Wolf
1994
Terms of Endearment
1983
Heartburn
1986
About Schmidt
2002
My Spy Family
2007
The Last Detail
1973
Reds
1981
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
How Do You Know
2010
The Pledge
2001
Broadcast News
1987
Ironweed
1987
Tommy
1975
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
I'm Still Here
2010
America | A Tribute to Heroes
2001
Hoffa
1992
Breakdown: 1975
2025
The Two Jakes
1990
Five Easy Pieces
1970
The Crossing Guard
1995
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
Joker: Put on a Happy Face
2020
Close Up
2012
Carnal Knowledge
1971
Blood and Wine
1996
The Passenger
1975
Prizzi's Honor
1985
Notes on an American Film Director at Work
2008
Targets
1968
The Little Shop of Horrors
1960
The Last Tycoon
1976
Live Aid
1985
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
2022
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
The Terror
1963
Untold: Deal with the Devil
2021
Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight
2008
The Movie Orgy
1968
The Raven
1963
Goin' South
1978
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1970
Corman's World
2011
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
Ride in the Whirlwind
1966
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008
The Shooting
1966
Head
1968
The Border
1982
The Missouri Breaks
1976
40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic
2020
Junket Whore
1998
The Evening Star
1996
The Fortune
1975
Drive, He Said
1971
The King of Marvin Gardens
1972
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986
Ensign Pulver
1964
The Making of '...And God Spoke'
1994
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
2002
Psych-Out
1968
I Am Divine
2014
Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
2005
Hells Angels on Wheels
1967
Creepy Classics
1987
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020
Making 'The Shining'
1980
A Safe Place
1971
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
Man Trouble
1992
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
2007
Too Soon to Love
1960
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party
1999
Mansfield 66/67
2017
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
2012
Little Amy
1962
The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped
1995
Jack Nicholson - The Devilish Smile of Hollywood
2017
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
2010
Rebel Rousers
1970
Cry Baby Killer
1958
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015
2017
Velocity
1999
The Wild Ride
1960
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
2010
Jack of Three Trades: In Focus on Nicholson the Director
2024
Flight to Fury
1964
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007
On the tracks of a filmmaker
1988
Stardust
2010
The Hour of St. Francis
1962
Mulholland Drive - Ein Hollywood-Mythos
2010
The Broken Land
1962
The Rolling Stones: Stripped
1995
Back Door to Hell
1964
Witness to 'Reds'
2006
Soul Searching in 'Five Easy Pieces'
2010
Little Amy
1962
Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age
1971
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
1987
Films to Die For
2025
Studs Lonigan
1960
Rabbit Ears - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump
1987
The Elephant's Child
1986
Drive, He Said: A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom
2010